Comments on: NFL to Sick Vick: What dog thing? Welcome home!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:01:11 +0000

Yeah, I’ll watch football again……..

If after a bad game by Vick, they do to him what he did to tjhose dogs!!!

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:50:44 +0000

Oh, and as I keep reminding people — he did NOT serve his time! He was allowed to cop a plea AFTER THE FACT and get probation early so he could get out and try to play. That is not something that happens to the average convict, particularly the average Black convict. You need to be nice and rich with expensive lawyers. But he had his cake and ate it too — he had his trial and then plea bargained.

By: Alex V.

Alex V. — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:27:33 +0000

hmm, I immediately thought BPD = Buffalo Police Department. Until I realized that made no sense. lol.

There was a rumor yesterday that Vick was going to Buffalo, which he obviously didn’t, and the Bills had said weeks ago they weren’t considering signing him. I honestly couldn’t believe my cousin’s facebook status yesterday: “wow for real we might get vick that would be soo dope.” Of course I told him how I felt about that. And he proceeded to give me reasons that in my mind are total bs.

“ok. im sorry that i like him and im not gonna judge him on his ancestors practices and the culture he lives by. i dont condone dog fighting but then again i never grew up with it.”

“ROFL. ok well check this out when did they ever prove that he killed dogs himself. or that he was even there. and alex im sorry that i dont see it the way u do my bad. i love animals just as much as u do but it is their culture. and i dont believe in judging people at all and all you guys do is judge people its horrible. your not an african american and you don’t know so how can u judge someone. thats very ignorant.”

Oh, and he called quotes I used from Christie’s blog entry -Who’s Sorry Now- Not Michael Vick- the “stupidest things ive ever heard.”

I can’t see how anybody could try to justify Vick’s actions. It makes me want to vomit. *insert stream of cursing here*

By: Original Lori

Original Lori — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:10:20 +0000

Yes, Gina, but I’ve never given HSUS my money. I have given it to the NFL franchise.

I have no response to the “but he served his time” argument I’ve been hearing besides “I don’t care.”

By: EmilyS

EmilyS — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:12:01 +0000

Gina, good for you, and I agree completely. HSUS was the grease

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:34:47 +0000

As I said before: The NFL does what it does: Make money on violent pageantry. Micheal Vick does what he does: Everything he can to make get in the game, for the fame and the money.

Expecting the NFL or Vick to do anything other than they did is like expecting a mountain lion to become a vegan.

But it’s the HSUS, an ANIMAL ADVOCACY group, that made this deal work. It’s the HSUS that laundered this dirtbag, and for all the advances they seem to be making in other areas of progressive animal welfare, this incident will remain a bloody stain on their reputation forever. The HSUS made it possible for a man who never, ever said he was sorry about what happened to the dogs to return to the ranks of millionaires.

Vick apologized to the sport, to the fans, to the kids. Not the dogs. He enjoyed the killing and the torture, saw nothing wrong with it, and he would take it up again if he could. His pride is such that he has not ever betrayed what he really believes, that he is a victim, and the dogs deserved to die because they were not warriors enough for him.

There are plenty of organizations ready to forgive Michael Vick. An animal advocacy organization should not have been one of them. To me, it shows how little we still value the lives of those dogs, since this sort of alliance would have been unimaginable for a group advocating for abused children. Can you imagine John Walshembracing a serial killer who tortured and killed children like his son Adam as a spokesperson? Of course not.

Every time I heard this discussed, the person advocating “forgiveness” cited Vick’s involvement with the HSUS as proof of change.

Vick may well have been taken back by the NFL without the HSUS, but it surely would have taken longer. The HSUS made it possible for the bullet train to hit top speed, and now the Vick “redemption express” is in the Eagles’ station.

Nathan Winograd’s latest on this sums it up for me:

http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=1789

Rot in hell, Michael Vick, you sadistic slime.

By: Original Lori

Original Lori — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:44:34 +0000

The Eagles are my “hometeam” (although I’ve never really rooted for them), and this doesn’t surprise me at all. The coach has a son in jail at the moment and his other son is on the path to the same.

Eff the NFL, I’ll find another sport to root for (and give money to).

By: Christie Keith

Christie Keith — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:38:49 +0000

Disgusting. I’m finding it hard to come up with words that reflect how I feel that I can actually use on this blog.

By: Leslie K

Leslie K — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:20:17 +0000

Well he’s a Philadelphia Eagle at 15 million for 2 years. Any bets on how much of that money will go to care for the poor dogs who survived his loving care ? Guess my football watching days are over,thats even our home team. lucky me !I’d like to know what brainless twit thought this would help lower Philly’s horrendous crime rate.

By: Lis

Lis — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:45:40 +0000

PETA still successfully presents itself as an animal welfare org to the mainstream media even while actively working for the extinction of all domestic animals, and killing virtually every single animal unfortunate enough to fall into their possession, barring the ones the staff cherry-pick for their own pets, so I’m not sure what you mean about Newkirk not speaking with a polished forked tongue.

And when references to Hitler and Nazis are being tossed around, what you’re reading is not “unsweetened harsh truth.” It’s something else entirely.