{"id":14474,"date":"2012-05-10T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14474"},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:50:16","slug":"jonathan-vilma-appeals-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14474","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Vilma  Appeals Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS\u00a0 \u2014 Saints linebacker, <strong>Jonathan Vilma<\/strong> has appealed his season-long suspension under the NFL\u2019s bounty investigation, which named him as a ringleader of the cash-for-hits system.<\/p>\n<p>In papers filed Monday, <strong>Vilma<\/strong> argues that <strong>Commissioner Roger Goodell<\/strong> should not hear the appeal and asks for a delay in the process until the matter of who should decide on it has been settled through NFL Players Association grievances filed last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vilma\u2019s<\/strong> appeal states the NFL has not presented evidence linking him to a system in which players were paid to injure opponents. It asks the league to provide documentation, including witness statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS\u00a0 \u2014 Saints linebacker, Jonathan Vilma has appealed his season-long suspension under the NFL\u2019s bounty investigation, which named him as a ringleader of the cash-for-hits system. In papers filed Monday, Vilma argues that Commissioner Roger Goodell should not hear the appeal and asks for a delay in the process until the matter of who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}