jerry glanville is the head coach. he's over there on the sideline all in black.n was linebacker for the houston oilers at the time. short set on me. his job was to put me out of the game. and he came -- as i come through the ball, my head is down. i'm still trying to regain balance about five yards down the field. and all i feel is a helmet in my rib cage. and i go flying the other way ten yards. i'm decleated. >> reporter: dazed and confused, andersen had to be helped off the field. and that's exactly what the oilers wanted, according to the long-time kicker. andersen says the player who targeted him was the oilers' walter johnson. and when the two eventually became teammates two years later, that johnson confirmed there was a bounty on andersen in the 1987 game. >> one of the first things i asked walter was, hey, why did you do that, man? he said, you know, i was told to do it. i said, what do you mean? he said, they gave me $1,000 and they told me to do it. i feared for my job. >> reporter: walter johnson wouldn't talk to cnn. but he did talk to his hometown s

. >> reporter: coach jerry glanville told the boston globe a year after the anderson hit that when you'vehat good, you've got to figure a way of making him less effective. he missed two kicks, so i guess it worked. like johnson, glanville turned down our request for an interview, but in an e-mail denied johnson was paid any money, adding, at no time did we ever have a bounty on anybody in the history of my coaching career. never happened. never did. i keep hearing from a lot of people out there, they don't understand, what's the big deal? >> because the nfl players pride themselves on being such a fraternity. when we get together on sunday, boy, we go at each other's throats, but we're all brothers. i don't know any other fraternity where somebody tries to knock out and break the leg of one of his brothers. or do whatever to one of his brothers. it's just -- it's over the top. it's wrong. >> reporter: so wrong in the eyes of nfl commissioner roger goodell that he's dropped the hammer on the new orleans saints for their bounty system. the commissioner suspended head coach sean payton for a