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Tagliabue vacates Bountygate suspensions

Then-NFL COO Roger Goodell, left, and then-NFL commissioner

Photo credit: AP, 2006

In a stunning turn of events, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has vacated the suspensions of four players – Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove – who were involved in the Saints’ alleged bounty program that the NFL believes ran from  2009-11.

Tagliabue, who was appointed by current commissioner Roger Goodell  to hear the appeal, said in a statement...

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