Yes, it was wrong. But he didn’t kill a person and people need let it go.
I knew the Carolina Panthers weren’t going to sign Vick because Charlotte is a punk ass city. Yeah, I said it.
Charlotte is the only place where people love dogs more than they love people. Hit a woman, you may go to jail, abuse a dog and you WILL go to jail.
But the NFL needs to realize, PETA doesn’t football tickets. Real football fans want to see their team win. Philly is a good fit for Vick. I’m sure those rowdy fans in the city of brotherly love just want to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl, something the Panthers will never do as long as Jake Delhomme is the quarterback.
CNN reports that Vick once again apologized for his involvement in dog fight:
“I think everybody deserves a second chance,” Vick said at a news conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday. “Now I want to be part of the solution and not the problem.”The league suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in Virginia.
Vick, 29, was freed from federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on May 20 and returned to his Virginia home to serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement.
“Everything that happened at that point in my life was wrong,” Vick said of his involvement with the dogfighting ring.
“I had to reach a turning point. Prison definitely did it for me,” he said.
He’s sorry, so let the man play football and let the dog jokes rest.
This article appears in Aug 11-18, 2009.
He killed 8 defenseless dogs by hanging, electrocution and one by slamming it on the ground. He denied all of this until the indictment broke… and lied to the public and the commisioner. His “remorse” was coached. You cant go from killing defenselees domesticated animals to remorsefull citizen overnight… or in 2 years. Playing in the NFL should be a privledge. He should be free to work. An 8-5 job… but not in the NFL.
This is probably one of the worst blogs (grammatically and content wise) I have ever read.
Have you been to Charlotte? You’re demonizing PETA why?
Sounds like the writer is a ignorant, faceless, and useless “journalist”. You’re argument is based on nothing but personal bias and bogus claims.
Well, there you go. You stated in your blog, “Yes, it was wrong. But he didn’t kill a person and people need let it go”.
The problem with this notion is this: It differentiates the life of an animal from a human life. As if animals — in this case abused dogs — are less in value than ours is to us.
What makes anyone, especially Vick, rise above the natural laws? Is it that we are so mesmerized by glamorous athletes that we allow ourselves to condone this animalistic behavior?
This guy is not a hunter. He did not kill for sustenance: he killed for the enjoyment of killing AND profited by it.
It’s good to know Vick has a job when so many people (the fans) who pay his salary are losing their homes and jobs. I think the team’s sponsors should be boycotted until Vick is sent packing and will have to get a real job.
He may have served his time, but he’s still a dog killer.
No one in the United States kills for sustenance anymore. All hunters kill for the enjoyment. I live in the south and have yet to meet a hunter who didn’t enjoy hunting(killing).There are towns where I live that let there kids out of school at the beginning of dear season.Those kids aren’t hunting for survival.
Thank goodness most people in the educated world don’t think the way this dangerously-foolish blogger does. I don’t need to add much to what’s already been written in response—I’m just thankful there are so many who value life…ALL life.
Cheris, You should do some homework b/4 you report. Unfortunately the laws here, as in many states, do NOT protect dogs/animals and many people who abuse, kill or neglect get a simple slap on the wrist (i.e. probation). Do you also understand that there is a DIRECT link to people who abuse animals – to people who abuse people. Yes, one typically leads to the other @ some point. Also, do all of us Charlotteans a HUGE favor and get the f**k outta here if we are indeed such a punk @ss city… and don’t let the door hit’cha on your way out.
There’s a difference between a lion hunting its prey and a man strangling, electrocuting and torturing animals. Not to mention forcing them to engage in dogfighting. Some people just don’t get it—and sadly never will.
I thought that PETA was some kind of flat bread? The others only appear to care for animals. What about the football players getting hurt? Hmmm? This Vick should be banned for life from playing sports for what he did to dogs. I don’t care how good he is/was. He knew what he was doing to those dogs. Sickening.
A wise man once said that we will be judged by how we treat the least among us. If said wise man sees how many of us treat those least among us – animals, poor, sick, elderly – I don’t think the judgment will be favorable.
It may appear that people are valuing animal lives over that of people lives, but the fact is we must be vociferous in speaking out for those – in this case, animals – who can’t speak for themselves.
As for “hitting a woman and you may go to jail, kill a dog and you will,” there are a shitload of cases where animals have been abused/neglected/killed and the perps did no time or got slap on the wrist probation. Not to mention the animals that are abused and neglected out here daily and no one knows about it or knows and does nothing to or is powerless to stop it.
These animal cruelty cases may seem trivial but if we call ourselves a civilized society, they do matter and should be taken seriously. That’s the problem. So-called trivial criminal activity gets a slap on the wrist which is no deterrent to prevent others from engaging in the activity. Further, animal abusers often progress to abuse against people. Those with cavalier attitudes towards animal abuse and neglect quite often exhibit who gives a fuck attitudes towards other things in their lives, such as sexual relationships, friendships, and the world condition in general.
Yes, Vick has paid his debt to society but that doesn’t mean we should all run out and buy his jersey. The test will come as the years progress to see if Vick is truly sorry for and understands the horror of his actions – or if he’s just saying the right things so he can snag that big assed NFL check.
Never said Vick should be poverty-stricken. What I said was, what he did is not something that can be simply overlooked—it was sadistic cruelty and it’s frightening that people can overlook that because his violence was aimed at an animal rather than a person. I’m not going to give a written speech on animal rights, but dear man, once again, you cannot compare an instinct of a creature (aka: the whales and seals—as terrible as that scene may be to witness…and I agree, it is) with the conscious decision of man to inflict unthinkable cruelty on another being.
And now… signing off… best to all of you.
I dont even think he should have been charged with a crime. Dogs are private property. we kill cows, race horses to their death, kill chickens, kill deer, moose for sport and no one says a word.
Most peta supporters support abortion too.
Let the man move on liberals.
“But the NFL needs to realize, PETA doesn’t football tickets.”
Did you forget something there. It seems like something critical is missing. Oh, I know! It’s a VERB.
The amusing part about this is that this functionally illiterate joke refers to herself as an “author”. The sad part is that she demonstrates just how morally bankrupt she is by suggesting that not killing, “a person,” makes everything okay. But hey, Cheris, if you think, “Charlotte is a punk ass city,” then stay the hell out of it. Personally, I believe Jerry Richardson wouldn’t consider Vick because he has class, although I realize that’s probably a foreign concept to the likes of you.
I seriously hope Creative Loafing isn’t PAYING these bloggers for such worthless content. Is ad revenue so low that they can’t afford actual writers?
“I dont even think…”
You could have just stopped right there, Lucas.
this author is 1 dumb fuck…michael vick is a nasty nigger who should die
Well, the best of both worlds is having the option for either approach in a sports game…
Once humans needed meat, leather & fur. Now they don’t. That’s all.
It will take a long time for the tradition to wind down because most decent people have refused to allow themselves to think about the vast amount of suffering it causes.
People who are not decent actually enjoy brutality. People who are clearly shown the hideous results of brutality and are not moved –that is a chilling category unto itself.
To unearth this apparently broad sociopathic vein in our culture certainly explains a lot about the condition of the world. Imagine: for more than two thousand years there have been those few who believed that people could learn compassion and that the world might become civilized!