587...Michael Vick Back In The NFL

Sort of.

Every news outlet in North America is reporting that former Atlanta Falcon's QB Michael Vick who has just finished a 23 month bit for being America's worst dog owner, is being reinstated by the NFL.

Of course in keeping with the plantation mentality of the NFL, doing federal prison time is not enough for Commissioner Roger Goodell. Mr. Vick will also have to sit out the first half dozen games or so of the NFL season, costing him and his future team millions of dollars.

As I previously said in Posts 312 and 327, if Mr. Vick had of killed a person, like Donte Stallworth and Leonard Little did, that malfeasance would have been merely a bump in the road that is his football career.

He did not kill a person. He was involved in dogicide. And in North America dogs are more important than people. If you don't believe, well, review the files of Messrs. Vick, Stallworth and Little and then get back to me.

It doesn't matter what callers to sports radio say: it is not a privilege to play in the NFL, the NBA, MLB, the NHL or any other professional sports league any more than it is a privilege for you to work where you work. It is a job, a career that is not benevolently granted but one they earn by honing their talents through years of practice. Professional athletes are workers just like you are a worker. The fact that you would do what they do for free is a non sequitor.

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323...Alluding To 312, If Vick Killed A Person

Michael Vick that is, the former Atlanta Falcon superstar quarterback who has spent a good chunk of his valuable career in jail and is still on indefinite suspension from the National Football League for his reprehensible involvement in the Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting case.

Mr. Vick was both indicted and convicted in Virginia on federal and state offenses involving the abuse, misuse and deaths of several dogs. He did real time, including a stretch in Leavenworth, Kansas, which has housed, among others, Machine Gun Kelly, Bugs Moran and Robert Stroud, the former Birdman of Alcatraz. Plus Mr. Vick has literally went from the Penthouse to the Jailhouse, filing for bankruptcy earlier this year.

Does the punishment fit the crime?

Perhaps.

But, and here is the rub, look at the case of Leonard Little, a current NFL player with St. Louis' Rams who killed a human being in 1998 while driving drunk and recieved 90 days in jail and an 8 game suspension from the NFL in 1999. In 2004 Mr. Little was arrested again for DUI and convicted of speeding yet recieved no suspension.

Or, rub again and look at the case of Donte Stallworth of the Cleveland Browns who killed a man in March of this year in Miami Beach, Florida and got 90 days in jail. No suspension yet.

I am not saying that Michael Vick got a bum rap, but, geez, years for messing with dogs, days for killing a human being, that is some serious bullsh't.

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