Michael Vick in NFL!

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He was signed by the Eagles. The man should have never been reinstated, and instead of that he siggns a $6.6 million contract. He should have to work a real job like the rest of us.
 
pnewton said:
I would have no problem if the NFL decides that it only wants people of high character to play to serve as role models for today’s youth. However, I have never seen that particular side of the NFL. Instead, they play football. The players at this time are not good models and should not be held up as examples to follow.

That’s what we have the Saints for.
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Oh you mean like Reggie Bush, yes you should not get a lazy penalty. 😛
 
CWBetts said:
He was signed by the Eagles. The man should have never been reinstated, and instead of that he siggns a $6.6 million contract. He should have to work a real job like the rest of us.
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As though football wasn’t a job.

Odd how those who insist on subjecting everyone to ‘diversity’ recoil in horror when actually confronted by anything veering from their tofu-latte sensibilities.

Some diversities fight animals. Roosters, bulls, dogs.
 
Sailor_Kenshin said:
As though football wasn’t a job.

Odd how those who insist on subjecting everyone to ‘diversity’ recoil in horror when actually confronted by anything veering from their tofu-latte sensibilities.

Some diversities fight animals. Roosters, bulls, dogs.
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The fact is he was in prison for committing a crime on the federal level. Moral of the story: Moral character has no value. The important thing is that you can throw a football.
 
joe_clark said:
My prediction is Michael Vick is done as a ball player. Any team who touches him will feel the wrath of the fans every time when he comes on to the field. I have no doubt someone will do something. Throw a tomato or worse. Boo for the entire game only when he comes out on to the field. This guy is a bum. You can take the man out of the hood, but he couldn’t help but to go back to that neighborhood of drugs and crime and create dog fights to the death. I believe the animal rights groups will swoop down on any team who touches him. PR will be a disaster. And finally, he needs to complete his duties without any mistakes. Vick will have a target painted on his jersey. The opposing team will think nothing a putting him in the hospital. The pressure will be too great on Vick and the team that reaches for this albatross. Vick is done. Word!👍
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Well lucky me. I live in the Philadelphia area and we won the Mike Vic jackpot. Jeff Laurie (owner) never wanted to win a championship. He was and will always be a businessman. Sell McNabb bobblehead dolls, programs and tee-shirts. As long as the people buy the tickets, they will not be champions. Now he picks up M. Vick where no other team would touch this third rail, Why? Deflect and evade criticism of McNabb’s poor performance for the last 5 years? I don’t know. Laurie bought mike vic on e-bay for 1 and a half million when he was worth 27 mil 3 years ago. I quess it was a bargain basement price he wouldn’t refuse.

I do not believe this will end well. Who let the vick out, why it’s the Philadelphia Beagles. What a joke.
 
stringbeanduck said:
No. That doesn’t bother me at all. It’s allowing him back in the NFL that does.
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If he had gotten out of jail and gotten a job as a paralegal at some local law firm, or say a job using whatever he studied at VTech, very few people, if anybody, would care. But since he comes back to the NFL, people are up in arms about it!? He paid the debt the US government said he needed to pay, and like anyone else, he deserves to have an opportunity to earn a living afterwards. His football skills are marketable to the NFL, they’ve decided to let him come back (not without some penalty there, too, since he can’t play the first 1/3rd of the season), and a team has now chosen to employ him. I don’t condone what he did, but he’s done what the government (and therefore, what we as society) asked him to do. The point of prison isn’t always imprisonment and isolation from society, but rehabilitation, i.e. another chance…this is his second chance.
 
JBassist17 said:
If he had gotten out of jail and gotten a job as a paralegal at some local law firm, or say a job using whatever he studied at VTech, very few people, if anybody, would care. But since he comes back to the NFL, people are up in arms about it!? He paid the debt the US government said he needed to pay, and like anyone else, he deserves to have an opportunity to earn a living afterwards. His football skills are marketable to the NFL, they’ve decided to let him come back (not without some penalty there, too, since he can’t play the first 1/3rd of the season), and a team has now chosen to employ him. I don’t condone what he did, but he’s done what the government (and therefore, what we as society) asked him to do. The point of prison isn’t always imprisonment and isolation from society, but rehabilitation, i.e. another chance…this is his second chance.
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Then let him have his second chance where he lives like the rest of us, not ayt a job that gives him a life of luxury. Therre are alot of people out there who have made mistakes in the past and can’t get a break, even after years. I guess pro athletes deserve more than everyone else.
 
CWBetts said:
Then let him have his second chance where he lives like the rest of us, not ayt a job that gives him a life of luxury. Therre are alot of people out there who have made mistakes in the past and can’t get a break, even after years. I guess pro athletes deserve more than everyone else.
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Why must he get a job like “the rest of us”? Before his crime, he put in hours and hours of hard work and discipline to be good at playing football (whether or not he’s all that good is debatable, but all the same, he worked hard to be a football player), and at the end of the day, it’s the avenue he wanted to pursue to get back to his regular life after serving his sentence for a crime.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you that athletes get ridiculously special treatment, celebrities in general seem to be able to do whatever they want and get away with it with consequences that don’t often exceed a metaphorical (if not literal) slap on the wrist. I think many are spoiled, and get paid WAY too much money for what they’re doing, and that they take for granted the amazing opportunity they have–getting paid millions to PLAY A GAME. I’ll be the first in line to say it’s ridiculous, but I don’t think Michael Vick’s case is one of those, at least in this current discussion.

We believe in forgiveness, and so far, his actions seem to indicate that he’s learned from his mistake, and is just trying to get back to his life. The fact that he wishes to continue with his life playing football (again, something he’s spent the majority of his LIFE working to do), is completely irrelevant to this particular issue (should he be allowed back), as is the fact that he’s getting paid millions to do it. Despite it’s many facets as entertainment, the NFL is a business, and Roger Goodell is the boss, and he’s made this particular decision. At least he’s being consistent (see Adam “Pacman” Jones and Dante Stallworth’s cases).
 
I don’t call getiing to go to college free, taking easy classes just so you can get a job where you make millions when you work 1 day a week “work”
 
CWBetts said:
I don’t call getiing to go to college free, taking easy classes just so you can get a job where you make millions when you work 1 day a week “work”
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Just because it’s not the same type of work that others do doesn’t make it not work. And athletes don’t only work 1 day a week. NFL players only work in front of millions of people and on TV once a week, but they don’t exactly take the other 6 days a week off. Most teams practice until 2 days before gameday, then take one day off to rest up from practice before the game. They may not have the highest IQ, and they may steal our scholarships, but they’re still busting their butts to stay in a condition from which they can do something well, even if they get paid way more than they should to do it.

Also, this line of argumentation is, as I mentioned before, completely irrelevant to the real question at hand: “should he be allowed back in the NFL?” This one, I’ve already answered above.
 
JBassist17 said:
If he had gotten out of jail and gotten a job as a paralegal at some local law firm, or say a job using whatever he studied at VTech, very few people, if anybody, would care. But since he comes back to the NFL, people are up in arms about it!? He paid the debt the US government said he needed to pay, and like anyone else, he deserves to have an opportunity to earn a living afterwards. His football skills are marketable to the NFL, they’ve decided to let him come back (not without some penalty there, too, since he can’t play the first 1/3rd of the season), and a team has now chosen to employ him. I don’t condone what he did, but he’s done what the government (and therefore, what we as society) asked him to do. The point of prison isn’t always imprisonment and isolation from society, but rehabilitation, i.e. another chance…this is his second chance.
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Just to be clear here. He is not suspended at all right now. What he has is called partial reinstatement, meaning he can practice and even play in the preseason. Week six is when the partial reinstatrement expires but the commishener can lift it at any time. (And you can bet the eagles have an idea of when that might be seeing as he has a 1 year deal with a one year option for 6.6 mil.)
It is sad that his jersey is predicted to be in the top five sellers in three months.
And he isn’t just reinstated in football but he is a leader.:rolleyes: Nice…
 
CWBetts said:
I don’t call getiing to go to college free, taking easy classes just so you can get a job where you make millions when you work 1 day a week “work”
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To be fair here. Football players work more physically in one week than I do. Probably you too.
 
CWBetts said:
I don’t call getiing to go to college free, taking easy classes just so you can get a job where you make millions when you work 1 day a week “work”
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I see you are not a football fan. I do not think the Eagles or the NFL were concerned about alienating those who do not watch football. A convict must work. It is laughable to me that I have seen those who care less about a man getting his life back on track than a bunch of dogs.

I just waiting until some one plays “Who Let the Dogs Out” when he takes the field.
 
As a dog lover it pained me to hear the horrors of what went on at Michael Vicks compound. As a football fan I’ve missed he athleticism on the playing field. I believe that Vick has paid his debt to society in the fact that he spent time in prison, lost his endorcements, and lost his job.
Now that the Eagles have picked him up I’m willing to give him a chance and see what happens. We are to forgive him if he honestly is sorry for his actions and I believe that he is. He might be fooling me… Lets give him a chance and keep an eye on him.
 
Serving time is prison does not demonstrate repentance. Repentance would be staying away from football and the big paycheque for a few years. Cleaning the dog pounds would be repentance – maybe.

I already hated football and most pro sports before all this - if Americans want to stuff their faces in front of the TV and cheer these zillion dollar morons on, then they deserve the punishment being heaped on them now.
 
Exactly what kind of treatment did Vick receive? He brutalized these animals including drowning, hanging, and electrocuting them plus fed his own pets to them and laughed. He got pleasure out of their suffering. How exactly does sitting in a cell cure him?
He may have served his time…did he have a choice…but what psychiatric help did he get?
 
Te be fair, I have heard that Michael Vick has been working with the Humane Society. Maybe there is some real repentance there, maybe it’s cynical publicity. I don’t know.

I wonder, will there be this level of outrage when Donte Stallworth is reinstated by the league? Seems there’s a lot more outrage about animal death than human death…
 
SaltySirena said:
Te be fair, I have heard that Michael Vick has been working with the Humane Society. Maybe there is some real repentance there, maybe it’s cynical publicity. I don’t know.

I wonder, will there be this level of outrage when Donte Stallworth is reinstated by the league? Seems there’s a lot more outrage about animal death than human death…
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If more would be banned from playing, maybe it would make others stop and think before they engage in criminal and dangerous behavior.
 
dermot2 said:
if Americans want to stuff their faces in front of the TV and cheer these zillion dollar morons on, then they deserve the punishment being heaped on them now.
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What punishment? Are you saying football is sinful?🤷
 
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