I would have choked, too, had I heard what you did. [”And, I almost choked when one of the announcers said well in order to play football and have a successful team, players can’t be wimpy….football requires a kill instinct??”]

That’s the whole problem with football today. It used to be that pro-football required lots of ability [without drugs] and a fierce drive to win fairly. Nothing about killer instinct. Nowadays, no one gives a damn about how the player does it as long as the team wins. Money hungry SOB’s.

If you’ve never seen the video of brother Marcus Vick and the foot stomping episode, play the video. Replay it and watch him pause and then step on the back calf of the player prone on the ground. Marcus is number 5.

http://video.google.com/videop.....;plindex=0

And while you’re at it, check out this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01123.html

Oh, and check this out:

http://www.sexcriminals.com/ne.....00405.html [printed below]

Marcus Vick sentenced to 30 days

May 14, 2004, heraldtribune.com | Submitted by admin
Written By Chris Kahn

“Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick was cleared of charges he had sex with a 15-year-old girl, but he was convicted of serving alcohol to a minor. The charges stemmed from a late-night party January 27th at the Vick’s apartment. One of the girls said they were given shots of vodka and asked to strip and kiss. She said all three girls undressed and gave the players lap dances. One of the girls testified Vick had sex with her 15-year-old friend.”

This is what the Vick family is about. I wonder just how many scrapes big brother Michael was in the were kept hush-hush because of his status in the NFL.

Here is my comment about dogfighting. Someone asked me to post it here. Thank-you.

If there is anything good about the Michael Vick story, it is that there is an emerging increased awareness about animal cruelty and animal fighting. There is so much anger about this issue. If we channel it into a positive direction, hopefully, something good can come of it. However…

I watched Vick’s public apology with my little son who USED TO wear Michael Vick jerseys to school. It is disturbing to think a certain percentage of the population is honestly going to be swayed by Michael Vick’s “enlightenment” carefully crafted by his overpaid attorneys. Call me a cynic, but I don’t believe a man who has been allegedly torturing animals since childhood coincidentally has a religious epiphany as a result of getting caught and losing his job. I hope I am wrong.

I think it is a sad commentary that we, as a culture, are using the Vick story to compare “What’s worse?” “What’s worse”, we ask, “carelessly fathering illegitimate children, or dogfighting?”. “Dogfighting or gambling?” “Dogfighting or rape?” “Dogfighting or racism?” “Dogfighting or hateful nationalism?” “Dogfighting or (fill in the blank)….?” The comparisons to dogfighting have been endless.

Dogfighting is one more piece of evidence our country is in need of a spiritual transformation (please note I said spiritual and not necessarily religious). Animals are sentient beings - they feel pain, and they suffer, just like we do. They are not more important, or less important than human beings, but like human beings, they are important, too.

Dogfighting pits one dog against another until one of them dies. The survivor gets his flesh torn off, ears ripped off, eyes pulled out, etc., and the reward for being “a winner” is to writhe in pain until the next fight. Enough said. The pictures make my flesh crawl. The losers are tortured, beaten, starved, electrocuted or drowned. For what? Because these poor creatures were unlucky enough to be born a dog!

Every major faith teaches its followers to be responsible stewards of animals and the Earth. Please help us get the word out that caring for animals, just like caring for people, is an important part of just being a decent person and citizen. If we make this a priority, there will be no more dogfighting horror stories, and no more pointless comparisons of evils. Let us all rise, together, to be better people than we are today, shall we?

Chaplain Nancy Cronk
Founder, www.AnimalChaplains.com

what game were you watching?! i haven’t heard anything like that. yes, speculation as to whether he’ll play again, but nothing that over rated his talent too much and certainly nothing regarding the instinct you need to play football. i’ve heard a lot of disgust for what he did with the dogs and his career.

I hope America wakes up and begins to re-evaluate who they look up to as hero’s and who they support with their money.

And, I almost choked when one of the announcers said well in order to play football and have a successful team, players can’t be wimpy….football requires a kill instinct??

I agree with you all; it is time for the NFL and the NBA and every sports outfit and the entertainment industry to clean house and demand morals and ethics.

Katie