I do consider it an improvement over
“I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I’ll make an exception for him!”
and
“He should be raped in prison. HAW HAW HAW.”
Maybe MV should be gang raped and killed by some old fighting Pit Bulls? After he losses his job of course…
As a Louisville Cardinals fan, I can’t say I feel too bad for new Atlanta coach Bobby Petrino. He could have been preparing for another year with a soaring program featuring a Heisman-worthy quarterback. But he ditched all that, and now he gets to put up with this shit. Goody for him.
I guess its too late for him to do a Billy Donovan? 
I’m not agreeing with them, but I think a lot of people who take that position (on the Dope and elsewhere) see it as “he had a lot of things other people don’t get a chance at – big money, stardom, etc. and threw away on something that was avoidable.”
Actually, I do kind of think that way.
Speaking of regrets, I imagine the Falcons are really regretting trading highly-regarded backup QB Matt Schaub back in March.
Anybody want to take any guesses as to how long Vick has a contract with Nike? It seems to me that Nike is in ‘option weighing’ mode.
That is very true. And U of L fans also remember the younger Vick brother stomping on one of their players. Falcons' QB Vick defends his troubled brother - ESPN So they aren’t likely to feel too bad for Michael Vick and his family’s troubles either.
Vick is 27, so it’s not just the time, it’s that it’s time right in the athletic peak of hsi career.
He won’t get the max, though, so he has a chance to resurrect a career, if he’s smart enough to do a big public mea culpa.
I’m not so sure I’d want him back. The reason I wasn’t more inflamed about losing Petrino is that he, for all of his coaching abilities, displayed a SERIOUS case of wandering eye during his four years at Louisville. He dallied with a couple of colleges. He dallied with the Oakland Raiders. And THEN, after making a big deal about signing a 10-year contract meant to assuage all of the people who were fed up with his previous dalliances, he goes and bolts for the Falcons.
Losing a coach of his caliber is never fun, exactly, but his I-have-other-places-to-be attitude took a lot of the sting away.
I was looking forward to hearing " Who Let The Dogs Out "in every away game . The people can bark when he snaps. We could have such fun. Creative signs would be everywhere. Good TV.
Too bad his “Ron Mexico” identity has already been burned - he could have used it to make his comeback.
Doubt it. After, say, two years in the clink his speed will be gone.
Is someone going to bring him back as a starter? Not freaking likely, without his best (if not only) athletic asset. As a veteran backup? You’re not going to want to take the PR grief to get as a backup QB a guy who has always had an attitude and a questionable work ethic.
He probably never takes another NFL snap.
Does anybody know why no one connected with the investigation (or the media coverage of same) has brought up the possibility of federal charges of tax evasion? IANAL, but it seems strange to me given that Vick has already been charged with conspiracy and a RICO indictment may well be in the immediate offing… and that he’s alleged to have been financially involved with the dogfighting.
Also, what’s the threshold sensitivity of the NFL employees’ conduct code re. sports betting? Is it any amount of illegal sports gambling, a certain dollar amount for otherwise legal betting for anything but football, etc.? Is there anything like a zero-tolerance policy for sports gambling when the arena itself is illegal, as in dogfighting or cockfighting – even though it couldn’t present a conflict of interest with their own sport?
Does anyone know if the salary cap situation would be eliminated if he were hypthetically kicked out of the league?
Byrd is still a powerful foe.It probably takes longer to come up with sufficient proof on this than it does to bring charges for the dog fighting charges. And I’m sure a conviction on these first charges will bolster the tax evasion charge.
Yeah, it is the same thing. How many people convicted of child molestation are working in the same fields they were pre-arrest? Losing your job is a consequence of doing time for a crime that is abhorrant to the vast majority of the population. Computer hackers seem to be the only people who can turn their criminal convictions into a plus on their resumes.
Vick has shown time and time again that he feels his athletic ability places him above the law and makes him better than the rest of us. You may not see it in other parts of the country, but the media here, in his hometown, have reported on his shennaigans since he was in high school. The man is arrogant beyond belief, a thug and a punk, and adds nothing positive to the world. If he wasn’t caught in this dog fighting case now, it would have been something more heinous later on.
No, that is too good for him, and inflicts further unnecessary cruelty on those poor dogs.
I think he should be chained up and beaten and starved and poked with sticks and isolated, then made to fight, and soaked and electrocuted if he isn’t game enough.
That reminded me of a similar column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Richard Jewell, in the wake of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
One might have hoped the AJC had learned its lesson about trying to lead the lynch mob.
Let me guess - you’re a Falcon season ticket holder?