Vick

I haven't voiced my stance on Michael Vick before now. Main reason is I really don't care about Michael Vick. I'm not a Falcons fan -- never was and never will be. When I first started watching football as a kid, I immediately became a Miami Dolphins fan but had such a fondness for the Dallas Cowboys that I'd root for Dallas as long as they weren't playing Miami. As I got older, that flipped around. But Dallas and Miami have always been my top two teams... same thing happened in the other sports too as #1 and #2 flipped but they always were the top two.

But the legal aspect of Vick is beyond sports. So people in the United States of America (not Nazi Germany no matter what Peta wants) are allowed their day in court. That is, until they decide to give up that right and plead guilty which Vick's attorneys have stated he will do now. But one thing I notice is plead guilty to what? Some of the charges to get a reduced sentence... all of the charges... what? So until he *ACTUALLY* does the plea in court there is still a bit of "let's wait and see" to this fiasco.

Here's the issue we can talk about for certain. Michael Vick is an idiot. Well, there is the whole issue of making a boatload of money ($130 million over 10 years with the Falcons plus the endorsement deals on top of that) and doing with it something that can take it all away in an instant. That qualifies as being an idiot alone. But let's talk about his "friends" a moment. Barry Bonds has a friend who didn't rat him out and sitting in jail right now. Michael Vick's so-called boys were ready to rat him out so fast, it was almost laughable. These guys are the type of guys who will say to a person from their neighborhood who gets on course like Vick to make a ton of money that dreaded saying: "Are you down with me?"

People who say that know they will never make it on their own merits (or lack thereof) and know they will never be anywhere but down -- down in the gutter. Word of advice, if anyone says that to you... RUN -- do not walk -- away from that person as fast as you can. The future that waits for someone who says that is either a prison sentence or an early time to take the eternal dirt nap aka riding in the subterranean bobsled aka pushing up daisies aka victim of the fourth horseman aka DEATH.

Michael Vick will be heading to jail for sure entering this plea. And good. He should be there and I hope he comes out realizing his mistakes (yeah, plural) and never repeat them again. And I hope that Peta can stop the picking and choosing who does wrong to animals. Why would I say that? Well, why isn't Peta jumping on those people who go into the woods to kill animals for sport? I think those who go in the woods with other guys to do that aren't just there for hunting though. People who do that must be there to re-enact Brokeback Mountain too. (yeah, I went there)

The funniest thing on the Vick that I saw though was a radio station in Atlanta selling the NEW Michael Vick jerseys. Get it at Michael Vick's NEXT jersey sold here.

Well, at least whatever prison he goes to, I'm sure he'll be picked first for the football games in the prison yard. #1 draft pick again for Michael Vick! Way to go, Mike! Sure those "friends" that swore they were your boys and "down" with you proved how far *THAT* goes -- NOWHERE.

My only thing that upsets me about this is -- how do I impose no Michael Vick in Madden 07? (don't own 08 yet) Other than that, Michael Vick going to prison makes me want to play Queen's Another One Bites the Dust for another fallen sports star.