How Much Remorse is Enough for Michael Vick???
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The NFL’s Commissioner, Roger Goodell, isn’t letting Michael Vick out of the doghouse that easy. There’s some tough sledding ahead if he wants to earn a living in the league again:
Michael Vick, in the final stages of serving a 23-month sentence for bankrolling a dogfighting ring, will apparently have to pass another standard before he is cleared to return to the NFL. He must show remorse.
That’s the opinion of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback pled guilty and who will eventually rule if Vick applies for reinstatement after his July 20 release date.
“I’m not going to make a judgment until I know all the facts on Michael Vick,” Goodell said Wednesday, as the league wrapped up its annual meetings. “I think it’s clear he’s paid a price, but to a large extent he’s going to have to demonstrate to the larger community — not just to the NFL community and to me — that he has remorse for what he did and that he recognizes mistakes that he made.
“Everyone makes mistakes, but he has to show that genuine remorse in his ability to be a positive influence to correct the things that he did wrong publicly.”
Goodell did not specify how Vick must show remorse, and said he is unsure of how he will weigh various factors. On Wednesday, Vick was in transit from a Leavenworth, Kan., federal prison to an unknown facility closer to Newport News, Va., where he will testify in an April 2 bankruptcy hearing.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Labor filed complaints in federal district and bankruptcy courts alleging that Vick illegally withdrew $1.3 million from a pension plan to help pay for restitution ordered as part of his conviction — allegations that add complexity to his future.
Goodell acknowledged that Vick, suspended roughly four months before beginning his prison term, has been partially disciplined. But he gave no hint on how much of a bearing that might have on potential reinstatement.
Asked if Vick will be reinstated for the 2009 season, Goodell said: “I haven’t sat down and looked at his case. I haven’t met with him. I haven’t understood where he is. I’m not going to try to guess.”
The Falcons own Vick’s contract rights, but have ruled out a return and are attempting to trade their erstwhile face of the franchise.
Any takers? Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith said that while he is committed to Kyle Orton as his quarterback, he believes Vick deserves a chance to compete for a job.
“I would look at Michael like I look at every other prospect that’s available: He goes back into the pool,” Smith said. “That’s what everyone in society does. Martha Stewart went to prison. She paid her time. Now she’s back in society.
“Mike made a mistake, and he’s paying the price for that mistake. Once you’ve paid your debt to society, you have to say, ‘OK, let’s go on from there.’ “
Michael Vick has shown all the calculated remorse he can possibly show. What more do people want from the man?
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I hope he learned his lesson!
He served his time, leave the man alone! It would have been easier on him if he had murdered a human
the man did his prison time, what else should he have to do eat dog *****
HE will be in SF by 2010
That dog saying “help me, help me”
Goodell is saying what he needs to say to get Mike back in the league. His strong words will satisfy some of the fans that are on the fence about supporting Mike. I don’t know a thing about football, but the Falcons seem to be cutting off their nose to spite their face. If the boy is good and he is going to play anyway why not take him back?
He’s seriously damaged. After he gets about 10 years of counseling, we will see. Other than that, put a fork in it.
THESE ARE STUPID ***** DOGS… STUPID ***** DOG LOVERS DO CARE THIS MUCH WHEN CHILDREN AND HUMAN BEINGS ARE KILLED. STUPID STUPID DOGS.
@ gftiu
THESE ARE STUPID ***** DOGS… STUPID ***** DOG LOVERS DO CARE THIS MUCH WHEN CHILDREN AND HUMAN BEINGS ARE KILLED. STUPID STUPID DOGS.
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Word up.
@ MRS Rance
because they replaced him with somebody better
He’s gonna have to do a commercial smiling and letting a damn dog lick him in the mouth, like the “other” folks do with their dogs, to show them he has love and remorse.
@ Jay
because they replaced him with somebody better
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Riiiight…because no NFL team needs more than one solid quarterback. Gotcha.
I wouldn’t have him even before all this. He never put in the work to be a great QB. He never put in the off season time to master his craft. He can’t hit the broad side of a barn with his p*****es. Last season people talked about how the Falcon receivers “emerged” no they just had somebody who could accurately p***** the ball. Vick was a great athlete and got by on that, not a good QB.
Patrick Kerney(ex Falcon and now with another time):
A woman was raped in his house, she woke Kerney up and told him, he told the police and the woman, “I was asleep”-The woman,the alledged rape and the story went away.
Danny Hetly(ex Atlanta hockey player and now playing with another team)- fires up the Ferrari, picks up a team mate,gets drunk, wraps the Ferrari around a telephone pole, kills his teammate AND- Mothers Against Drunk Driving don’t say BO-about it.
Michael Vick gets involved with dog fighting and gets 2 years—–PRICELESS
While I agree with Cell Mate, far worse things happen to humans than what Vick did and go unpunished, I can’t say I’m feeling sorry for Vick. I have a soft spot in my heart for dogs and cats, what can I say? I can’t get down with what he did.
I hope they tack another 3 years onto the time that psycho who had sex with her dog is serving, as well.
Duh! It’s been a known fact that we pay a heavier price for our mistakes than our counterparts. (the solution)Put black judges on the bench who have a understanding of our plight. GO VOTE. A friend of mine missed the nomination by 400 votes(how sad) fortunatley he was appointed to the position by the state. Now come election time he has to go through the whole process of being voted into office all over again.
Wow…second chance means little to some. He deserves a second chance at making money the way he knows how. The fans will come around as long as he is good on the field. I thought prison was suppose to be a form of reform. If can’t give people the opportunity to show they have changed, how would you know they changed??? Commissioner, you should know that already!
Has this man not done his time. What he did was wrong but he has paid his price according to the courts. Why must we condemn people for life? What if it was us in his shoes? Should we have to pay for it for this long, or could we possibly move on with life and move past the bad decisions we made?
Vick should bank role an NFL expansion team called the Virginia B*****et Hounds and be the star quarter back. They should offer discount tickets to dog owners and hold dog grooming competitions during half time. Of course the mascot would be a dog. And to top it off, his jersey number would be…..K-9. Now if thatdoesnt say remorse I dont know what does.
demonstarte waht? Dude just did a bid in the pen, he apologized before he went in, after he went in and had to take a test for PETA…at what point does the punishment stop? Let this man play football, if he so chooses to do so.
***** these dogs!!! who cares? I swear if ppl showed more remorse about HUMAN LIFE then this world would be a better place. Boo hooing over some got damn dogs!This man already served his time.GET OVER IT!
Ruined his life over some damn dogs. Dogs people! All because we treat them as pets, that excludes them from Cows, Pigs, Chickens and Turkeys? C’mon! People have murdered and got better treatment.
Damn you would think this dude had a “toddler fighting” ring for all the ***** he is taking….I’ve seen dudes do less time over crack and murder….
FREE MIKE VICK.. THAT SNITCH T.I. IS DOING LESS TIME FOR MUCH MO SERIOUS *****.. BUT AS LONG As you
” do you ” get caught up and snitch it’s all good..
Nah homey ..***** that .. Vick you good in my book G
I want blood! We cannot forgive or ever forget what you did to those poor dogs..I dont give a ish if he lost all his possessions, he put that on himself….dumb *****!
I will continue to lobby with aspca to keep making him pay for what he did!
So goodkarma, you believe people should pay for bad decisions for life? you must have never made any bad decisions in life huh. I guess no one should have a shot at redemption huh?
just a few days a ago a 16 year old girl was Attacked and mauled by several pitt bull dogs/ where was or shall i say is peta when it comes to issues like this. i said it once and i will say it again a dog is simply a dog… replaceable a human is not. dogs fight everyday, a dof in heat will get *****ed everyday, some dogs starve to death everyday.
He paid for his crime…did the crime. Stop trying to lynch a *****in Brother PETA. PETA can kiss my toasted brown ***** after their last stupid ***** stunt of comparing Dog Shows to the KKK. GROW the ***** up..*****in Pink people. Always ready to kiss a *****ing animal all up in the mouth and go the distance for some *****ing critter….but can’t find comp*****ion for their fellow man? Eat a ***** PETA…eat a *****.
comp*****ion is okay. you don’t want bad karma remember what goes around comes around the bad you wish for others comes back to YOU
that’s for alll the peta people ^^^^
@ n.o. allday
Yes, I no I am not perfect, but i sure as hell wil never drown a dog, or strangle any animal or person. Are you serious, you acting like what he did was so trivial.
And I know some pitbulls are dangerous, but i blame there owners for not providing them with more secure environment, or training. That still doesnt make it ok for them to be treated that harshly.
So I will make sure that Mick Vick on all ppl like him will pay darely…trust!
dearly**
man, i went to a dog fight this weekend. that chit is big business where i am from. In louisiana ***** fighting is still legal but since its a white man pasttime its cool
Where in Lousiana jjones??
Karma sounds just like those hillbillies that were in front of the courthouse when Michael was being arrained. Yes…….I’m in Rchmnd, VA and I went out and showed my support for Mr. Vick. “Those” folks looked just like they crawled out of their trailer, or off their farm. Yes, some were actually drunk! What is happening to Mr. Vick is a modern day public lynching if ever I saw one. He still sexy as hell to me and because of what he has suffered, I’ll never own another dog in my life!
Dont know why black ppl so heartless when it comes to animals…jus sicken me
and the dog fight i went to the dog that lost get shot.
but if a n***a wanna shoot his own dog in the head, thats his decision that he must answer to. but i sure for one will not protest
GoodKarma4Me
Where in Lousiana jjones??
if you dont know then that must mean you are not in the click. man that chit big business all ova, texas, atl,flordia. but you can go to any state and watch a legal ***** fight, i know cause i use to go with my grandfather. Louisiana finally past a law against ***** fighting but it will be phased out and illegal in 10 years
@ GoodKarma4Me
Dont know why black ppl so heartless when it comes to animals…jus sicken me
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Just because we don’t ***** dogs, horses, and geese (lmao) doesn’t make us heartless. We simply turn the other cheek, quite similar to the way white people did when we were getting lynched and *****. Ya dig?
thats why i dont feel sorry for the crocodile hunter, he deserve to die f***g with animals. yall felt sorry for him, but black folk didnt give a damn. also the man who got mauled by tigers,white folk are crazy about animals
I am sorry I should rephrase..I mean ignorant black ppl such as yourself reese615…
Oh well I can’t change the world, but i will at least try.
try^
f**k dogs and white folks, they all deserve to die
@goodkarma
i don’t agree with the ignorant statements that you received, but I also Don’t agree with you. I am black and have 2 pit bulls, and would never put my dogs in harms way. Now with that being said what he did was wrong and he paid his debt, so why should he continue to be punished. I love my dogs, but i don’t value their lives over Human lives. dogs don’t have to work to get shelter, food, and worth. This man does, so leave him alone and let him live his life.
Quite honestly almost all of the posts here are disgusting. You say that animal lovers should value human life just as much they do the animals. Well we do!! However, I can pick up a paper any day of the week to see where black man kills black man. Talk about a hypocrite. Folks you don’t value a human life and you have no comp*****ion for the suffering. You are too busy telling everyone how the “man” has kept you down. Well that is bull*****! Even if Vick had killed another person you all would still stick up for his sorry *****. The black folks are keeping themselves down. Go out, get a job, have some self worth and respect. Stop having all of these babies and no name daddy’s that the system has to support. For once take responsibilities for your own actions. Everyone is getting tired hearing about how you were done wrong.
i mean really is all this necessary?
@suzie
you have got to be the dumbest son of a ***** ever and the sad thing is that you really believe that stereotypical bull***** that just sprouted out of your ignorant ***** mouth. WOW!!! and they say that racism and placism no longer exist, what a joke.
Yeah Suzie you full of *****.
We speaking about pitbulls and you jump into some racial ish…Ho sit your dumb as down!
@ Suzie..go ***** urself..all black men aren’t killers and baby daddies…unfortunately most of the examples of our men that u c r negative due 2 the popularity of this thug image b.s. thats goin on rite now but all young black men dont follow that example..u do have young black men that go 2 school get good jobs and get married be 4 they go make babies…just like all white people arent trailer park poor white trash..like the example that people like britney spears upholds…
I wish theyd leave this brotha alone he did his time…
Racism…that’s what this is….
suzie you stupid *****head,you sound like a dog *****er, yes a dog *****er.
those hoe ***** peta people are walking the streets of detroit right now, i should take my husbands pit bull down there and throw him on their *****es and see how much comp*****ion they have when he bites a plug out of one of thire *****es
I hope that he gets reinstated. I love him! This all happened at a bad time for him. I believe that the 07-08 season was going to be the one for him. He matured (on the field) and he said he’d been working hard. His body got buff and everything. (Hence the Nike commercial when he was talking about his “guns” and stiff arm) Oh well, all things happen for a reason. I think that he can be used for an advocate against animal cruelty and he can still be a role model for kids. He has been to jail so he already knows what it is like in there and he can p***** that on to kids. I have seen the pics of him and his daughter and you can really tell that he loves that little girl and that is his heart. I believe from now on he will make the best decisions for his family and hisself as well as the kids that look up to him.
Kudos all on shutting that ***** down first of all.
Secondly how much time he gotta do? he paid his debt leave him alone…its pretty audactious of the nfl commisioner to blatently say to the world “this guy hasn’t kissed enough ***** to please me, now Im gonna make him kiss some more ***** before I even think of letting him play again” – damn shame what we go through in this country
This whole situation is bs. Do these idiots know there are PEOPLE dying in the streets? ***** a dog. thats why when I see a dog…I kick it! Leave this man alone.
As for Vick,the point everybody doesn’t get isn’t the dog fighting. The NFL doesn’t give 2 *****s about dog fighting,it was the Gambling aspect of the case that got him in hot water with the league. The NFL has a ZERO tolerance policy towards anything gambling related and the fact that he was essentially involved in a GAMBLING ring is what cost him money. He will be back in the NFL in 2010 and probably in the UFL this year,but he has to prove that he has nothing to do with gambling whatsoever,because the NFL does not play around with that at ALL!
@ Jay: exactly!
They should leave the man alone. He has served his time. He has lost everything. He should be reinstated. He has to earn a living just like everyone else.
He paid for his crime…did the crime. Stop trying to lynch a *****in Brother PETA. PETA can kiss my toasted brown ***** after their last stupid ***** stunt of comparing Dog Shows to the KKK. GROW the ***** up..*****in Pink people. Always ready to kiss a *****ing animal all up in the mouth and go the distance for some *****ing critter….but can’t find comp*****ion for their fellow man? Eat a ***** PETA…eat a *****.
All this for some damn dogs. I didn’t see some of those damn cops showing true remorse for shooting some black men without a cause. I don’t hear reports of white men being shot in the back without a just cause by a cop.
If Mike Vick was white he would be all right.As much as I love dogs, they are just dogs…end of story. NFL stars rape women and get much less h*****le…they are just dogs.
They are just dogs!
MAN ***** MICHAEL VICK. HE KILLED ANIMALS THAT ARE MANS BEST FRIEND. HE NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL FOR LIFE. BOSSIP YOUR SIMPLE AS HELL ***** BEING BLACK OR WHITE HE GOT OFF LUCKY. HE SHOULDNT GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO PLAY FOOTBALL. DO THE DOGZ HAVE A SECOND CHANCE @ LIFE??
BUT GUESS WHAT EVERYBODY IS TALKING ***** BUT WHAT IF IT WAS ONE OF YOUR DOGS THAT GOT KILLED. HOW ABOUT I SEND EVERYONE A LINK OF DOG FIGHTING. SO YOU CAN SEE THEM DIE. OR I SEND YOU A LINK OF DOGS BEING KILLED AND ELECTRICUTED BY HUMANS I GUARANTEE EVERYBODY WOULD BE CRYING OR IF NOT THAT SAD. HOW ABOUT YA GOOGLE SOME VIDEOS THEN WRITE BACK AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK
[...] Vick is shopping around an apology book. The book is detailing the events that have taken him here. Well the PETA president is not having it: Jailed dog-fighter Michael Vick is looking for a book deal, we hear. The former Atlanta Falcons star, now serving 23 months for taking part in a dog-fighting ring, is said to have literary agent Scott Waxman shopping a proposal for a memoir. And People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is howling. “What will he call his book, ‘Vick: One Lucky Dog’?” asks PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk. “If Vick has started writing this book while in jail, the proceeds should fall under the rule that says a felon can’t profit from his murderous deeds.” [...]
Damn…looks like Mike Vick is gonna have to open up a kennel for lost puppies to get his job back.
I hope Michaelf Vick gets his face ripped off by a bit pull and bleeds to death. This isn’t a human being. It’s disgusting!
funny C*****, considering in all the time I’ve been here I havent seen someone write that they hoped Bush gets waterboardered/his daughters raped/or killed by one of the millions of Middle Easterners he’s killed….oh wait, that’s right, white people dont like Mike Vick so it’s ok for you chimps to pile on…nevermind w*****
Funny how all this mike vick ***** on this site comes from a bunch of siddity broads who a) probably just ate either a burger (i.e. a cow was killed), some chicken (self-explanatory) or the flesh of some other animal, which was paid for by money taken out of that same siddity *****s louis vutton bag (or some other purse made from the skinned flesh of some other animal) but wait, mike vick isnt a human being because he liked to fight dogs (which were better fed and of course more alive than any dog peta gets their hands on – see above links)….right…you white pole smokin broads ought to stick to subjects you know about – like swallowing rabbi’s babies while complaining about how “brothers aint *****” etc