Vick a ridiculous pick for Philadelphia
I believe that Michael Vick deserves a second chance. I also believe that for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. I believe that someone in the great somewhere hears every word. And only that someone can answer the question of whether Michael Vick, the puppy killer, deserves a second shot at becoming a multimillionaire on Philadelphia’s dime. How many cons walk out of prison and hook up with the modest (by NFL standards) money offered by the Philadelphia Eagles?
We will pay the puppy killer more money in a single year than you or I have earned in our entire lives. How much does Vick make at discount contract prices? Let me put it this way: “When did you start making 50 thousand dollars a year?” (Still making that? Good for you.) Now work the next 30 years at $50,000 a year and that’s how much money the Eagles are paying the puppy killer this season.
I am not offended by Michael Vick. I am offended that my team picked him. What were they thinking?! Like the Eagles need Michael Vick to get people talking. What’s our worst fear? Eagles fans and commentators have a million fears, all of them justified and ridiculous. It comes down to winning and even winning doesn’t solve ridiculous. Michael Vick is a ridiculous pick for this city at this time. Michael Vick may as well have been one of them Nazis that Brad Pitt has been killin all summer. “We ain’t in the Nazi prisoner-takin’ business. We’re in the Nazi killin’ business.”
But maybe Michael Vick is not a Nazi. Maybe he’s a stupid young man who has seen his life presented to him like it hangs from the end of a rope. Maybe Michael Vick will do the right thing. In the meantime, I don’t want to be bothered with the notion that a puppy killer plays for my team. It is a distraction that adds nothing except gasoline to a hate-Eagles brew. Hell, I hate the Eagles already.
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So just because both of Reeed’s son’s have drug issues, and he can’t seem to fix those, he has decided to adapt Vick as a foster son who he can fix. Give me a break. First off, we don;t need another QB. We need a tight end, a defensive end, a middle linebacker.
And second, i am tired off this second chance garbage. Didn’t he get a second chance after the Ron mexico garbage? How about after the marijuana in a sports bottle? How about after he was caught smoking after he was indicted? How many second chances to be a decent, law abiding human being does one man get. (Though come to think of it, Travis Henry has had a dozen or two second chances). How much does one man have to screw up before he no longer gets anymore chances?
What Stallworth did was horrible- no one should get into a car drunk. And yes, a human being was killed, and possible a human being that would have been kileld if stallworth was sober because he supposedly jumped out from between two cars. But intent makes the whole difference her. Stallworth didn’t mean to be a monster. Vick did
When are we going to sign Favre? His shoulder needs some salvation, too. This makes zero football sense.
I swear, I am going to stone the first person I see wearing a #7 Vick Eagles jersey.
I swear, I am going to stone the first person I see wearing a #7 Vick Eagles jersey.
Brad,
I know you don’t mean that literally. But why don’t you bone him instead. Hand him a dog biscuit.
This much I know, any opposing team NFL stadium worth its balls will play “Who let the dogs Out” when Vick takes the field.
You thought a couple of guys throwing batteries at JD was bad a couple of years ago? They should hand out dog biscuits to the crows the first day Vick is eligible to play