2009.07.27
Michael Vick reinstated by NFL
NEW YORK - Michael Vick was reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday and could play in regular season games as early as October.
Vick can immediately participate in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games - if he can find a team that will sign him. A number of teams have already said they would not.
Thoughts?
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I think the NFL has taken the right position in reinstating Michael Vick. He has admitted his wrong-doing and has paid the required price. He should be given the opportunity to redeem himself. However any major deviation from the law and professional obligations should not be tollerated in the future.
Comment by RAH — July 27, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Why does society glamorize everything bad and punish or ignore everything that is good? The man is a disgrace.
Comment by Doug — July 27, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
Leave the bum out of professional sports. He wrecklessly through away
what most of us can only dream about.
Comment by Mark — July 27, 2009 @ 6:41 pm
Vick has paid dearly for his crimes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Good luck to him.
Comment by Anon — July 27, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
I love animals, I love dogs, I love cats, you should not be involved in anything that hurts animals, but come on, He didn't Rape, he didn't murder (humans that is), he didn't go out and harm a child. Beamer says he's a good guy that made bad decisions and was hanging with the wrong crowd. Move on, Most NFL would like to have Vick but they just aren't honest enough to say it. I think the team that takes a shot will be rewarded because america likes a come back.
Comment by Golfman2 — July 28, 2009 @ 9:05 am
Doug how is society glamorizing this situation? what is glamorizing about someone doing 2 years of jail time and getting basically everything they had taken from them? Vick's reputation has been ruined and there is no glamour in that... the man did his time, paid his dues and apologized...animals are animals regardless and no one has anything to say about how hunters glamorize their ability to kill and mount an animal on their wall...HE MADE A MISTAKE get off his case please...if you are going to call him a disgrace for what he did u might as well say the same about everyone who has ever harmed ANY ANIMAL for something other than survival...I have and i will always be a Michael Vick fan and many others can agree, the bible says to forgive and people like you who refuse to make things harder for society....HE IS A HUMAN TOO!! LET HIM LIVE HIS LIFE...
Comment by Michael — July 28, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
I am an animal and sports fanatic.. Vick has lost everything b/c of this.. money, fame, endorsements, freedom and much more... They were animals-property.. his property to do with what he wanted I dont agree with fighting nor killing animals of any kind but he did it he paid the price and it was a hefty one.. he will never forget the mistakes he made and Im not truely convienced he did it the law and media wanted Vick to go down so ofcourse everyone is going to say he did it they wanted "the big fish" since it was his property he had to take the fall.. his so called family and friends couldnt wait to give him up b/c thats who everyone really wanted to g down 4 the crime... Im glad he's back in the NFL and a real team will pick him up.. they let other people back in for worst crimes then cruelty to animals... WELCOME BACK MIKE VICK!!!!
Comment by Amy — July 29, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
Say what you will, I don't trust anyone who would do that to an animal. That lack of respect for another life is not just a "bad choice".
Comment by Ken — July 30, 2009 @ 8:55 am
Vick gets 2yrs. in the can, Dante Stallworth only gets 30days for killing a human being while DUI, how screwed up is society. Yet you don't hear people screaming "throw the bum out" phrase at him. He's done his time and if signs with someone he should be able to play. Just as if any other person that gets out of prison and wants a job and someone is willing to hire them.
Comment by cws260 — August 3, 2009 @ 9:58 am
Michael,
Vick's job is not a white or blue collar job. His job was on the field and in front of the camera. This celebrity Job should not get a second chance to be back in the public eye. he did nowhere near 2 years of incarceration. Yes he made a mistake. he got caught, and for that he paid his dues and said he was sorry. He has made no statement of remorse or regret for his direct actions. only that he was caught.
Most of everyone including his dogs, have forgiven him. Forgiveness does not imply going back to where you were before you caught.
Vick participated in gambling, bankrolling that gambling and haneous cruelty directly with his own hand. I dont know about you, but seeing an animal suffer and put through agony for pleasure is quite different from hunting or butchering for food.
Dog fighting is pure selfish sadism the other deaths to animals you point out are for substance. No hunter or butcher takes pleasure or makes bets on the number of times it takes for their food to die.
To look at an creature suffer and take joy from it, is not a person i wish to see representing the sport i love. Football.
There are many injustices celebrities get away with. a DUI and murder comes to mind. These should be delt with tougher sentencing and with keeping these persons out of the public eye.
Comments and defending this guys actions to put him back on TV is Glamorizing this situation.
Basically people, such as yourself, state it is OK for a man to kill someone drunk, kill dogs for fun bank roll illegal gambling or rape women at bars due some time behind bars, and then go back on TV and make millions and be role models for all of us, because he made a mistake and did his time. how does it feel to sell your humanity to watch him play?
Comment by Ric — August 3, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
cws,
to equate the situations we would have had to had Vick driving drunk and accidentally hitting and killing a dog OR Stallworth forcing two humans to fight each other until one of them is dead...
Comment by Marked Man — August 17, 2009 @ 8:22 am