Mike Vick

Now I know most people don't think of Michael Dwayne Vick of as an Atlanta Falcon or even a professional football player but the reality is he is still on the reserved list. Of course he will either be traded (which is a way better business decision) or released to free agency considering the superstar quarterback position has been filled by 1st round draft pick and rookie of the year Matt Ryan. Now I think it's highly ironic that someone with the highest salary ever of an NFL player (until Albert Haynesworth recently) has become one of the most shunned athletes (not considering the many baseball players who can just apologize for the ultimate betrayal of MLB *cough cough Alex Rodriguez*) in recent history. To see how this transpired lets go back to April 25, 2007. The media finds out about Vick's 15-acre "slaughterhouse" and it becomes the biggest football scandal since Ray Lewis was indicted on murder (and became Super Bowl MVP the following year). It was found out that the quarterback(with the most rushing yards ever by a QB) was running a 6 year dog fighting kennel. Of course he lost all his endorsements before actually being convicted in true Chris Brown fashion and was ultimately sentenced to 23 months in federal prison. Now I'm not justifying his actions but lets also go back to around the same time when a "battered" woman shot her sleeping husband in the back and was acquitted. Even T.I., a 7-time felon' (who is my second favorite rapper) got one year in JAIL for possessing about 10 semi-automatic and automatic firearms. I guess what I'm saying is, coming from where I'm from, dog fighting is quite common and over looked as immoral and someone who may have had a similar lifestyle to mine may have been caught up in stupidity. Mike should be out of prison this summer and should at the worst be a free agent. Whatever team he may play for I hope he puts up the same or even better numbers than his prime years just as a screw you to PETA (and ASPCA).