Posted on 09/27/2017 12:09:11 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Michael Vick was a successful quarterback?
How many Super Bowl rings did he win?
Ray Lewis was a sportscaster and he killed a human. But if Ron Mexico wants to stick his neck out, that’s his problem. Better him than me.
When Vick was at Virginia Tech, his interviews were painful to watch. He tried to pack as many “uh’s” into an answer as he could. It’s amazing how much better he is now.
Caveat: My daughter protested against his entry into the VT Hall of Fame.
“Caveat: My daughter protested against his entry into the VT Hall of Fame.”
Good for her.
I DESPISE animal abusers.
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Wow...Vick was the final straw for me ever buying a Nike product again and now this. I used to like the Bradshaw Long etc pre half and post game stuff from Fox but I was only the most casual of casual fans. In the last few years my NFL viewing was close to zero so this just reinforces my current level of interest forcing it closer and closer to the zero mark.
Fox Sports is beyond contempt to hire this guy, nuff said.
If you remember, the NFL let this guy come back and play for like 5 years. All under the auspices of the usual, “Everyone deserves another chance” and “He knows what he did was wrong and is rehabilitated....” cliches. Some of which, I admit, I may have even fell for.
Two questions for the NFL now, though:
1. If this guy had been a good, but not great back-up lineman, would he still have gotten another chance??
2. In light of this really disturbing stuff, you were ok with Vick coming back, but not Ray Rice or (dare I say) Kaepernick?
Both of which the NFL was right to exile I believe, just to be clear.
And then he served time in jail. America believes in the redemptive arc, when you’re done with your time it’s in the past. Which means you can get jobs again.
Well to be truthful
Dog Fighting is a Southern thing
There was even a C&W song
“I wouldn’t take her to a Dog Fight Even If She Had a Chance to Win “
I saw Buck Owens sing it on TV
“And then he served time in jail. America believes in the redemptive arc, when you’re done with your time it’s in the past. Which means you can get jobs again.”
Whooped -D- F-n doooo!
Disgraced NFL star Michael Vick has been released from federal prison after 18 months behind bars for his role in a brutal dog fighting operation.
“Mr. Vick has been transferred from the Northern Neck Regional jail in Virginia to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons minimum security facility in Leavenworth, Kan.,
Michael Vick’s presence at Chiefs training camp upsets animal lovers
By Joe Robertson
and Ian Cummings
July 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick, once imprisoned for running a brutal dog fighting operation, has been hired by the Kansas City Chiefs this summer, riling many animal advocates and testing just how much people are willing to forgive.
Vick was convicted in 2007 on federal charges amid horrible accounts of his Bad Newz Kennels that described large fighting rings and, in particular, the abuse and torture of dogs who failed as fighters.
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Vick kills dogs. Fox fires O’Reilly and hires Vick? Really?
Lots of meaningless copy and paste in there. Meanwhile, out here in reality, there’s lots of ex-cons who did some pretty horrible stuff who then get to go on with their lives. It’s how we work.
You must have been educated myopically. Jack London wrote about dogfighting in Alaska over 100 years ago. It was in a fiction book, “White Fang”, that most snowflakes have never heard of. I never heard of Alaska as a part of the South. There are dogfighting rings in California and the Midwest too.
Some were (LOL) caught miles away but the dogs were impounded. I knew some of the LE that did the raid and had a time chasing them (the perps, not the critters).
I’d like to batter his bloodied soft and tenders in bacon fat... Second thought, hire that part out. Then, let a few possums snack on them overnight.
If dogs go to heaven, I want to be with them.
Oh Yeah?
He made you feel goooooood, right?
Dude
I am 81 years old
I was reading about Jack London probably before you were born
And I also saw a re release of the Movie Call of the wild before you were born
Then your statement that dog fighting was unique to the South is even more perplexing. Don't disparage the South when the truth is obvious and in your case, known.
Vicks personally hung and electrocuted dogs who lost. In Texas volunteering for animal, have seen dogs used for fighting brought in. Vicks should rot in Hell. No mercy.
Faux is dead to me
WE ain’t talking about Alaska over a hundred years ago
That C&W song wouldn’t have been written if it had no basis
Veterinarian Melinda Merck has written a very detailed article on connection to animal abusers and homicides.
The Link Between Animal Abuse and Murder
A forensic veterinarian is on a mission to convince law enforcement that people who harm pets often commit other serious crimes.
David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters
In August 2007, Michael Vick pleaded guilty to the case that jettisoned him from celebrity into notoriety. The Atlantic Falcons quarterback’s dogfighting ring had been exposed in such graphic and shocking detail that his coterie of star defense attorneys panicked, then folded.
The person who dug up this hard evidence against Vick—by literally exhuming the bodies of dead fighting dogs and proving they’d been hanged—was Melinda Merck. An ace at forensics, Merck has helped crack cases involving crimes from pedophilia to drug dealing. She’s credited by the chiefs of both the FBI and the National Sheriffs’ Association with having revolutionized their crime-fighting efforts, and won awards from both the Department of Justice and the U.S. Office of Inspector General.
But Merck isn’t a run-of-the-mill crime-scene investigator. She’s a veterinarian.
For more than 20 years, Merck has been studying and solving animal-abuse cases. Now, she’s going a step further by persuading law enforcement that there’s a link between animal cruelty and other serious crimes, like domestic violence, arson, and murder. It’s CSI for animals, but with a twist: Look closely, says Merck, and you’ll likely find a clue that leads to a whole trail of criminal behavior.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/melinda-merck-veterinary-forensics/538575/
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