Saints Players To Get $40,000 Bonuses At Year's End

[Rome]

Saints players to receive $40,000 bonuses  Daily News Wire Services

New Orleans Saints players will get a $40,000 bonus from the NFL and the NFL Players Association for "performing under unusual and unanticipated conditions arising from the Hurricane Katrina tragedy."

The bonus applies to every Saints player who has been on the roster for the entire season, including inactive players, practice-squad members and those on injured reserve, the team said yesterday in a statement. Players on the roster for less than the full season will receive $2,350 for each week on the roster.

The payments will be funded using the performance-based pay system normally geared to playing time and salary, which is part of the NFL collective-bargaining agreement.

[MDS]

how about they give some more money to people who dont have any place to live?

[Wingspan]

i mean really...what did the NFL itself donate to the relief? a million?

thats like me donating a dollar.

[Butchers Bill]

how about they give some more money to people who dont have any place to live?

I agree 100%  $40 grand times, what 55 or so players (not sure who qualifies) is $2.2 million.  That could probably house 30-40 families.

[T_Section224]

seriously, giving money to people who have a place to live, an income stream, and probably don't even live in the area that caused them "unusual and unanticipated conditions " is not even common sense.

[Rome]

Wah...  the players deserve it so shut the farg up.

Whiny liberal nancies.

[Feva]

That is pretty weak on the NFL's part to give more money to the players than to the people who lost everything down in the Hurricane.  I would hope that a lot of the Saints players themselves would go ahead and pass that money along to the true victims down there.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Or to the people who work for the organization who don't make $2M a year already.

Like the secretary's, ticket people, ushers, etc.

[hbionic]

i mean really...what did the NFL itself donate to the relief? a million?

thats like me donating a dollar.

And every dollar counts!

[MURP]

I dont see the problem.  The NFL is simply taking care of its own product, which is their JOB.  They gave a million bucks to the relief effort.  Who is to judge when enough is enough?  Should the NFL set aside 50 million bucks for any disaster that comes up so they can dish out funds?