Its also getting ripped to shreds at The Sporting News NFL forum.
For good reason, btw.
As I noted there, I’m tired of Deion’s ‘pimp with good intentions’ schtick too.
Finally, the NFL is doing something right for once!
Let’s see, who has come out in support of Vick on the heinous animal crimes so far?
Emmitt Smith
Deion Sanders
Michael Irvin
The NAACP
Their backing of Vick the dog torturer speaks volumes about their character, or more accurately, their lack of it.
On the first day that this story was in the news, I head an ESPN football analyst say that Vick is a spokesman for the NFL dog fighting subculture. Spokesman might not have been his exact word, but he definitely did say “NFL dog fighting subculture.” I haven’t heard any more about this since that day, but I suspect there is a story waiting for an investigative journalist.
Does anybody have the spiked column? Deion wasn’t too shy about going to bat for Vick last week. I don’t see what he could have said this week that was more out there than that.
Does anybody have the spiked column? Deion wasn’t too shy about going to bat for Vick last week. I don’t see what he could have said this week that was more out there than that.
If Vick is found guilty of a crime then toss his butt in jail, if he’s found guilty then he’s free to live his life...all this crap in the media, as justified as it may be in some respects, is wrong if we believe in the fundamnetal fairness of our judicial process. I don’t care if the defendent is Scooter Libby, William Jefferson - Democrat Lousianna, Bill Clinton, or Michael Vick - this media circus about pending criminal prosecutions is the modern version of scandal sheets - and about as helpful.
What is especially annoying to me about this Vick issue is that it’s distracting attention from such issues as the growing good news from Iraq, the immigration/border security issue that is far from dead, tax issues, and a who host of substantial things far more important than Vick and his alleged offenses.
I can think of many things that should be done to this scum of the earth; but I can’t say them here.
If they're going to change the victim in the story, at least keep the offenses the same. Why don't they ask themselves,
"If he had kept women chained in a kennel, brutally trained them to kill other women, starving some, then forced them to fight in a ring while he and his friends bet money on the outcome, killing the losers of the fight by shooting them in the head, beating them to death, slamming their bodies off the ground, kicking them, or electrocuting them, would he be in this much trouble?"
He didn't just "beat his dog". Not enough attention is paid to the abuse of women by some athletes, but it's just not quite the same thing.