Obligatory Michael Vick Comment
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Since this is a site talking about the NFL, and the Bengals play the Falcons next week, we need to make our obligatory Michael Vick dogfighting comment. I think the NFL is thankful that PETA is a very vocal political group and that today’s media has very little to do with journalism, and very much to do with violence, shock value and ratings. The media focus so far has been on PETA protests, showing video of random dogfights, and commenting on how divisive the case is racially. The story has the media’s two favorite ratings boosters, racial tension and violence. They real story is being missed here, and it has nothing to do with race, and very little with dogfighting. If anyone reporting the story actually read the indictment, they would see that the minor charge is dogfighting. The feds do not care or get involved in animal cruelty cases usually. The major charge is “conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities (“Travel Act”) to promote, manage, etc. a business enterprise involving gambling;”, legal jargon for running an interstate underground gambling ring. That charge is the feds bread and butter because of the ties to organized crime. In a sport whose popularity is driven by gambling, is it a good thing to have your marquee player involved in an underground gambling ring, be it dogfighting or anything else? And when I say the NFL is driven by gambling, how many people reading this blog pore over the injury reports weekly in order to set up your fantasy team? And all that effort is to win a league with a $50 buy in. Imagine the lengths high stakes gamblers in organized crime will go to in order to win NFL bets. Could these gamblers have been shoulder to shoulder with Vick at one of these dogfights? In light of the NBA referee scandal, how nervous do you think those in the NFL corporate offices are right now that some nosy reporter will start asking how involved Vick is in gambling and dogfighting’s ties to organized crime? I’m sure the NFL would much rather look out their office windows and see middle aged PETA housewives jumping up and down holding pictures of their labrador retrievers. 
3 Comments:
Give this person a beer! Although, as an animal lover, I am truly sickened by the dogfighting, the author is totally correct when he says the real problem is the gambling, as far as the NFL is concerned. This strikes at the very integrity of the game.
I hate dogs. I applaud Vick's courage in ridding us of these creatures. I hope he goes after cats next.
Mike Vick Aint That Bad
I'm sick and tired of hearing people hate all up on Mike Vick. For what I ask you? For what? I truly believe that if you really got down to the issues of what happened, you'd clearly see that he wasn't such a bad guy. What did he do really? So he got a house and started a kennel...I got a house and have some dogs. So he let his boys (all of them punk ass snitches mind you) stay at that house...my friends sleep over all the time. So he bred some dogs by facilitating dog rapes...I mean have you ever seen two dogs having sex...it's always rape. So he set up a few fights which were viscious and bloody...Don King did this and they made a movie about him...even got that dude that played Marcellus Wallace to be his ass. And so at the end of these fights Mike had to take some of the dogs that didn't do that well and throw them up against some walls and shock them a little and drown them a bit...can someone say mercy killing...please. The bottom line is this: Despite what Mike Vick may have done, he never gave no dog herpes. That's right. He may have given plenty of women herpes, but never to a dog. This shows me that not only is Mike Vick a compassionate man, but he also has the ability to know when to say when and say "Hey assholes...enough is enough." So in the coming weeks, as the sentencing looms, the talking heads talk, and we audience members look onto the circus that this has become, I ask you this: If you were in Mike Vick's shoes (dope ass Nikes probably) and that dog was tied up to that rape stand, would you have had the ability not to have sex with it and subsequently give it herpes. That's what I thought. And until you can answer no to this question I suggest you think twice about condemning one Michael Vick. Thank you.
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