He did the crime and did the time. So, what is next in Michael Vicks future?
If you were curled up under a rock, have no access to cable television, or you have never seen CNN a day in your life, Michael Vick is a former NFL player of the Atlanta Falcons and was Indicted in the summer of 2007 for running illegal dog fights.
Along with being sentenced for two years in prison, not jail but prison people, Vick also lost/missed out on an estimated $100 Million in breaking his contract and dropped endoursments. It was reported that throughout his entire dog fighting operation Vick grossed a whopping $28,000. But by gones are by gones and the day of his release from prison is nearing, and a decision on what is in store for Vick's future in the NFL will be made sooner than later.
According to Gene Wojciechowski, senior editor for ESPN magazine, there are a couple possibilities that Vick is going to have to learn to live with.
First and foremost, we will never again see number 7 play in red and black for the Atlanta Falcons. so the Flacons will either trades him or cut him. Seeing that any team who picks up Vick right now will also be enheriting a contract with almost 45 million left on it, a trade is safe to call imposible. Vick is expected to be released from prison by July and the Falcons will most likely cut him by the end of the summer.
Now to me if i am a general manager of a team this is great news to my ears. This means that i can pick up michael Vick for a quarter of what he is worth, like bargain shopping. Even if you pick him up and put throw him as the second string qb, you still have one hell of a second string now dont you. Hell the man is so fast that you can put him as tail back, wide reciever, slot, and special teams to return kicks. He is extreamly athlectic and versitle. The only downfall is that he hasn't trained for the NFL in over a year and he will be 29 years old this year, but for the price that you will be able to sign him for once the Falcons cut him at the end of the year will be well worth it.
And just for the record for those who think he still has a chance in Atlanta, they picked up qb Matt Ryan in the 3rd overall pick in the draft last year. I think they are going to take there chances with Ryan.
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I agree that Vick should get a second chance. I also think that he got into dog fighting to give friends a job more than to hurt and kill dogs. What he did was wrong, but he didn't think it was wrong at the time he did it. He grew up in a culture that celebrated it. He paid his price.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I think he needs to be on a Pac-man short leash. One mistake, and he should be out for life.
I understand the entertainment value that Michael Vick gives to the world of football fans, but how many actually stop to wonder why we would want to support a horrible person just for entertainment value? Does it really go back to the thought that humans love a good car wreck? Because I can understand the car wreck theory usually, but it rips me apart to think of what kind of mindset a human being would need to be in to do what Vick has done. Without remorse might I add. This man has the mindset of a murderer, a love for the violent affect of slow painful death. Just because we don't give living, breathing, feeling, animals the same rights as living, breathing, feeling, humans who act like animals, who else would not think this man deserves to be ripped apart by dogs. I want anyone who can look at what he did without hatred to think about their pet and then close their eyes and imagine every limb being viciously pulled off. Once it hits home it's not so easy to forget. Yet, we let Vick into our homes on tv to watch with our kids every day. What kind of role model are we choosing? Do you really want our kids to look at the cool guy scoring goals and cheer even though that cool guy is going to go home and let two animals tear each other apart literally?”
ReplyDeleteI think you are right that Vick is done in Atlanta. I think we'll be in Oakland, Detroit, Minnesota or Chicago. But, like Barry Bonds, he might get "locked" out of the game. While I agree that he has done his time and paid his dues, many Americans do not. Whatever team signs him to a second chance will face a serious media backlash.
ReplyDelete@actnaturally11--this is (only) 1/2 in jest--football equates to little more than watching 22 animals tear each other apart. And we love it. Look, I'm not defending dog fighting, but there's plenty of other cultural practices that involve stuff waaaay worse than dog fighting (ever been to a slaughterhouse?). Vick and his associates tortured animals, and that is wrong. That's what he went to prison for.
Fighting animals is a cultural rift between America and other cultures. We hunt animals, we kill animals, but we don't fight them for sport. All I would insinuate is that that's a line in the sand. He crossed the line. He paid his time. But I don't think it represents the incorrigible evil that comes without remorse.