Not that I'm really surprised. . .
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9859346/Goodell-conditionally-reinstates-Vick-to-NFL?GT1=39002
Three teams have already said they don't want him (Atlanta, the Giants, and the Jets). Wonder which team is going to be stupid enough to sign him? My money's on Detroit.
Posted 2 years ago by Bellantara #
Somebody will sign him - everybody likes making money. For every one person who says they'll boycott, ten more will watch/go to the games just out of curiousity. And if he comes back and is still the player he was before his arrest and incarceration, people will forgive and forget. We are a nation of people with very short memories. Unfortunately.
Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
You're right, HM. People have appallingly short memories, and even shorter attention spans.
Posted 2 years ago by Bellantara #
I totally agr......hey look, it's shiny!!!!!
Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
LOL!!!
Posted 2 years ago by Bellantara #
I really hope more teams choose ethics over money, but I'm not holding my breath!
Posted 2 years ago by KYKAT 12 23 #
Sadly KYKAT they won't. Just about everybody has a price.
Posted 2 years ago by HuddysMama #
Well, I could get run out of Texas for saying this, but he would be a good match for the Dallas Cowboys. Most of them are convicted felons and they are a team without any detectable ethics.
Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
And Dallas let T.O. go, so they have a sizeable ego gap to fill. . .
Posted 2 years ago by Bellantara #
WWM, lol, so true!
I used to enjoy watching pro football, even had season tickets to the SD Chargers for a couple of years back in the mid '80's, but now I don't even care.... Seems it's more about money and building lavish stadiums at public expense than about the sport itself.
*thinks to self, 'but, if we had a pro team in San Antonio....'* ;-)
I don't care where he goes I will not watch that team--even if it means boycotting my own beloved Steelers whom I love with all my heart. Most may forgive and forget. I can forgive but I will not forget the hundreds of dogs that lost their lives because of him. I will never forget what a dog ring like his did to my Irish Setter. I will never forget that phone call and what had to be done.
I posted this yesterday and I stand behind what I say--people forget if they are allowed to forget. The memory of a bloody carcass of a dog should be scalded into the mind of every NFL team and I promise they would NEVER hire him!
I really don't give a cr*p whether he served his time and is now rehabilitated! I am a football fan, and I can promise I will NEVER watch a game he may participate in. He made his choice to dog fight for 6 years! He killed animals for sport. Any team he goes to I would yell at the top of my lungs get out or our stadium. He has NEVER apologized with any type of meaning. And I promise you if he could he would still be fighting with his dogs today. These dog fighters by the way are known to steal dogs right out of yards to use to train their dogs. My Nina, a purebread Irish Setter show dog was taken from our yard. The police found her. They called the house. My mother was so distraught she put me on the phone. I got to here her injuries. The vet that the police had with them was choked up. A farmer that was there shot my dog so she wouldn't hurt anymore. The vet said she would have bled out in less than 30 minute. Either way these creatures stole my dog and put it in a pen with a pitbull. An Irish Setter and a Pitbull--guess who had the advantage. She NEVER stood a chance. She was literally ripped apart. The people who took her got 6 months in jail and then probation. These people that dog fight have absolutely no thought to animals--they are just disposable. It is sick. I would love to rub a little scent on Mr. Vick and introduce him to a group of his dogs after they haven't been fed properly--see what happens to him. The ASPCA is being far more Christian than I fear I will ever be.
Soxsmom, I am so sorry about your Nina {{{hugs Nina & Soxsmom}}}. I can't say anything unfluffy about Mr. Vick.
Posted 2 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Soxmom, my profound sympathies. How utterly evil, utterly cruel, utterly sickening and heartbreaking.
Not only did Michael Vick serve far too little time for his brutish crime, he should have been barred from all participation in any fashion from all sports for life. Instead he is reinstated.
But I'm not surprised. After all, the St. Louis Rams still have a player, Leonard Little, who drove drunk, ran a red light and killed a woman in 1998. The Rams never even benched him and he got off with 3 months in jail, 1000 hours community service, and 4 years probation. In 2005 he was caught speeding while driving drunk but avoided being charged as a persistent DUI offender. Wonder how many more innocent people he eventually has to kill driving drunk before he's considered a persistent menace?
As long as the public supports teams by buying tickets and watching play even when those teams sign and keep players who break the law, especially in ways that harm other people and/or animals, then the teams will find it more expedient to settle for politcally correct press releases than not to hire and play these scoff laws.
As someone who has lost a family member to a drunk driver and had several family and friends injured by drunk drivers, I have zero tolerance and angry disdain for those who drive drunk and excuse drunk drivers.
I won't watch Rams football since they think it more important how Leonard Little can play ball than how he is a killer. I won't watch Cardinals baseball, what with the team manager being a repeat drunk driver with no consequences.
Maybe I can't change the world but I certainly do not have to give my personal support of teams that employ such people as Michael Vick or Leonard Little.
Am I unfluffly? YES, darned unfluffly when it comes to killer drunks and creeps like Michael Vick who get their jollies out of torturing animals.
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