An Open Letter to sports reporters about Mike Vick by Nils Lofgren

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Vick incites outrage amid cheers

An open letter to the men and women of the sports reporting community,

I am so disheartened and disappointed by your collective, lopsided praise of Michael Vick due to his recent spectacular on-field performance.
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Shame on the NFL for not banning him permanently.

How can we justify this saga to our children?

The fighting is bad enough. But when the dogs aren't up to their standards of violence, they'll beat the dogs against walls until they're dead, hang, electrocute or drown them.

And if the schedule is too busy for torture that day, they'll just shoot them dead as the poor dogs gaze desperately into their eyes for just one moment of love or kindness. But love is one thing those dogs are forever and viciously denied.

In addition to forcing the dogs to fight, Vick and his cohorts bred the dogs. A butcher is often called in to rip out the teeth and nails of these innocent canines, making it easier to chain them to what is known in fighting circles as a rape stand to be forcibly mated -- cultivating only fear, rage and hate in these blameless creatures. All of that to create more fighting dogs whose lives will just repeat a cycle of unspeakable suffering.

Well kids, although doing those things is wrong, two years after you admit to doing them the NFL will let you have a job that may lead to an MVP award and many millions of dollars in a new contract.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=5876114

Another opinion piece from ESPN about Vick. The lst one I posted was about forgiving Vick. This one is not so positive. I'm happy to see ESPN has a diversity of opinions in the editorial department.

See also Time to Forgive Vick: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5824801

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Some things are unforgiveable.

He falls under that category.

[JuniperLea]

2. +1

[emilyg]

3. +2

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[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Doctor_J]

6. That linked article by reilly makes me throw up

Vick seems to be a sociopath. He was suspiciously close to the murder of one of his old cohort this past summer. It is a shame that his football talent blinds so many to the actual character of the man.