Posted on 12/27/2010 10:51:42 AM PST by LdSentinal
Though the Eagles didn’t have a chance to make news on the field tonight, they made some more news off the field.
Peter King of NBC reported during Football Night in America that President Barack Obama recently called Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie to congratulate the team for giving quarterback Mike Vick a second chance.
President Obama explained that a level playing field rarely exists for prisoners who have completed their sentences. Vick’s success gives all of them hope.
In our view, Obama’s gesture also provides Vick with the kind of positive reinforcement that will help keep him out of any trouble during the 2011 offseason, once he is left to his own devices.
Vick paid the price for his crime and pay he should, but never in the way you suggested with your idea of a twisted punishment. And now that he has paid that price, it is time for others to let him go on with his life. Very few people in his position ever come close to bouncing back the way he did. I am glad he realizes what he did was wrong and he is speaking out against that. He will never be perfect, and he will always have to carry this crime on his shoulders. But there has to come a time where others have to learn to forgive him. It has to be earned, this forgiveness, and I think Vick is trying to do that with his off-field actions.
If you can never forgive him, no matter how much he attones for his crime, then I feel really sorry for you! May God never judge you the way you judge others.
Big Ben
One, He didn’t do ENOUGH time, and he shouldn’t be back in the NFL, period.
It was more than dogfighting.
Oh, check Act I of “The Mikado” and you’ll understand the G & S reference.
BTW, letting him “get on with his life” doesn’t mean he must do so as a professional athlete. Whatever talent he had/has he discarded himself when he engaged in his foul crimes. Crimes I am under NO obligation to either forgive or forget.
As far as playing in the NFL, It should have been one strike and your out for Vick. I’ll shed no tear if he gets his leg or passing arm busted good and proper.
BTW, if you believe any of that “speaking out” is sincere, then you’re more gullible than most.
The guy did his time, lost millions and millions of dollars too. I don’t know what else people expect of him. I don’t particularly like him, but on the other hand, what else is he supposed to do?
Spoken like a true Philly fan :):):)
To me this is a year the Birds (Eagles) have a legit shot.
They do give up points, but are capable of big plays and shutting down a running game.
Agree on Vick being the key. If he’s off, everything changes.
Congrats on a great season so far.
Well stated.
Greetings from another disenfranchised former Eagles Fan
I feel sorry for you because you do forgive him.
"I've overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can handle or bear," Vick said. "You ask certain people to walk through my shoes, they probably couldn't do. Probably 95 percent of the people in this world because nobody had to endure what I've been through" "You have to be strong, believe in yourself, be optimistic. That's what I've been able to do. That's what I display."
I've been watching Vick real closely since he's come back and I honestly don't get a genuine sense of humility. But then again its not for me to judge Mike Vick as a man, but it is my choice whom I will root for and that certainly will never again be the Eagles as long as Jeffrey Lurie & Joe Banner are running the show.
"I've overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can handle or bear," Vick said. "You ask certain people to walk through my shoes, they probably couldn't do. Probably 95 percent of the people in this world because nobody had to endure what I've been through" "You have to be strong, believe in yourself, be optimistic. That's what I've been able to do. That's what I display."
I've been watching Vick real closely since he's come back and I honestly don't get a genuine sense of humility. But then again its not for me to judge Mike Vick as a man, but it is my choice whom I will root for and that certainly will never again be the Eagles as long as Jeffrey Lurie & Joe Banner are running the show.
He only realized he was wrong when the indictment came down and he knew he was going to prison. He was laughing at the whole thing till then.
Would he have cared so much about “second chances” if Michael Vick was a white guy? Just wonderin’.
Lurie’s campaign contributions:
http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Jeffrey_Lurie.php
Got it.
How many mothers who almost aborted their babies got phone calls from Obama for giving the children a “second chance”....
Obama never offered a 2nd chance to the babies who were wounded from botched abortions....throw in a room and let lay there cold, naked and suffering until they die is his solution.
He cares more about black quarterbacks than babies. Pathetic.
Very well put. That was my main point that who are we to pass judgment on someone. He committed a horrible crime which can never be denied. He served his time though. From what I have seen, I think he's been pretty humble, but I never saw that quote though. In the long run, it's his life to deal with.
I agree. Tony Dungy apparently does, too, and he is the one I applaud for mentoring this young man and helping him get on the right path.
they should have kept Brian Westbrook. I know he was injury prone, but it still doesn’t make sense to trade him away.
The Eagles lost last night. The Obama sports curse continues.
Injury prone? Westbrook was made out of glass. LOL! And the Eagles don’t need him. Not with Sean McCoy.
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