Actually, I have a son who is a soldier in the Army (I served in the Air Force, or Chair Force as my son calls it). What really gets me is that I would lose my job and not be eligible for rehire if I were convicted of any and I mean ANY felony. This guy gets what amounts to a slap on the wrist and is back making huge sums of money less than two years later? I will be rooting against the Eagles this year for the first time since before Ron Jawarski was their quaterback.
Love the Chair Force thing. Although tis the first time I heard of it.
Obviously I’m not arguing his sentence or even if he should be allowed to play football again. I didn’t know about losing jobs/rehire for a penalty but that was never the gist of any beef I had against Vick.
I made my point fairly graphically and of course I’m right. Heck I can administer shots to my dogs and surely he could have had someone just give them an overdose if he wanted them put down. Not justifying this either, and certainly not the “sport” of dog fighting, but maybe the dogs were too torn up or some such. They could have given the suffering dogs an overdose buried in a big plate of food for God’s sake.
This man wanted those dogs to suffer and more than anything I view him as evil. That stuff about felons, no job, worse punishment for dogs than humans isn’t the meat of my debate.
Although if you hold a gun to my head I’m thinking the league officials shouldn’t have re-hired the creep but then you’d have set a precedent and football players are not known far and wide for their pristine criminal records.
I’m all for allowing the fans to have the say on this one. As I hear it, Philadelphia fans are none too eager about this event and I’m thinking Philly fans are a right tough lot.
I think Vick will peter out to nothing. Because he is a nothing. Now he’s a two year in jail nothing and if other assessments on his talent are right, he was nothing to write home about when he was not a felon.
This is not about loving dogs more than humans and certainly we should put Chris Dodd in jail how’s that for a dumb argument?
But Vick is really an evil person, the very definition of evil. Freepers complain about sports players and how they feel they are above it all.
We shall see. He’s going to be a big nothing-burger and the entire NFL is going to look really dumb for even giving this guy a second chance.