Yet another source is reporting Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is or has been involved in dog fighting. On ESPN’s most recent broadcast of “Outside the Lines”, a unnamed source said he has not only seen Vick at a dog fight, but has also competed against him (or more specifically, his dog has competed against one of Vick’s dogs).
“He’s a pit bull fighter,” the source says of Vick. “He’s one of the ones that they call ‘the big boys:’ that’s who bets a large dollar. And they have the money to bet large money. As I’m talking about large money — $30,000 to $40,000 — even higher. He’s one of the heavyweights.”
“I’ve fought dogs, I pitted them, I bred them and I’ve done everything with them,” says the source of his three decades in dog fighting. He then went on to describe the scene from that night seven years ago, as he took his 42-pound dog into the pit (the area where dogs fight) to face off against Vick’s dog. He says Vick did not get into the pit, but had a member of his entourage handle his dog, while Vick placed bets with the 20 or so people in attendance.
What’s interesting about this latest news is that this unnamed source told ESPN that he saw Vick at a dogfight as early as 2000, one year before the Falcons drafted him. Where would Vick get $30 to $40 grand to bet on a single dogfight while at Virginia Tech? It’s not unrealistic to assume Vick got some booster money, but $30 to $40 grand just to blow on a dogfight? That seems like a stretch. I’m not saying this source is lying about Vick being evolved, but I can’t see him blowing thousands of dollars on a fight until after he signed his contract with Atlanta. Either way, I bet many athletes in the NFL and NBA are holding their collective breaths in this scandal, because I get the distinct feeling Vick isn’t the only one wrapped up in this mess. Although let me say again for the record, these prosecutors better get more evidence than just a few unnamed sources or Vick is going to walk regardless.
