Michael Vick has no tomorrow in the NFL
July 22, 2007 by James Edwards
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Michael Vick sporting the new forlorn look
He is done.
This is the proverbial stick a fork in him.
This is the all she wrote and the Fat Lady has sung.
Michael Vick should play no more.
Don’t give me “due process.” Look around you. Do you see a court of law? Do you see a judge, a jury, a lawyer, a bailiff? The NFL is not the U.S. judicial system, and for the sake of this argument, Michael Vick is not a defendant. He’s a football player who has been accused of something so serious, something so heinous, that the NFL cannot in good faith allow him to represent the most popular sports league in this country. source
Michael Vick should be given no special rights.
Don’t give me “innocent until proven guilty.” Michael Vick has no inalienable right to play football this season or any season for the Atlanta Falcons. Our colonial militia didn’t throw tea in the Boston Harbor so Michael Vick, some 230 years later, could play football for the Falcons.
NFL Football Tea Party factoid The Boston Tea Party was fought to, oddly enough, raise taxes. The English were forcing a tax on all other tea and not on English tea. This was forcing the merchants to sell English tea only to make a profit. So they threw the English tea in the harbor.
Your intrepid author has never received as venomous comments as those brought on by the Michael Vick dog killings. We tend to react stronger to the killing and abusing of dogs than we do humans.
As one friend of mine argued, we fans will chant for the return of a player that drinks, uses drugs, cavorts with known criminals, or attempts murder, but a dog slayer? Forget it!
NFL Football News Flash
July 26: Vick is scheduled to make his first court appearance on the day of the Falcons’ first training-camp practice. source
But maybe, just maybe, Michael Vick will get off? Did any of us consider that?
But he has been charged, and not just anywhere. He has been charged in federal court, and for those who don’t know what that means, let me tell you: It means Vick is almost certainly guilty. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 99 percent of the people indicted by the federal government between 2000 and 2005 were convicted.
Woah, baby, 99 percent conviction rate?
Let’s go back to stick a fork in him.
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There’s a reason the indictment was so detailed. Likely the prosecutors were sending a message to the NFL… this is what we intend to prove in court and there’s more here where that came from. Vick should ask the team for a leave of absence as everyone is suggesting just to attempt to preserve his income. And you can kiss that Nike contract goodbye too.
Why should he be allowed to take a “leave of absence”? Sit on his ass and collect milllions??? Suspend him until after the trial, then it won’t make a difference, because he’ll be in prison. HE’S the animal, not those poor creatures he executed!
James, I couldn’t believe most of the stuff I read in the federal documents. It seems the only thing that will keep him out of the big house is a plea bargain. Once that happens the NFL will suggest he find another career outside of the NFL. Hope Joey has a great year in Atlanta so we don’t have to hear about Michael and the dogs as their season falls apart.
“Paid leave of absence”???
Wait until Thursday. Camp opens for the Falcons. While the idiot is in court being arraigned, find him in breech of contract and cut him, without pay.
Why should the Falcons pay this jerk to stay away?
For the sake of argument, let’s ass-u-me he’s not guilty of being a “party to the crimes”. As an NFL player and “role model” (like it or not, our sports starts are role models), he has a responsibility to keep his image appropriate. The fact that he let himself be in a position to even be investigated, much less indicted is reason enough to sharpen the fork! (or maybe we should use the “dull spoon” of Robin Hood fame.)
Right on as usual, RockW
Mike Vick deserves a second chance playing in the NFL reguardless of what he has done, let the man change his image and pay for what he did. You Can’t Blame Everything On Him Because Of One Stupid Mistake, Everybody Is Not Perfect In This World And We All Have To Learn From Them. All I’m Saying Is That Give Vick A Chance And Stop Hating On Him Just Because He’s Famous