Vick dog fighting thing
For some reason, I am totally engrossed in the whole Michael Vick dogfighting news. I don't watch the NFL, don't follow it at all. As of April this year, I had never heard of Michael Vick, I even mentioned a coworker that he likely wasn't getting paid much, and was probably some noone who was a second string defensive line person. As the story progressed from the spring when his house was searched, etc, I discovered not only that he was a highly paid quarterback, but maybe the highest paid one, with endorsement deals with many commercial companies. First pick of first round of 2001 season.
And I revelled in reading the news. I think the appeal was my strong feelings about animal rights, as well as my joy in seeing some person with a chip on his shoulder, with previously displayed arrogance towards the public and arrogance about how he was above it all, to be caught in such lies. He lied directly to the NFL Commissioner's face!!! I recall seeing a video clip of some of his friends last spring laughing about the waste of time the police spent trying to arrest someone for the prevalent non-crime of dog fighting. How they thought dog fighting was so commonplace, it was so ludicrous for the police to think that dogfighting was any kind of a valid reason to arrest anyone. I want those two guys to be investigated too by the NFL.
The Washington Post summed up Vick's chances wonderfully in the following article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082001879.html
Like most people who are arrogant but not particularly smart, Vick
overplayed his hand. To get back into pro football -- and there's
no guarantee -- Vick is going to have to repeatedly and
convincingly demonstrate a level of humility I doubt he's felt a
single day in his life.
And I revelled in reading the news. I think the appeal was my strong feelings about animal rights, as well as my joy in seeing some person with a chip on his shoulder, with previously displayed arrogance towards the public and arrogance about how he was above it all, to be caught in such lies. He lied directly to the NFL Commissioner's face!!! I recall seeing a video clip of some of his friends last spring laughing about the waste of time the police spent trying to arrest someone for the prevalent non-crime of dog fighting. How they thought dog fighting was so commonplace, it was so ludicrous for the police to think that dogfighting was any kind of a valid reason to arrest anyone. I want those two guys to be investigated too by the NFL.
The Washington Post summed up Vick's chances wonderfully in the following article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082001879.html
Like most people who are arrogant but not particularly smart, Vick
overplayed his hand. To get back into pro football -- and there's
no guarantee -- Vick is going to have to repeatedly and
convincingly demonstrate a level of humility I doubt he's felt a
single day in his life.