Bonus Pay For The Saints

The NFL is giving $40,000 bonuses to all players on the New Orleans Saints as compensation for their great suffering due to hurricane Katrina. These poor millionaire football players had to play all their games on the road this year because of damage to the Super Dome.

Bless their hearts. $40,000 hardly seems fitting for enduring such great emotional trauma and stress. I hope that this small token of appreciation somehow eases their pain.

The NFL should be giving $40,000 to every fan of the New Orleans Saints for having to endure 4 decades of horrible football.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- 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 Wednesday 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.

Following Hurricane Katrina in August, the Saints moved to San Antonio and have played most of their home games in the Alamodome and Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.