Michael Vick Would've Been Better Off Being Cruel To Humans Or Using Steroids
Published May 19, 2007
Michael Vick has electrified fans at every level of football, as a high school quarterback in Virginia Beach, a man among boys at Virginia Tech, and in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons. Regardless of what you think of him as a quarterback, he is surely one of the most gifted athletes ever to step foot on any playing field in any sport.
The trouble is that for Mike, trouble has been the constant companion of talent. For the most part the trouble Vick has gotten in has been of the “dumb boys will be dumb boys” variety. To describe Vick’s behavior in this manner isn’t an attempt to excuse it, but to put it in some kind of context as compared to the actions of other knucklehead college and pro athletes.
The problem with Vick is that you can’t have a knucklehead at quarterback - in the NFL, or in Arena League 2 or high school - if you have any hopes of success. Atlanta owner Arthur Blank has invested well over a $100 million in the Vick-led Falcons, and has nothing to show for it except an under-achieving team led by an over-rated, over-paid quarterback.
Vick was well on his way to establishing himself as a bust until last month when a raid at a Virginia home that he owned uncovered the trappings of a dog fighting ring, complete with 60 malnourished and injured dogs. Now he has a shot to be a disgraceful bust that will make a lot of people forget about Ryan Leaf.
By the way, dog fighting is to the death. There are no judges, scorecards or referees, no decisions. There aren’t corner men and ring girls, or athletes skilled in the ways of the “Sweet Science.” There are just two dogs that have been bred and trained to fight to the death. The process to get the dogs to this point is unnatural – dogs aren’t born killers - as is the goal of this kind of barbarism.
Another potential problem with the dog fighting issue, and something that hasn't been mentioned in connection with this story, is that dog fighting and pit bulls are frequently connected to street gangs.
If Michael Vick had any involvement in this kind of endeavor, he will be gone from the NFL for at least a year and will probably kiss his multi-million dollar contract good-bye. If he just beat up women, got busted for drunk driving, spit in someone’s face, incited a riot at a strip club where people got shot, waived a gun at a crowd of people, tested positive for injectable anabolic agents or was involved in any of the run-of-the-mill chicanery, he would probably be relatively safe. He’d probably still go to the Pro Bowl as long as his team made the playoffs.
Sal Marinello is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer, a U.S.A. Weightlifting Certified Coach, a full-time, private Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach, an assistant football coach and a Head Strength Coach for a suburban New Jersey High School. He writes a lot and has no free time. 
- Michael Vick Would've Been Better Off Being Cruel To Humans Or Using Steroids
- Published: May 19, 2007
- Type: News
- Section: Sports
- Filed Under: Culture: Celebrity, Culture: Crime and Court, Sports: Football (American)
- Writer: Sal Marinello
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Michael Vick is innocent until proven guilty.
His offense may just be carelessness, trusting the wrong people, indifference, or wilful ignorance in this matter.
If he is proven to have any knowledge or criminal connection, he should be punished by the law, the Falcons, and the NFL.
Michael Vick is smug! Did you see his comments yesterday? Positive,Positive,Positive! Until he was asked if he'll be exonerated,and then it was,"no comment". Is that what you would say if you were innocent? That's what I thought. next case yer honor.
Informant just outed Vick's involvement in dog fighting on ESPN. Guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Vick should bee fried.
Michael Vick may be a star when it comes to football but in life he's a sadistic, low-life thug, and a lying coward to boot. Not even man enough to stand up & admit what he was doing. Remember, he tried to blame it on a cousin. What a disgrace of a human being.
Fire him and do it now. He needs to be sent to jail.
Vick should not be a NFL quarterback regardless - look what happened to New Orleans after they dumped his cousin, Aaron Brooks, and got a real pocket passer!
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While watching a show about The Secret by Rhonda Byrne on Oprah, she attracted a harebrained idea on how to utilize The Success Principle by Jack Canfield to pay off her SallieMae student loans (which total a little more than $40,000) in less than 6 months and also pay for her treatments to quit smoking Marlboro Lights so she can avoid being one of over 400,000 people a year who die of smoking related deaths.
The idea is simple. There are two competing web sites: SaveFloppy.com (which I'm hoping wins) or CookFloppy.com (which I'm hoping loses). The first web site to collect $100,000 in donations from anywhere in the world wins. Donations include profits from merchandise sales.
If SaveFloppy.com wins, then I get to go on living a long happy life. But, if CookFloppy.com wins, 10 days after the contest ends, I will be euthanized in the most humane way possible (unlike the way Michael Vick tortured dogs before killing them), cooked in a recipe that was voted on by you and eaten during a live internet broadcast for all too see. Tickets to watch the live internet broadcast will cost $10 each.
While I know my caretaker loves me and doesn't want to cook me and eat me, she promised me that she will do this if CookFloppy.com wins. Please don't let this happen to me. I'm
happy living here and would like to continue to live here - without the fear of being cooked and eaten. Donate to SaveFloppy.com today and be sure to Tell a Friend too. With a donation of $100 or more, you'll receive a free SaveFloppy.com or CookFloppy.com t-shirt. While the contest is gong on, please buy SaveFloppy.com or CookFloppy.com t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs and other merchandise in support of your stance on my life. Merchandise purchases to SaveFloppy.com will go towards saving me. Merchandise purchases
to CookFloppy.com will go towards cooking me. You can also buy me food too. I really like carrots.
To prove she loves all animals, my caretaker has promised to donate 10% of all profits from SaveFloppy.com to PETA. She has also generously donated the first $100 towards SaveFloppy.com. She in no way supports animal cruelty towards domestic animals or wild animals such as myself which is why she'll euthanize me in the most humane way possible if CookFloppy.com wins and not torture me like Michael Vick did with those poor dogs.
Please donate today to SaveFloppy.com in order to save my life or just donate today because you like this web site and want to help my caretaker pay her SallieMae student loans.
Very truly yours,
Floppy
P.S. I'm way cuter than Toby and so is my caretaker.
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Michael Vick is a disgrace. Ban him from the NFL.