Former Pittsburgh Steelers WR Hines Ward not happy over growing powers of NFL chief – NFL News
Hines Ward, former National Football League (NFL) player-turned analyst, says the players do not have another alternative to getting themselves disciplined under the growing powers of NFL’s commissioner, Roger Goodell.
Hines retired from the league as a Steeler earlier this year after being let go by the team due to their salary expense, which was well above the cap level.
Initially, he pleaded to the management to give him another opportunity and offered to get his financial terms redone, but sensing there was no avail he showed determination to move elsewhere, thinking he still had football left in him.
He eventually came to the realisation that his day had come and he called it quits from the professional career, entire with Steelers.
About three months to the retirement, he became a football analyst, commenting on different aspects of the game on radio and television.
In a recent radio talk, he commented on the ongoing issue of the bounty scam unearthed by the NFL during a review of the New Orleans Saints and said the players have surrendered themselves to the league's chief by agreeing to the new collective
bargaining agreement (CBA).
He went on to claim that the bounty system has always been a part of the American professional football but since the commissioner has assumed greater powers under the CBA the players stand exposed to his so-called disciplinary actions.
A section of media has cited his quote from WFNZ Radio talk on The Mack Attack Show and it reads as:
“I think it went n throughout the league, but at the same time it’s uncalled for. The teams, such as the Saints, yes, it may have been that everybody was doing it, but they are the ones who got put on tape in the playoff game, and of course,
Brett Favre. You don’t want to add extra incentive to go out there to hurt somebody, our game is already violent as it is. And then to go out there and be proud collecting money on trying take food off someone’s table, that’s uncalled for.”
Interestingly, while accepting it was always there he has called bounty wrong. However, he did not mention it even once during his career spread over more than a decade.
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