Vick update (PFT)

Once he's in prison it seems like a great chance for the third remake of "The Longest Yard" doesn't it?

 

I don't think anyone (here) is taking his side. My comments were more from the ESPN stuff I was seeing as I typed about how if Vick reforms in prison, this could be a great come back story if he can get back in the NFL someday.

As to the wife abuse issue, I'm not elevating one crime over the other and child abuse would beat both anyway. But I think the focus for many is that in the past, animal abuse was either ignored long ago because they were possessions, or even of late, a minor crime. Since so many view pets as family members, they want to see animal abuse (and dog fighting is way over board) handled more severely. I know that not all animal abusers would hurt a human, but at the same time it does show a concerning lack of respect for "life".

As to influence by friends, I call B.S. It may have gotten him in to the field originally, but from what's been said thus far, sounds like at some point (killing the dogs with his own hand) he was an eager participant. I had a lot of drug/drinking friends when I was young and impressionable, but I never went either path - not even experimenting. Choices - we ALL have them.

 

wtf?

so if, say, an auto mechanic is arrested and convicted of robbery and sentenced to three years in prison, he shouldn't be hired back as a mechanic until three years after he's released?

 

If he was a lawyer, he'd be dis-barred.

 

Nope but an auto mechanic isn't being paid millions to represent not only a team, but a publicly visible organization on a national/world level.

 

He wouldn't be given the job of Mr Goodwrench. Ever. No matter how good a mechanic he might have been.

 

that's pretty lame. this guy is probably going to jail for a year. when (if) he does come back, he'll make considerably less than he was making before this. he'll be the object of public scorn probably for the rest of his life (definitely throughout his career).

Leonard Little can get drunk and kill a bitch, and he gets 90 days and four years probabation (not to mention a fat contract extension last fall).

Explain again how Vick deserves the punishment you've suggested.

 

the Feds are going after Vick. Feds don't get involved unless its something they perceive as major. Vick is allegedly involved in the killing of dogs, running a dog fighting outfit, and gambling on dogfighting, several times across state lines. While killing the dogs might be the least of those offenses (I don't think so, but that's just me), the gambling across state lines is the biggie. That's is something the Feds don't partuicularly like, considering they passed a rider on the Safe Ports Act of 2006 that effectively closed up many ways for people to fund online poker accounts. They shut them all down, but it is a lot harder than it used to be. And that form of online gaming is taking place over the net.

Also, Little committed his offenses under a different commissioner. Tagliabue wasn't the iron-handed guy Goodell is. Vick is, in a word, efffed.

 

A better question is, why the hell didn't Little get what he should've had coming?

 

who knows? look, I'm all for Michael Vick getting his just reward, but it's dogs and gambling we're talking about. If a guy can get drunk and kill someone and get 90 days, Vick shouldn't have to spend a day in jail. I realize that the law allows for it, but that doesn't make it right. same applies to punishment meted out by the NF-fucking-L. Vick's NFL-applied suspension should be less than whatever Little served.


BY the way, I can't stand Vick, but it's obvious those jumping on the Lynch Vick bandwagon are doing so because it eliminates some of the competition in the NFC south. no one gives a flying fuck about those dogs, really.