Sean Payton and Joe Vitt are repeat offenders...
Goodell made it go away last time, not so much this go around.
These guys are lucky they aren't in court for a wrongful termination lawsuit in regards to the medical trainer being fired. The fact that that story was never a huge issue is a feather in the cap of Goodell, I guess.
Bounty-gate is small peanuts compared to a head coach stealing and asking for pain killers on a regular basis.
My overall point to football enthusiasts who think this punishment is ridiculously harsh, is to point out what actually happened.
Goodell gets to come off looking like a hard-ass against the bounty program, and it looks like Payton is serving hard time for being the head coach. If Payton was clean and didn't need Goodell to prevent a court case from coming against the league, the punishment would have been severe but not nearly as bad.
Joe Vitt took a nasty punishment too, and he's involved in vicodin-gate too.