And Greg Couch adds some more names to the BountyGate victim list...

Greg Couch weighs in with his views on the suspensions, but it's one innocuous statement he makes at the end which supports my contention that there should be no "New Orleans Saints" in next year's National Football League.

(And if Drew Brees doesn't like it, he can understand that his Vince Lombardi Trophy is bathed in bounty blood.)

"The Saints’ bounties are now being connected, or just suspected, in so many injuries. To Brett Favre. To Kurt Warner. To Adrian Peterson. To Jay Cutler.

To Peyton Manning."

I've already noted Warner, Favre, and Manning.

Jay Cutler: Can't find any clip of it.

But the big one here is Adrian Peterson. I make reference to three of the best quarterbacks of this era -- you'd be hard pressed to say that AP, when he's healthy (and that has been an issue!), is the best running back in the game.

I think the one they may be talking about is a hit in a 2011 game with the Redskins, as a "creation of the culture" motif. A deliberate shot to the knee and lower leg by a Redskins defender (Christian Ponder was eliminated for a while with a helmet-to-helmet concussion in the same game.).

The fact is that there is an open desire to maim people out there in the NFL, and I don't think it will be able to be changed without the elimination of football. (It's too entrenched in our culture, so don't get your hopes up...)