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Appeals in Saints ‘bounty’ Case to Be Heard Thursday by Goodell

All par­ties who appealed their pun­ish­ments in the New Orleans Saints’ “bounty” scan­dal will have their cases heard Thurs­day at NFL head­quar­ters in New York, mul­ti­ple sources said and the league later confirmed.

NFL Com­mis­sioner Roger Good­ell will lis­ten to appeals from the Saints ($ 500,000 fine, two lost draft picks), coach Sean Pay­ton (sus­pen­sion for the 2012 sea­son), gen­eral man­ager Mickey Loomis (eight-game sus­pen­sion) and assis­tant head coach Joe Vitt (six-game sus­pen­sion), accord­ing to league spokesman Greg Aiello. For­mer Saints defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Gregg Williams, now with the St. Louis Rams, didn’t appeal his indef­i­nite suspension.

Good­ell, who will hear and rule on the appeals, has said he hopes to expe­dite the process. There is lit­tle thought any dis­ci­pline would be reduced, but the appeals process could buy all par­ties more time to chart their futures while pun­ish­ment is being administered.

Pay­ton has spo­ken to his old boss, for­mer Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Par­cells, about pos­si­bly tak­ing over the Saints while he is suspended.

The NFL has yet to rule on the 22 to 27 play­ers cited in the bounty scan­dal, but dis­ci­pline could be meted out in the near future. NFL secu­rity and league offi­cials met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the NFL Play­ers Asso­ci­a­tion on Mon­day to go over evidence.

Good­ell said he hopes to receive a rec­om­men­da­tion from NFLPA exec­u­tive direc­tor DeMau­rice Smith regard­ing player dis­ci­pline before rul­ing. How­ever, NFLPA sources said Smith might not offer coun­sel on punishment.

Good­ell has sole author­ity to pun­ish players.

Accord­ing to the league, Saints line­backer Jonathan Vilma offered $ 10,000 to any New Orleans player who side­lined Min­nesota Vikings quar­ter­back Brett Favre dur­ing the NFC Cham­pi­onship Game in the 2009 sea­son. No other play­ers involved have been pub­licly iden­ti­fied by the NFL.

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