T-Hawk,
Innocent until proven guilty has absolutely nothing to do with this situation; it has to do with moral and ethical obligations that the NFL, the sponsors and the fans seem to forget.
The problem is this has recently been made out to be a race issue, people of the same race as Vick justify his actions as a cultural thing, nothing else and most people who are complaining about it are white according to his supporters. The problem with this, as with the problem with burying the ‘n’ word in Detroit a couple weeks ago is that race has nothing to do with justifying participating in a barbaric sport that should be outlawed and the people who participate should be in jail or worst. As with the ‘n’ word, I understand the only motivation behind keeping Vick and the keep ‘n’ word in play for most is money but the ignorance of the people who justify his existence in a sport that has so many people trying to get into it on the professional level makes my point completely.
As a side note here – I was in San Diego Sunday and enjoying the ocean parked on the beach. A couple (a marine and his girl friend) setup next to me with a BBQ, a boom box (hooked up to an iPod) and a huge umbrella. The boom box started and from 11 AM to 9 PM I was entertained by every rap star you could think of. The guy was polite about it, asking me if I would like him to turn it down after the first song vibrated stuff off my shelf, I told him to just enjoy the day. Well my point is that about 80% of the songs had the ‘n’ word in it and some were really, really bad.
The one thing that is forgotten and you should know about this T-Hawk, is the problem we have with the dogs that are bred for fighting. It is not like a Game C*ck where if they are let loose, the damage is minimal (I have seen one attack a car before but outside of chipped paint there was no blood or gore or anyone dead from being attack), we have a dog that has the power to kill a man and many of them are set loose. I can take you around Detroit and show you dead dogs dumped in ally ways and on the side of the roads, even 75 and 94 every once in a while you will see one or two. Detroit has an additional problem with dogs running in packs, which a few pits and mastiffs are in among them; my township killed a couple and tried to capture the rest that attacked a lady last year. The cops killed a pit a few doors down from me last year and the year before they killed one that was a family pet (10 shots from a 9mm and 4 from a shot gun – uncalled for, the dog was realty docile). We don’t hear about all the attacks that happen unless there is a kid involved but a number of the ones we hear about are fatal and involve children. Detroit is not the only place this happens, we do have a rather large dog fighting circuit and the cops do absolutely nothing to stop them or clean up the mess.
As far as the NFL is concern, they are like the NBA, NHL and baseball, can’t take anything seriously. Suspensions for felonies should not be, termination of a contract is the only way to go. Keep yourself clean (not hard to do), be professional and get rewarded for your hard work.
