Give him a few years
The National Football League has finally spoken, and handed an indefinite suspension for Michael Vick, an overrated football player caught up in the sordid underworld of dogfighting. The press is saying now that his current dilemma may prevent him ever from returning to his job as a football player. That's good. Despite the bullshit coming out of places like the NAACP, this bastard needs to show some remorse, and if he doesn't, he needs to go away for a long time and be separated from society. We don't need you, Michael. Go fuck yourself. You made your reality, and now I hope you soak in it. Let your legacy be that of a chew toy for dogs.
Cop a plea, salvage a career. Boycott the stupid NFL
Michael Vick's other co-abusers have copped plea deals with the Government, leaving the Atlanta Falcons quarterback out on a very lonely limb, facing federal charges and a superceding indictment on RICO offenses early next week. So what does he do? Negotiate concurrently with the Feds and the NFL to salvage his career.
The NFL should sever all ties with this criminal now. To pussy around with anything else reduces whatever credibility the league had to nothing.
Check out the utter hypocrisy of this from the Atlanta Constitution Journal:
Atlanta lawyer Dan Meachum, a member of Vick's defense team, declined to comment Tuesday on any possible negotiations."I stand by Michael Vick, " Meachum said. "He's a good kid in a bad situation. I'm a dog owner, a dog lover. I would not be involved in this case if I didn't believe in him."
Money talks and bullshit walks. Who's money is making you make such ridiculous statements, Mr. Meachum?
Emmitt Smith is an idiot
Here's another NFL player, this time retired Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith, displaying his ignorance while making a speech at an awards ceremony. Nice show of support for torturing and killing animals, you turd. First we had the moron Clinton Portis stick his foot in his very large mouth, and now Smith.
From Sports Illustrated (comments from the original author included):
"He's the biggest fish in the whole doggone pond right now, so they're putting the squeeze on him [Vick] to get to everyone else. Now, granted he might have been to a dogfight a time or two, maybe five times, maybe 20 times, may have bet some money, but he's not the one you're after. He's just the one who's going to take the fall -- publicly.'' -- All-time NFL rushing leader Emmitt Smith, speaking Saturday at his enshrinement in the College Football Hall of Fame.Two issues here.
1. Nice to see Emmitt knows so much about the federal government's case. Didn't anyone ever tell him, "When there's an important issue out there, give an educated opinion if you have a good idea what you're talking about. If you're not sure what you're talking about, the only thing you can do by opening your mouth is look like you're 11 years old.''
2. It sounds very much like Smith empathizes with Vick's plight and doesn't find it very objectionable that Vick might have put a few bucks down on dogfights. Is he serious? Is there anything justifiable about Vick going to a single dogfight, or gambling a dime on a dogfight? Should the feds, once they had evidence from four corroborating witnesses that placed Vick in the middle of one dogfight after another, have ignored the evidence and not gone after him?
I have a bad feeling about Smith's tenure at ESPN, and it hasn't even started. His comments on Vick are so idiotic and inappropriate that a few people at the Worldwide Leader have to be thinking, "Uh-oh. What if we've gone and hired someone who's very famous but not very smart?''
The NFL does nothing to punish animal abusing criminals
Faced with virtually universal condemnation, disgust, and outrage, The NFL should have immediately kicked Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick out of the league for allegedly participating in an interstate dogfighting operation. However, they continue to waffle around, obviously more concerned about litigation and revenue than making a firm statement condeming the actions of Vick and his associates.
Consider this statistic put forth by Johnette Howard in Newsday:
If you do some simple math, the eight dogs that Vick and his cohorts are accused of executing are just the start of the casualties. Would NFL commissioner Roger Goodell change his mind and discipline Vick if he realized that most, if not all, of the 66 dogs seized when law enforcement officials raided Vick's rural Virginia property also will have to be euthanized because of their fight training?Combined with 37 carcasses that authorities have been told are buried on the property, that means as many as 111 dogs -- a staggering number -- may have died or will perish because of what Vick and his pals allegedly thought of as "sport."
And that death toll has nothing to do with whether Vick is ever convicted.
The NFL's wishy-washy stance is echoed by a statement released Arthur Blank, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, courtesy of the New York Times:
“This is an emotionally charged and complicated matter,” Blank’s statement said. “There are a wide range of interests and legal issues that need to be carefully considered as we move ahead, including our need to respect the due process that Michael is entitled to. Also, this situation affects everyone — our club, our players and associates, our sponsors, our fans and the Atlanta community among them — so we must consider all of our customers in making any decisions."
One would think that your club, players, associates, sponsors, fans, and the Atlanta community are pretty much disgusted and horrified at the allegations against Vick, and are united in the belief that this person does not deserve to flaunt his criminal behavior by prancing around on a football field and being paid millions of dollars.
Boycott the NFL
Now that a federal grand jury has indicted NFL quarterback Michael Vick and three co-conspirators for multiple felony counts involving barbaric activities such as running a criminal dogfighting enterprise and committing other unspeakable acts of cruelty to animals, it should be obvious that hyped-up, overpaid, and over-rated "professional atheletes" such as Vick have no place in our society. If the allegations against Vick and his "crew" prove to be true, they shoud all face the maximum penalty associated with their crimes. Vick should be immediately suspended from the National Football League, and the League's failure to do so quickly and resoundingly sends a message that they do not care, are too afraid of lawsuits, and actually condone the reprehensible behavior that Vick and his associates have allegedly committed.
I challenge all who read this to send a strong message to the NFL by engaging in a complete and total boycott of all of their products, teams and the rest of their multibillion dollar enterprise unless they quickly make a stand, condemn this behavior, and begin the process of severing all ties with Vick.