Guilty Plea Would End Mike Vick's NFL Career

Ya think? Court findings or not--the guy is finished. This was a guy with too much hype behind him and an owner who favored him above all the other players and payed him too much money for what? Cause he could run fast! Big deal--got them nowhere and just Vick all over the field, is my opinion of the mess.

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I know Goodell is trying to be tougher on criminal behavior than Tagliabue, but still it bothers me that dogfighting would end Vick's career, while other players such as Ray Lewis are still playing.

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Let the animal rights groups protest all they want...no one cares and it won't hurt the NFL. I don't like Vick at all, but their threats of boycotts and protests carry no weight at all.

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Ray Lewis was not guilty or even indicted. Vick is now indicted and will likely serve time. Too bad his sub-par performance was not noticed by Blank. He could have dropped him earlier for Schaub...oops!

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GOOD. A BAD PERSON WHO GETS WAT HE DESERVES. YOU CAN TAKE A GANGSTER OUT OF THE HOOD, BUT CAN'T TAKE THE 'HOOD OUTTA HIM. GOOD FOR HIM. A MAN OF LOW CHARACHTER, WHO WILL NEVER CHANGE.

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This is what high pay and uncontrolable boundries get the NFL> Go figure.

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His NFL career is over already.. I don't see how he can play another down again...

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it's so sad that vick's career is going to end like this. my question, is what is going on with these sports players, actresses, actors, school teachers etc;do they really think they are above the law????????? throw the book at them maybe just maybe others will learn from it!

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let them protest, they don't go to football games anyway and most football fans don't to much care for peta.i don't think that peta wants to stand in the way of a bunch of meat eating football fanatics.

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You people are all nuts. This story has been going full steam for less than a week, and already you've decided that he will never have a job again.
if Vick pleads guilty, he'll get a 1-year suspension. The PETA people are only clamoring this loud because thus far the Falcons and the NFL are supporting Vick. Once a punishment is handed down, everything will cool off a bit.

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I say lock him up and throw away the key, people like him are a disgrace to humanity. If he does try to play in the NFL this season he's going to be booed out of every stadium so he might as well throw in the towel now.

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It's True that Michael Vick has talent. But it was obvious he didn't have the leadership ability to be a major leading quarterback in the NFL. Vick has always been a time bomb ready to go off at any moment. If he pleads quilty or cops a plea, he should be out of the NFL for good, and that doesn't mean he goes on to be a sports analyst.
I'm glad the commissioner is cracking down on felons in the NFL. It gives the league a bad name.
So long Vick...never liked you...will never miss you. Have fun in prison you bitch. I hope they treat you just like you treated your dogs.

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Let's cut to the quick: Vick is a just thug with money. He will forever be tainted for his most recent dispictable conduct regardless whether beats the serious rap he's facing. The real question is does his team and its league have any expectations and standards for its employees? Impressionable youngsters are not going to be affected by Vick's heinous treatment of dogs, but they will be improperly affected if they learn Vick suffered no consequences from the Falcons and the NFL for his socially depraved, reprehensible conduct. The smart thing is for the NFL to place Vick on leave until his criminal case is resolved. The wrong thing is for the NFL to do nothing. If it opts for the latter, I don't need PETA to urge me to boycott NFL sponsors.

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Hey Vick !!!! Dont let the dog bite you on your ass on your way out !!!!!

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Look folks just so ya know he will recieve more than a 1 year ban from football if convicted or taking a plea bargain. First off his case is not comparable to pacman jones case as jones case is simply a state issue as for vick is a FEDERAL issue. Yes your argument will be but pacman jones case is about someone getting shot and drama at a night club. Vicks case serves even a higher purpose and not because of animals rights groups. Its the mere facts of the cruelty put upon " losing" or " not performing well " dogs. Going from shooting the dogs to electrocution. I wonder if Mike Vick there ever thought what it would be like if he was treated the same way he allowed his friends, family, and himself to treat animals. Vick is a sub par qb could be considered what him and others determined for their dogs as " not performing well " should be pour water over him and hook up the cattle prod??? The answer lies in the courtroom. A guilty plea or a guilty verdict will definately end his career for more than 1 year if not forever!

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listen lets just get to the honesty for a minute. thats extremely sad that if a man actually tells the world he did it and he was wrong he should be prosecuted by the law and the nfl. you think honesty is the best policy right. well i guess its not. this is a great message to send our children 'if you do wrong, dont get caught or there will be consequences. but if you do wrong, deny with every bone in your body.' now the honesty is this, if we were talkin about a proven qb in the nfl, a tom brady perhaps, or if vick had panned out the way the world wanted him to, this would not even be a news topic. they would have just blamed his friends, end of story. but now the lefty has been unsuccessful, has been injured alot, and got a coach fired, so we gotta take it to him. you gotta love the support from the fans man.

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Ok! Mike Vick is not my choice for humanitarian of the year award, however to put him in the poor house for his possible involvment in the mistreating of animals. Come lets be real, think back and remember these words. water hoses, cotton fields, whips, selling of humans, miseducation, segrigation, black farmers of america and much more then I care to mention. Still waiting for that big court date. Vick is probably not a mentor to very many people, however if those presidents can do what they did and still remain what they were or are why can't vick finish out his turm.

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I am a Vick FAN and Falcon Fan. I think everyone is convicting Vick before they hear the evidence as the media always do. I don't think he is guilty. I don't think the NFL will suffer regardless. But I do think if Vick doesn't play the Falcons will have an empty Dome. No one cares about this leave the man alone. This is just media hype. He will be fine. And he is innocent.

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Aaron- Get a knife and fork ready- you'll be eating your words soon. Did the Falcons have an empty Dome before Vick? No, they didn't. In fact ,before Vick's arrival, the Falcons went 14-2 and got all the way to the Super Bowl, and almost won it. The only way civilized people will show up, if Vick plays, is to boo and shout at him relentlessly. Speaking of forks- you can stick one in Vick- he's done!

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My female pit was thrown into the ring to teach males how to kill. Because she is part whippet, they apparently couldn't catch her. The ringleaders then decided she might make a good fighting dog, so they tried to torture her into aggression. Because she wouldn't "turn" after all their efforts at torture, they got pissed off and tied her to the back of a car to drive her back legs off.

After coming upon her limping out of someone's backyard, right rear leg open to the bone, left rear leg looking like a chainsaw had gone after it, my boyfriend dashed her to the vet. I was called at work and told she would have to be put down due to abused pit laws, and burst into tears. The vet said he wouldn't tell anyone about her, but that even if she weren’t put down, her legs would have to be amputated. I couldn't stop crying, and told him we just couldn't make that decision right away. My boyfriend and I took her home, and even though we are not religious, we prayed for two days solid for help. That Thursday, we took her back to the vet, fearing the worst. Instead, he came running out from behind the desk in wonder, even calling the staff to join him! Apparently her tendons and ligaments had started to bind and heal back together enough that he was willing to let us bandage her and monitor her condition.

$1000 in vet bills later, she is our healed angel baby - the best dog we two dog lovers have ever had - and I still cry 5 years out when I tell this story. By the way – we were told we were lucky - that normally what they do is light the dogs they can’t “turn” on fire! And that sometimes a third of all pits in Bay Area shelters are victims of full body third degree burns! My only prayer to this day is that I wish all these people who had never met one of these amazing dogs in real life would stop writing these opinionated stories about how awful they are, and just go to a shelter and foster or rescue one of them yourselves. You will find out that the main reason, besides strength-to-size muscle mass, that these dogs have been singled out for ring fighting, is that they love their human so much, they will do anything - including die in the ring for you - to make you happy.

My most painful story is a friend of mine who worked at a Bay Area shelter where at least one third of the dogs were rescued pits. She used to be the one to hold the dogs when they were due to be put down, and try to give them a peaceful death. She quit mysteriously one day, and I finally ran into her and asked why. She said she had been able to handle the situation until one day a black and white male pit came in, throat slit from ear to ear, full body third degree burns. She said she couldn't even fathom what kind of pain he was in, and as she was gathering him in her arms to hug him and talk him through his inevitable death, she began to cry uncontrollably. She said what did it for her was that the dog was more concerned for the pain she was in than his own brutal condition, so that as he was breathing his last breath, he was trying to lick the tears off her face. She said she just couldn't go back to work again because it had become impossible to see the brutality inflicted on these huge-hearted creatures, and she just needed to go away for a while. A long while.

Please folks, Michael Vick and these other people who do these things have no hearts - but the animals they so brutally torture do. Can we turn this into a dialogue about how to protect these magnificent human-loving creatures, and can some of these oh-so-opinionated bloggers please try to befriend at least one of these abused or abandoned spirits, before they write such uninformed and misguided stories about them? These dogs were not born this way, and it is a form of animal racism that they get singled out for these horrific fates! Please try to get some personal experience with these pitty babies, and then you will understand why we rescuers view this as being as important as the war or child abuse. Microcosm is macrocosm - what we do in the privacy of our homes is what we will do in the world - and pit bull torture reflects quite well the same values that would lead us into war without questioning our own motives.

Make friends with a pit bull today, and you will become a pit bull advocate with a much bigger heart and a much more painful understanding of the hidden violence our culture engenders through its championing of might over right, and its selling of its own bully tactics over any kind of diplomacy or understanding. These angels need understanding - they need as much love from you as they are willing to offer - and I pray we will become a society that raises the pit bull back to its all American dog status, as it was at the turn of the last century - Little Rascals, RCA, et al. All we are saying is...give pits a chance.

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