Vick, da Prick, IMO is Done- Goodell's letter is the dagger

[Bretsky]

I don't disagree one bit, but I bet more people know about Vick and his plea, than know that Coulee (spelling) guy was just sentenced to death for burying that little girl alive in Florida. My opinion is that with all the atrocities happening on a daily basis, Vick's is minor in comparison, but gets all the pub and has everyone calling for his head.

I agree with you 100% on this one

[Harlan Huckleby]

to change the subject slightly: I remember when Vick's brother Marcus got suspended for stomping on a player with his cleats. lets see if there isn't a pic....


Well, the pic doesn't show how nasty it was. It seems like there is a code on conduct in football that you don't cross that line. And the defender did nothing dirty.

I wander what sort of family produced these gents.

[Chubbyhubby]

How could anyone defend Vick? What he did was sick and that judge should throw the book at him and sentence him for the MAX of 5 years in prison!

[Merlin]

I think Swede hit it right on the head.

My personal thoughts are that anyone who breads dogs for fighting (regardless of the fight itself) is guilty of playing God. Sure, dogs fight. Are you aware why Pit Bulls get such a bad rap? It's because they are bread to become brain damaged. To do this they grow the dogs brain larger then their skull and makes the dog not a dog anymore. There are different ways to achieve this but the ends are basically the means: to create a fighting machine. To me it is inhumane to take any life form and alter it so it becomes a killing machine. The Nazi's did this in WWII and I am sure our government played around with it as well. That is a direct parallel. If you want to fight dogs fine, if you want to screw around with mother nature, you deserver what you get.

Micheal Vick lied, lied again, then lied some more. That can't be forgiven by anyone. He was too high profile of an individual and should have known better. Obviously he thinks his shit doesn't stink and he can do what he wants. Just because he doesn't fully admit it due to some legal verbiage doesn't mean it didn't happen. I hope he never plays another down in the NFL and I hope he doesn't make another cent off of his bloated career. He should rot in jail just like anyone else. If it was any of us we would get the book thrown at us and spend a lifetime paying off the fine. He can pay off the fine with his interest and probably won't spend a day in jail. CBS will probably hire him to be a sportscaster and we will have to listen to his drivel on the NFL for an eternity.

Already the "Poor Vick" mantra has started. I feel sorry for him in that respect. I would rather go out with some dignity in this world then a martyr for my misdeeds.

[the_idle_threat]

The coward who can't come clean

By Jeff Schultz
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 08/25/07

A coward to the end.

He won't directly say he killed dogs. He will admit to heading a group of degenerates when dogs were killed. Does somebody award points for semantics? "Ookie" tells "T" or "Q" or "P-Funk" to "Drown the dog," but he keeps his hands in his pockets. Is this the Vito Corleone defense?

A coward to the end.

. . .

What an incredibly stupid article.

Does the reporter believe ANYBODY would "bravely" step forward and say "eveything is my fault"---thereby accepting far harsher criminal penalties---just to appease the public? This is an idiotic article designed to capitalize on the case's notoriety.

Jeffrey Dahmer did. Admitted everything and explained it in detail.

Poor example.

This article excoriates Vick for failing to "take it like a man," admit that he did everything he's charged with, and accept whatever penalties follow.

Dahmer didn't do that, and I still maintain that nobody else would either.

Dahmer admitted and explained what he did, but not for the benefit of the public, or even for the purpose of throwing himself to the mercy of the courts. He did so in support of his insanity defense. He wanted to show that---although he did the things he was charged with---he did not have the understanding at the time that it was wrong for him to do them.

In any case, Dahmer wasn't a famous person (until he became famous for his crimes), so his situation is really not comparable to Vick's.

It seems to me that this author makes his haughty claim---that Vick should make a complete confession and accept the harshest criminal penalties--- primarily because Vick is famous and he owes it to the public. That is my take on his purported thesis. Again ... how stupid is that? It's easy for you, Mr. Schultz, to say this, considering you won't be spending 30 years in prison for it, rather than one or two.

Of course, I think the author's real aim is just to take some public shots at Vick (e.g. "coward!, coward!, coward!"), which is a waste of newsprint, bandwidth, etc. The guy sounds like he has an axe to grind. Maybe he lost some money on Vick's dogs.