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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