Number 11 gets my vote
A different viewpoint
If Vick was was pink, purple or green, the same uproar would be heard. In the 'real world' if certain rules are abused, if ethics in a company are ignored, the abuser finds him/herelf out of a job. Vick lied initially, not only to the courts, the media and public, but to his ultimate boss, the NFL. When his pals started talking Vick had these choices - keep up the lie or admit the truth. The NFL has some work to do in their hiring process on ethics.
Humans of all colors view the antics of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Nick Nolte, Larry Craig and myriad other 'famous' names and faces with various forms of disgust and misgiving. It's in our face every day. Why should Vick be viewed differently - because he isn't blonde or in his 60's?
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Word sister. The man lied and did so with absolutely no shame, and now he pleads forgiveness. Unfortunately, the NFL has a rep for letting the scumbags back, and I suspect that reflects a reality most football fans don't care to face: they like the violence doled out each weekend, no matter how sanitized it might be. Vick was a part of that, and so is every other player in the league who kept his job and career despite the basest, vilest allegations. The fans will forgive and forget so long as their blood lust is appeased. Anyone getting behind the notion of the NFL taking him back is probably reflecting a reality that I wish didn't exist.
Thanks Keris. Lied is the word.
I thought of Robert Blake, white and 60ish who allegedly shot and killed his wife...but was far away from the computer.
I never forgot when Green Bay Packer fans poisioning Dan Devine's dog when he went from college coaching at Mizzou college to the NFL. Too bad if the Packers crew couldn't take criticism, they didn't have a right to poison the dog and threaten Devine's family.
Got that right. I won't repeat my whole rant about the lack of ethics in professional sports, and football in particular.
This scumbag deserves the worst penalties that can be thrown at him. I feel the same about any scumbag who kills or rapes, regardless of his status when he is not committing violent crimes.
The lack of ethics in sports, particularly football, starts in high school.
Thinking about it, I remember the sports fixation of my high school in the late 60s. The top players were given unlimited passes for really atrocious behavior, and the coach of our champion team slept with female students and bragged about it. The sports coaches regularly bullied teachers in to giving Bs to failing sports "stars" who hardly even showed up for class. The gag point came in my senior year, when the football team decided that they hated "hippie freaks" and went on a hair-cutting rampage, seizing kids whose hair they thought was too long and cutting for them. Two player-thugs grabbed a very small girl and lopped off her glorious mane of thick, glossy black hair clear to her ears, and one long-haired boy who fought back got slashed in the face.
These boys were all white, from "good" homes, and highly thought of. Most were college bound, and some had top test scores and were taking demanding courses.
And none of them were punished for this, even though parents of some victimized parents sued the school board.
I had ABC news on this morning. Just as I was leaving, the view came on. Couldn't believe that Whoopie was jumping on the "It's the deep south culture, he didn't know any better bandwagon." The rest of the hosts with her.
Should every child from Nazi Germany get by with that lame excuse? We know in our gut when something we do is wrong.
There are two truths here. One is that dog fighting is a popular sport in the deep south. Two is that Christianity is deeply rooted in the deep south. I can't remember anywhere in the bible the quote, "Thow shalt not kill, unless it is a poor defenseless animal that cost you a $500 bet."
Then they played on his age and "How young he is!" I am sorry but if a ten year old hit's a car with a snowball and scares the driver so badly they swerve and loose control of the car, I might...MIGHT just believe that. But as a ten year old myself throwing snowballs at cars, I knew it was wrong.
Michael is old enough at 27 to understand right from wrong.
To that arguement, it was very much the culture of the old south to kill and burn black people. Should I be able to do the same today and counter with the arguement that "It was just my culture?"
I am so tired of black entertainers, the NAACP and prominent black religious and political entities, defending what he has done. If he was white, no one would have his back.
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