http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/05/14/dungy-%e2%80%98vick-wants-second-chance%e2%80%99/ The National Sports Blog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:52:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/05/14/dungy-%e2%80%98vick-wants-second-chance%e2%80%99/#comment-398307 T-Bone Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:33:51 +0000 http://www.scoresreport.com/?p=18396#comment-398307 How many corporations in America would hire someone with a felony conviction and jail time yet with the NFL it's almost a prerequisite for employment. If Vick had done this while in college, no team would have touched him in the draft but because he's shown talent on the field, he gets different treatment. Let him go to the arena league or Canada but if the NFL is serious about cleaning up the thug image it has, it'll stay away from Vick and others with felony crimes in their pasts. How many corporations in America would hire someone with a felony conviction and jail time yet with the NFL it’s almost a prerequisite for employment. If Vick had done this while in college, no team would have touched him in the draft but because he’s shown talent on the field, he gets different treatment. Let him go to the arena league or Canada but if the NFL is serious about cleaning up the thug image it has, it’ll stay away from Vick and others with felony crimes in their pasts.

]]> http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/05/14/dungy-%e2%80%98vick-wants-second-chance%e2%80%99/#comment-397661 Andy K. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:20:28 +0000 http://www.scoresreport.com/?p=18396#comment-397661 America's love affair with dogs doesn't leave much room for someone to make a disinterested logical argument for Michael Vick...but here we go. I'll start off by mentioning that Vick used a pitbull for exactly for what the breed was intended to be used for. So, here come the pitbull owners and their claims that more people get struck by lightning each year than get attacked by pitbulls. OK sure, now compare how many Americans are at risk to get struck by lightning (pretty much everyone) versus how many own or have neighbors with pitbulls (a minority) and it's clear that's not a good argument. There is no good justification to own the breed, unless you have serious security issues. Not many people shed a tear for the greyhounds that can't race anymore or hunting dogs that are too old to hunt or gun shy when they're put down. Granted all Vick had to do was stay out of trouble and play ball. There's no argument for that. But for the same public that pays $60 on Paperview to watch two humans beat each other to a pulp (MMA) to offer an opinion on Vick seems a bit hypocritical. I would prefer watch dogs fight to that degree than humans. But dogs never had a choice? I agree, it's using something for the only thing it knows how to do. The solution is a simple. Quit judging Vick, he's done his time (remember all the crazy things you did and never got caught), and consider exterminating pitbulls as a breed if it's such a horrible thing to use them as they were meant to be used. To the pitbull owners of America, hope you can afford a good lawyer for when that day comes that the little rascal gets off the leash and attacks the neighbors kid. America’s love affair with dogs doesn’t leave much room for someone to make a disinterested logical argument for Michael Vick…but here we go. I’ll start off by mentioning that Vick used a pitbull for exactly for what the breed was intended to be used for. So, here come the pitbull owners and their claims that more people get struck by lightning each year than get attacked by pitbulls. OK sure, now compare how many Americans are at risk to get struck by lightning (pretty much everyone) versus how many own or have neighbors with pitbulls (a minority) and it’s clear that’s not a good argument. There is no good justification to own the breed, unless you have serious security issues. Not many people shed a tear for the greyhounds that can’t race anymore or hunting dogs that are too old to hunt or gun shy when they’re put down.
Granted all Vick had to do was stay out of trouble and play ball. There’s no argument for that. But for the same public that pays $60 on Paperview to watch two humans beat each other to a pulp (MMA) to offer an opinion on Vick seems a bit hypocritical. I would prefer watch dogs fight to that degree than humans. But dogs never had a choice? I agree, it’s using something for the only thing it knows how to do.
The solution is a simple. Quit judging Vick, he’s done his time (remember all the crazy things you did and never got caught), and consider exterminating pitbulls as a breed if it’s such a horrible thing to use them as they were meant to be used.
To the pitbull owners of America, hope you can afford a good lawyer for when that day comes that the little rascal gets off the leash and attacks the neighbors kid.

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