N.f.l. Suspends Four Players For Saints’ Bounties

Jonathan Vilma, the team’s defensive captain, was suspended without pay for the coming season; Cleveland’s Scott Fujita, Green Bay’s Anthony Hargrove; and New Orleans’s Will Smith received lesser penalties.

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