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What a waste of taxpayer money. I hope they don't let him in.

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I like sticking firecrackers in cat butts.

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The only way he should be allowed to play in professional sports again is if he abides by the same rules he enforced on his dogs. If he has a bad game and/or is "underperforming", he will be either electrocuted, shot, hanged or beaten to death.

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Here we go again...

The outrage of unforgiving, self-righteous fans.

The guy made a mistake - NO - He did worse; He actually made a series of bad decisions, and developed a disturbing pattern of behavior. No argument there.

But, he is not Satan. He is not the single worst person to ever walk the face of the earth. There are folks who have killed and tortured innocent PEOPLE who don't get the kind of hatred this man gets.

I hope he does his time. Corrects himself, learns a valuable lesson and returns to the NFL.

People ought to be punished for their misdeeds, but I don't necessarily get joy out of seeing athletes in trouble and suffering punishment the way many hopelessly irrelevant, jealous fans seem to nowadays.

From an Anti-VT, Non-Falcon, Never-been-a-Vick Fan...

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Doing the time does not make everything go away. If I am convicted of a crime and spend a year in jail, companies are not going to be lined up waiting to hire me when I get out. I would have to find a new profession making alot less than I make now. I am sorry but that is just the way it is. Having a good job is not a right. This should be a lesson to young people. If you make bad choices they can follow you forever. I really do hope Vick is changed. I hope people forgive him. I hope he live a long and healthy live. Just don't cry if he is not given another chance. He had his chance and threw it away. He needs to be prepared to take advantage of new chances. I do know I do not want him on one of my teams. There are plenty of guys that do not hang with convicts, smoke pot, play video games instead of studying film, do not have kids out of wedlock, do not pass STD around like candy, do not lie to their fans and teammates, and get their kicks from watching suffering to take a chance on adding him to the team. Forgive him yes, want him on one of my teams no. All the hate is bad for everyone. Do not hate on Vick. Hate what he did but do not hate him.

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It would be unthinkable that he gets out of jail early by using this fake ploy of drug addiction that was cooked up by his attorney last September. Surely the authorities can see through this ruse. He needs to serve his entire jail term. It really doesn't matter how long he serves...he is a scheming, self-absorbed has been...he is not going to come out of jail a better man. It won't happen.

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eyesopen:

I can respect your position that you would not want Vick on your team if and when he is released. Surely there are other GM's who will feel the same way.

I also agree that bad choices sometimes follow you forever. Good grief, these athletes need to make better decisions!

But where I disagree is the notion that he, despite perhaps maintaining an ability to perform his job, should not be given an opportunity.

If he was convicted of bank fraud - no he shouldn't return to a CEO position. If he was convicted of Child molestation - no he shouldn't return to a teaching position. And had he been convicted of doing something with a DIRECT connection to the NFL, other than "being a role model for the league" then he shouldn't ever play again.

He did a crime, will pay the price, and should be allowed to rebuild his life...

-In my opinion.

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Yes he made bad desisions and wrong choices but he has paid the consequences for his actions...His life is ruined, not just because he is in jail but because of the media and the public. LET IT GO!! Dog fighting still goes on ALL over the world but because its someone famous everybody seems to care, nobody gives a toss about Gerard Cavlan, most of you dont even know his name but he did the exact same and people have let it pass by. GROW UP!! If your against the cruelty to animals you should be aginst the cruelty to human beings!

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Mike Vick did not kill anyone. Bush and his war has killed thousand and he still has a job. Please.

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People make mistakes and his culture was dogfighting some of you are just racist haters

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Vick needs to admit to some kind of treatment but drug addiction probably isn't one of them. Maybe a commitment to a humane society hands on program would be more inline with the crime. I think 4 hours a day cleaning dog shit and nursing abused animals back to health and footing the bill for their care at a rescue center is more fitting. After about a year then and only then should he be elligable to return to football with the stipulation that a percentage of he earnings go to support the ASPA.

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Being that he has this crazy side to his persona, he should have gone to any inner city ghetto and killed 3 black males. America would have been less outraged than they are over some dogs. 1. white people 2. Dogs 3. blacks and other people of color . People of color please Wake Up!

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Why would Vick get out early for good behavior? Treat him the same way he treated his dogs!! He has no right to go back to the NFL. IF he does play again, I hope he wins every game, for his sake. Cuz if he doesn't I think the rest of his team should say he was a "poor performer" and he should be hanged, or electracuted, ooooooh maybe killed!!!! Oh well, what goes around.......

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I am not a Falcons fan, I am not a Vick fan, I am an animal lover, BUT...If Vick does miss the 2009 season, he will have missed three years and at the age of 30 years, three missed years to a average/marginal quarterback may well be the death knell to his career...Ask Ricky Williams how hard it is to come back after missing three years...By the time the 2010 season starts, if Vick is back, he will have been nearly four years without an NFL snap...That will be very tough to come back from...I for one, think he deserves a second chance if he is truly repentent and if he is repentent, I hope he gets that chance.

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1st offf, im pro-Vick and anti-dogs (because they arent people) BUT

how is it possible to get an early release BECAUSE you have a drug problem????

This is insane!!! So if I commit a crime its in my best interest to start doing drugs in hopes of getting into a program that will give me an early release???

thats insane!!

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just a bunch of jealous racist haters jumping on a talented, sucessful BLACK man that aint done anything that the white man has'nt done before. It tears you people up 'cause he's got talent, money, good looks and can have any white woman he wants!

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He look like an angry black mens

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yes he has done somethings that were uncivilized,but who hasn't. dog fighting isn't any different then cock fighting. white people have their lives and us black poepole do too. it seems as if when we do something that the white people have done then the whole world wants to treat us has if we made the rules to break them. the rule makers are the rich white men/women who makes the rules only for them to break them. everything is groovy under a white mans eyes when he commit a crime. like torturing black people, hanging black people, setting them on fire, harrassing black people, and hell one white man even took it upon himself to eat a few of us. for the most part no one can judge another man without them being judged at the same time. With that been said, that means that only God can judge us and in the end he will.

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Roz ,One and Melinda your joking right? I know your not trying to put race in what he did?? if you do then your saying the african american cultures velief is animal crueltiy is ok as its a cultural acceptence amonst the african american community which is so far outside of not true you'd have to be retarded. This stuff comes from a smaller lower intelligence section of humans..not blacks not white not spainish just a much less intelligent being.Alot stems from having bad parents or lack of parenting.The process is passed down from idiot to iditots kids..Those who say give him a chance they were just animals are about as dumb as rocks.Life is life and those of you say its racist or no big deal I assume you must be god to pass judgment on what is most important on the scale of life.Vick just as anyone black or white or mexican or asian did something thats not forgivable and not acceptable.The reason he looks to be getting treated so harshly is he is in the public eye as what was to be a role model and entertainer.Its news that someone who had everything was willing to loose it all for doing something a basic child knows is wrong.When the ceos of enron got caught which were white they went to prison, they lost thier money, they lost thier homes and basically thier lives.When they get out how many ceo jobs you think are going to be waiting for them.Its a situational thing.You take what that particular person has gained and thats how you punish them.Vick has no place in the NFL as he does not deserve the chance to possibly try to jump in as a role model again and further his way of thinking to a next generation.All people who do this kind of thing to animals should not be allowed to pass it on to others.No matter what race color or nationality you are animal cruelty is wrong and it should be stopped.Someone mentioned cock fighting and white people..are you serious you do know thats a spainish dominated sport right ??Its all irrelevant to race all people who do it desrve the same.Loose their lives by death or by total destruction of what they have so they get a taste of what they are doing so the stupidity they wrap themselves with sinks in..Even if Vick still hates animals Im sure he wont be placeing a bet or going to another dog fight again now he knows there will be a price to pay for his sick fun.Well unless he is as stupid as Pacman Jones who for some reason is brain dead too..All the people with the best lives possible offered to them and they throw it away and then blame society and other people for thier stupidity.I got it maybe 1 year in prison for every animal he killed or abused sound fair right since if he killed a human he'd get 8-25 years per seems pretty fair right since he's not getting a murders sentence.

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First of all, Michael Vick is a Felon. Dog fighting is a Felony charge for a reason, it is a serious offense. Aside from that, what bothers me most is it is difficult to understand what kind of person could kill a living creature, be it human or not, in such a cruel manner as Michael did. Do you think when you hang a heavily muscled dog like a Pitbull that he just dies quickly? I can guarantee that there would have been minutes of struggling and fighting to breathe before death came, and I just know I, and most humans, even hardened criminals, could not sit and watch an animal struggling and fighting for life. It shows a disturbing lack of compassion as a human, it does not matter that his victims were dogs. So yes, I do believe in forgiveness and have certainly practiced it in my life, but I do not feel obligated to give it to everyone. I think any person capable of acts of extreme cruelty is broken. I have seen alot of discussion about the NE Patriots and why they should be more severely punished because of the fact that children love sports and the NFL, teams and players needs to set a good example. Dogfighting is already a serious problem with children in this country, especially inner city children. violence is all around them and they are being desensitized to cruelty. If the NFL lets Michael come back, we are telling the children "Hey it is okay to kill animals as long as you do a little jail time, we will take you back and you can make boatloads of money" I really don't think it is okay. Michael took a GIANT step over the line of what is right and wrong IMO and I do not owe him an ounce of forgiveness. I will save that for the people that deserve it. Quite frankly, I do not think Michael has paid enough.
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