Forgive me if you’re a Mike Vick sympathizer, but I’m glad the judge wasn’t lenient. While I loved watching Vick, I’m a bleeding-heart for animal rights, and what he was involved in is one of the most disgusting affairs I could conceive. His NFL career is likely over. He’ll be in jail next season; and if he serves his entire sentence (I have to imagine that’s unlikely), he’d be in there for the start of 2009. Add an NFL suspension on top of that, and he’ll be available in 2009 or 2010. By then, the only team owner that’d likely give him a shot (Al Davis) will be in a retirement home or dead.
I’m mad at Vick not just for what he did, but for his stupidity. I doubted him coming out of college, but he won me over with his electrifying play. I’m pissed that I won’t get to watch him play in the NFL again, but I’m glad he got what he deserved. -Cyd Zeigler jr.
on Dec 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I agree with Cyd 100 percent. The Vick case reminds me of a similar scandal in equestrian sports some years ago, and the athlete in question found that he was dead in his sport when it was all over. Olympic jumper rider Barney Ward, who had been showered with accolades for years, was found to be involved in an insurance-fraud scheme. He had been helping heartless owners collect on highly insured horses by assisting them in stealthily electrocuting the horses in their stalls, so it looked like natural deaths from heart failure. As I remember, Ward got a cut of each insurance payment for his services. Well, guess what…Mr. Ward went to prison for insurance fraud, and when he got out, he found himself barred from horse shows for the rest of his life. The American Horse Show Assn. were so unforgiving that they wouldn’t even let him in the gate to see his own kid ride.
– Patricia Nell Warren
on Dec 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Vick got off lightly. I’m sure the criminals will all cry “racism”. A longer sentance would have been more approrpriate.
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Lady, Barney’s business was better than ever after his arrest. He’s feeling no pain. Site a better example and I will feel better about the law and its ability to deal with these people.
on Feb 11th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
And still is, I might add. see if you can get yourself invited over to his place in Palm Beach to see how badly it all worked out for him.