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Michael Vick

reviewed by irishgit

Michael Vick was drafted out of Virginia Tech by the Atlanta Falcons. To rate Michael Vick, click the big yellow "Rate It!" button in the middle of the page.

irishgit
05/22/2009

Michael Vick 4

As far as Im concerned, if the guy can still play, and a team thinks he can help them, he should be given a shot. He did the time for the crime, he is doing some work with the SPCA, and there are a lot of players in many sports who have done worse and been reinstated.

I know our modern sensibilities places a crime against dogs ahead of a crime against humans, but I have never bought into that. When you have players who have committed vehicular homicide driving drunk, who are reinstated to their sport after serving their sentence, you cannot reasonably argue against Vick.

And frankly, if the NFL is priggish enough to ban him, I for one would welcome him to try the CFL. The team in my town could use him.

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Gris commented 185 days ago.
(Edited 185 days ago)
I don't think those players who commit Vehicular Homicide should get to play either. If you can't live with the Consequences of your actions, then you should make better decisions.

Wiseguy commented 185 days ago.
Gris, If you commit Vehicular Homicide, you’re saying you don’t have a right to make a living for the rest of your life?

irishgit commented 185 days ago.
Personally, I see no reason to ban a player for a crime committed outside the sport unless there are aggravating circumstances. If the time is served, its served. The League should be in the business of enforcing its own rules, not acting as some kind of moral exemplar which clearly it is not. I am not referring simply to players, nor simply to football, but when major sports leagues allow convicted felons to own teams, or accept money from corporate fraudsters, or turn a blind eye to cheating, they have no moral high ground to stand on.

irishgit commented 185 days ago.
Yeah, and what Wise said too.

Gris commented 185 days ago.
What I do for a living and what they do for a Living is completely different. I am not a role model to Anybody, except maybe my own kids. In this Society we tend to make idols out of our Celebrities, it's awful, but its true. We do so out of our Evolutionary pressures acting on a Tribal group of Protohumans instilled in us an instinctive need to listen to authority figures. (Copied from Discovery.com) So doing what an Authority figure tells us is wired into our brains. The problem is that we’ve confused “famous” with “authority.” Since that is the case, I think we should hold them to a higher standard.
I also believe that they have a much higher quality of life than you or I. If I were to go to prison, I think it would be much harder for me to find a good job. These stars go to Prison and they go back to their Glamorous Lifestyles, drinking Cristal out of a hookers shoe. (Or Whatever it is that rich people do)
And Git, you are absolutely correct when you speak of the Corruption in Sports leagues, etc. But I think that is also my point. We glamorize violent lifestyles.
I just think that we should not.

irishgit commented 185 days ago.
I do not disagree that we should not, Gris. But I suggest that is a problem with society as a whole. And further, I think that the days of holding up athletes as role models is fading fast. I do some coaching of youth athletes and I have heard eight year olds ripping on Clemens or Vick or Lewis.

Gris commented 185 days ago.
Don't get me wrong, I understood the point you were trying to make. I think that it is a valid point. I just happen to disagree.
And you are also right on the count that it is a Societal problem, not necessarily an NFL problem. But unfortunately, its there, it exists.

Gris commented 185 days ago.
As Git pointed out, maybe they are not these Days, there are far better people to emulate. The lifestyles of such people are far more boring though. :-)
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