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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