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.
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.
So, in other words; He’s guilty. Yeah, we got the message. But when have we as a society moved beyond the point where we don’t accept penance anymore? I hated Vick for what he did too. My son tore the cover off his Madden NFL game that had Vick front and center, he hates the number 7 and won’t wear a uniform with it on. HOWEVER, I don’t want my son learning that people can’t return from the bottom; from committing a crime of stupidity; and return as fully functioning members of society. Vick lost it all. Lost $110 million, went bankrupt and spent two years in jail... shall we keep flogging him until he goes and hangs himself? I don’t like the drunk driving, steroid taking, gang-banging, no-account attitude of some of the NFL players either; but you can say that type of behavior dominates the league. Goodell has done a great job cracking down on this type of behavior, and I hope he continues to set a higher bar than that the NFL has aspired to over the last couple of decades.