Posted on 04/26/2009 11:09:43 AM PDT by Perdogg
ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that Tony Dungy will meet with suspended QB Michael Vick in early May. Dungy is expected to be a kind of sponsor for Vick as he attempts to achieve reinstatement. Mortensen also said that Vick is very likely to be let back in the league this season.
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I'm tired of the gang bangers, wife beaters, drug pushers, rapist, murderers and other unsavory felons and thugs having gainful employment in what used to be my favorite sports pastime.
The fact that they take our tax money to build stadiums is just icing on the cake. I hope that if Vick is reinstated, whatever team he is with goes bankrupt and takes the league with it.
And when O asked Dungy to be on his faith committee the pro gay crazies objected and Dungy was forced to resign.
Some day people will actually judge others by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.
Sadly, not in my lifetime.
Viva Mexico!
Having said that, I love Tony Dungy, not for the Super Bowl, but for running a great program and always giving to the Indy community, even when his life was in turmoil.
Theres a lot of people I will criticize for Obama but if Dungy feels he can minister, I trust him.
Michael Vicks' heart is his own, I believe Dungy, will do the right thing.
Dog fighting is an inner city sport that has been going on for generations. I remember in Pittsburgh in 1970's; no big deal. Part of their cultural identity; no different than how the Indians do what they always have done and ignore many laws. Maybe, they should close down the churches next; I bet a bunch of people would support that too.
I share your sentiments.
One of the silliest things I have ever read.
Rape, Wife beating, child abusing, drug pushing and dropping out of school and truancy are all part the "inner city culture" that you describe. Should a civilized a society also look past those offenses just because "that's how day do it inda hood"?
Sign with Cleveland. Don’t they have the dog pound?
I guess that you have never lived around Indian Country. Cultural practices are not judged by other cultures.
Dungy is quite kind to help Vicks. I hope it goes well.
I used to like Tony Dungy but no more. His poor kid who off’ed himself wanted to be a gangsta like Vick and Obama.
Another faux Christian like that scum Joel Osteen (what a fraud) and Rick Warren.
Murdering dogs who do not fight well? No dude it is cruelty and is not acceptable behavior.
Hopefully we advanced a bit from bear baiting and thorwing christians to the lions but some people make me wonder.
Indian practices, as you've put it, are carried out on reservations - property that was set-aside for the native American people as an area for the native Americans to govern and manage in accordance with their own cultural ideals and religious beliefs.
The urban areas of America's cities are not federally set aside areas for the inhabitants to govern as they see fit. They have to abide by the city, county, state and federal laws that have been passed in a democratic manner. Just because they don't agree with those laws, doesn't give them license to break them.
Forgetting for a moment that Michael Vick isn't a Native American, and that his dog fighting wasn't carried out on a reservation, or the inner city for that matter (his dog fighting took place on the property surrounding his suburban Virginia home), are you arguing that Vick's commercial dog fighting venture was somehow an expression of Vick's long-held religious views steeped in centuries of tradition?
Your argument is not very well grounded in neither history nor law.
I think Vick has paid his debt to society. He served his term, he did what was asked of him. He has lost millions because of his actions. Sorry, but I don’t believe dog fighting should warrant a life long sentence. He deserves an opportunity to get his life back and to earn a living. Seriously, people make mistakes, they pay the price for those mistakes. Once that price is paid, it is time for everyone to move on.
Then let him make a living doing something that doesn't require me to either partially subsidies through tax incentives or require me to purchase products that advertising are selling.
For too long, consumers have looked past the culture or crime that has permeated our professional sports industry, but especially football, baseball and basketball. This quiet acceptance of the broodish, criminal and uncivil behavior of the sporting industries stars has had a toxic, corrosive effect on our society in general, and our young impressionable males in particulary.
Vick paid his debt to society from a legal perspective, but that doesn't mean I should want to pay the $400 bucks to take my wife and kids to go seem him compete in a sport for which he is being compensated tens of millions of dollars.
Give me a break, Vick doesn’t live in the inner city. He is rich. He chose to bring his “entourage” with him. He is a thug. One is supposed to grow, he had great opportunity to improve his life being a rich NFL quarterback. He choose killing dogs for fun and profit.
It is a free country. You don’t have to pay $400 to watch him play. You don’t have to buy products that hire him as a spokesman. He can make a living doing what someone will pay him to do. (as long as it is legal) This is America, it is the land of the free....at least for now.
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