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Ex-Offender Vick = Eagles = Whatever

Aug 14, 2009 / Workforce / Trackback

I’m not a foot­ball fan. I’m not against it either, I just don’t care for it. In fact, I’m not a fan of any sport where break­fast is steroids over easy. How­ever, my taste in sports isn’t really what this is about.

His crime, in my opin­ion, was hor­rific.  Per­son­ally, I’m not a Michael Vick fan. I don’t like him one bit. I am the founder of the first rec­og­nized ani­mal pro­tec­tion asso­ci­a­tion in Mex­ico. I do not sup­port harm to ani­mals or humans in any form — ever. Have you seen the peace sign on my avatar?

What this is about is an ex-offender who has been hired to work. His crime is not rel­e­vant to his posi­tion. Accord­ing to juris pru­dence he has paid his debt to soci­ety. His sen­tence, though very light in my own opin­ion was not set by me. The NFL obvi­ously doesn’t work like most of cor­po­rate Amer­ica in regard to dis­qual­i­fy­ing con­vic­tions. I also respect the law. Is the man never sup­posed to work again?

If Vick were a stock clerk in a store he wouldn’t be on the national nightly news. His career is pro foot­ball. Whatever…

I encour­age you, dear reader, to con­tribute to the Humane Soci­ety of Cozumel, The Human Soci­ety of the US, PETA or any ani­mal pro­tec­tion agency. I will love you for­ever if you do.


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  • mbug

    He has had mul­ti­ple ear­lier offenses for var­i­ous things. He is a thug and should be banned from foot­ball. I bet he’ll screw up again within 2 years.

  • mbug

    He has had mul­ti­ple ear­lier offenses for var­i­ous things. He is a thug and should be banned from foot­ball. I bet he’ll screw up again within 2 years.

    • http://karlaporter.com Karla

      Maybe the NFL needs to imple­ment back­ground checks and have a pol­icy against offend­ers like many employ­ers do. Thanks for stop­ping by!

  • http://www.theidandthesuperego.blogspot.com/ Jes­sica

    What Michael Vick did was awful. And I agree, the man needs to work again, as do we all. I also think he should still be in prison for his hor­rific crimes, but he is a celebrity, so of course some rules just don’t apply. But I think all of this pub­lic­ity only helps him; which in my opin­ion is a bad thing. If any other ath­lete was traded to a dif­fer­ent team, they’d announce it and peo­ple would talk a lit­tle, but then it would be over. Now, with all of the hype over him join­ing the Eagles, and over what he did, it just rein­forces his behav­ior. Too many peo­ple focus on the neg­a­tive. We need to be focus­ing on pos­i­tive events. And while this is neu­tral to me, I think every­one just needs to let it be. It is tak­ing up too much space in the paper, on blogs and twit­ter. We need to read more inter­est­ing things! (I’m also not a fan of foot­ball! ha)


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