Thoughts about Michael Vick

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1. bopst on July 28, 2009 9:12 AM said:

   He served his time, lost millions upon millions of dollars and has been universally shamed, scorned & vilified. I think it’s time to play football…
2. Coheed on July 28, 2009 10:38 AM said:

   Fuck Michael Vick.
3. bopst on July 28, 2009 11:22 AM said:

   If he plays (which he will) again, you can watch him get his ass beat every Sunday. A win/ win for everybody…
4. Scott Burger on July 28, 2009 11:50 AM said:

   I think it tells you something about the NFL’s standards that he is being allowed to play again.

   I bet they wish Vick just murdered another human instead of dogs- it would be easier for them to spin it and “rehabilitate” him as a sports star.
5. Ross Catrow on July 28, 2009 12:04 PM said:

   Picked up by a team by the end of next week, I say.

   Also how come no one talks about this:

   “Stallworth was charged with DUI and second degree manslaughter on April 1, 2009; he surrendered to police on April 2, 2009 and was released on $200,000 bail.[10] He pleaded guilty, and received a sentence of 30 days in jail, plus 1,000 hours of community service, 2 years of house arrest, and 8 years probation.[11] He has also received a life-time suspension of his driver’s license.[12]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donté_Stallworth#Manslaughter_charges
6. MattOnFire on July 28, 2009 12:24 PM said:

   He’s going to play. He’s going to be mediocre at best. He served his time for a horrible crime.
   Hopefully, he learned his lesson. Let him play football and let’s see if he can get through the rest of his career making positive choices. Not many people get a second chance, yet everyone deserves one.
7. B on July 28, 2009 1:41 PM said:

   i love Vick and i think he deserves a second chance. its just football, not congress.
8. bopst on July 28, 2009 1:57 PM said:

   I want Stallworth treatment the next time I kill somebody.
9. Liberty on July 28, 2009 3:44 PM said:

   we at animals for the ethical treatment of humans support Michael Vick, but he cant be alone with an animal.
10. chris elford on July 28, 2009 5:14 PM said:

    C’mon, if we all got jail time for dogfighting, RVA News would have no staff. In this economy I think if you need to make money you should be able to bet on which dog can outbite another, as well as run meth labs, operate a Rub-N-Tug out of your Sentra, or sell your roommate’s panties on a BBS board. As for his NFL career, I think he should become a wide receiver for the Lions, or maybe an analyst. If you have to point fingers, point them at Virginia Tech for turning him from a promising athlete into a money-hungry puppy wrangler! I think I am just saying what everyone else is thinking, and that means you, Woody Paige.
11. Rebecca on July 28, 2009 9:36 PM said:

    I think he’ll be picked up rather quickly. Bad publicity is still publicity for a dying team, and there are many.
12. Pace in YO Face on July 28, 2009 10:15 PM said:

    Of Course he should play football!!!!!!! He did his time!! Its not like he cheated at football!!! (like baseball players have been cheating at their game since the 90’s) He did a crime that was unrelated to football and he did his time as far as the justice system is concerned so he’s done enough….LET”S PLAY SOME FOOTBALL………STOP HATING!
13. Eric on July 29, 2009 9:20 AM said:

    Possible for one of these Richmond indoor leagues to pick him up???
14. tvnewsbadge on July 29, 2009 4:21 PM said:

    What Vick did was despicable, but football fans aren’t going to care.
    I’m sure most of them don’t think that what he did was even wrong.
    For football fans, the only sin is in losing.
15. Ry on July 29, 2009 10:19 PM said:

    1> there are no dying NFL teams. 2> He would go to USFL and then CFL waaaay before indoor football. 3> I can’t argue that football fans do care, but I don’t think the stereotype is justified. Even with his acts, some of us do believe in second chances. Be it on a field, a diamond, or a construction site. If you believe in rehabilitation I don’t think you can expect him to be banned from a profession.
16. mattwhite on July 30, 2009 9:13 AM said:

    vicktothepatriots.com
17. tvnewsbadge on July 30, 2009 10:09 AM said:

    Rightly or wrongly, people who have committed despicible acts like Mike Vick has done are “banned” from professions all the time and have to seek other ways of making a living.
    If I had done what he has done, it would be very unlikey I would ever get a job in my field again, and rigthly so.
    We just have a different standard when it comes to the entertainment/sports stars.
    As long as Vick can return to his winning ways, the fans won’t give squat what he has done.
    Only if he can’t, will they turn on him like a pack of those dogs he tortured adn killed.
18. Joss on July 30, 2009 2:14 PM said:

    He’ll never make it through probation.
19. Liberty on July 31, 2009 7:09 AM said:

    i think people want to seer him play so they can watch vick’s opponents take bone crushing shots at him on the field, the fans go wild!
20. Joss on July 31, 2009 8:33 AM said:

    “LET”S PLAY SOME FOOTBALL………STOP HATING!”

    Sorry, but I’m wired to hate low-life thugs. I also pity them. And I’d never, ever put one in a position where millions of kids might look up to them. That would be unethical.
21. Chris Farmer on August 12, 2009 11:39 AM said:

    boy am I late on this one. I posted my .02 recently:

    http://undrafteds.blogspot.com/2009/08/michael-vick-is-human-being-not-monster.html

    the dialogue that ensued was heated:

    http://www.facebook.com/farmermusic#/posted.php?id=522556042&share_id=114860156445&comments=1#s114860156445

    My summary analogy is this. If you are vacationing in say, Argentina, and you come across a crowd of people in the street dog or cock fighting, you might say to yourself “wow, this is an interesting aspect to this culture”. Here, people seem to want to keep punishing Vick over and over again. Double Standard.

    I do not advocate past heinous actions, but I do believe that compassion is more powerful and can bring about more good than continued rock pelting.
22. Gibbles T. Chimp on August 14, 2009 2:57 PM said:

    This:
    I do not advocate past heinous actions, but I do believe that compassion is more powerful and can bring about more good than continued rock pelting.