The Big Ragu

I am angry.  I’m told I’m being unfair; I don’t know what I’m talking about; others have
done worse in professional sports and still continue to play (Stallworth); etc etc. I’m talking about Michael Vick’s return to the NFL. He doesn’t deserve to return to a position that children idolize. I’m told he’s remorseful (although I didn’t see any remorse in his press conference); yes he’s remorseful because he got caught!! He says he cried every night in jail. Yes, because he realized how many millions he lost and he was now bankrupt. He claims he was naïve and he was wrong…..for SIX YEARS???

Michael Vick’s kennel began back in 2001 and he was caught in 2007.  Tell me he didn’t know what was going on on his property?  He had no idea where his money was going for all those years? Please.

I’m sorry but I do NOT believe 18 months in federal prison and TWO appearances with the Humane Society has reformed Michael Vick.  Yes this is America and everyone deserves a second chance.  And what about the dogs that were hanged or electrocuted because they didn’t win a fight??  What about their second chance??  Thankfully Best Friends has rehabilitated and successfully adopted out a good portion of the Vick dogs. But that has nothing to do with him.  In the meantime, the Eagles have taken him on for possibly two years at a salary of $6.8 million. (And let’s not forget Pete Rose was BANNED from baseball for gambling.)

I adore Wayne Pacelle from the Humane Society but it bothers me that he believes Vick has changed. If Pacelle gets Vick out in the community on a weekly basis and talks to kids in schools about dog fighting, then maybe I’ll believe that there is a positive aspect to this whole debacle.  But in the meantime, as a viewer wrote in to a local TV show I hosted:
“Michael Vick is a friend to dogs as Colonel Sanders is a friend to chickens.”

Exactly.