Now I do not justify what he did, but he was stood trial, and was judged by a jury of his peers, and has served his sentence. Let it go folks, they were dogs, the punishment fit the crime, its done. There is a reason that the “double jeopardy” clause exists, but there are those of you that want to punish him again and again. Obviously you have never played the game of football. It is a violent and sadistic game that is equal in its sacrifice by its players to that of Roman Gladiators. I don’t know if MV has any remorse or not. If he does, it probably ‘cause he got caught. But to the point, you can not play professional football without some level of sadism, or masochism, or both. So do we do away with football because it fosters bad behavior, in that case let’s do away with all professional sports, hell lets do away with sports all together, Maybe we should do away with all competition and become liberals living off what the government decides to hand us. The best we can hope for is that some big ugly mean as hell line backer gets a hold of him and tears his arm out of its socket. Then would you be happy? No because football is bad and violent… here we go again.

Saying that NFL players are sacrificing themselves in a way comparable to the Roman Gladiators is profoundly ignorant, but the real issue here is Vick and his future, and the lessons that can be drawn from it. He certainly did do his time in prison. Since release, he’s said all the right things to indicate a change of heart. But that’s hardly the same thing as having grown a conscience while behind bars. If Vick were only a few years younger, and if his entire history were taken into account — not just the dog-fighting ring, but the drug possession, spreading STDs to women and then facing a consequent civil suit, flipping off the fans of the Atlanta Falcons with both fingers when they booed him, hanging out with low-lifes who were caught on camera stealing from security guards at an Atlanta airport, and lying, again and again, both to Falcons owner Arthur Blank and a federal judge, about his role in fighting and murdering dogs — and that’s not all of it — then Vick would be labeled a sociopath and handed over to social services. But instead, he’s a grown adult who can hit a receiver with a pass at sixty yards. And that, apparently, is what has “earned” him a second chance that none of us would have gotten. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has stated several times that playing in the NFL isn’t a privilege, and that a player’s character counts first. But maybe one can’t do anything so bad that it won’t get an eventual pass from the NFL front office, and encourage Tony Dungy to act as your own personal Mother Theresa. Michael Vick is getting kindnesses and indulgences far beyond what he has shown himself to date to be deserving of — as it was in college, and as it was in his first time around in the NFL. Here’s hoping he doesn’t collapse a second time; yet I’m reminded of what Arthur Blank said when he cut him from the team: “Michael Vick is neither the player nor the person I thought he was.”

When a business man gets busted for what ever crimes they commit against society are they forever band from being business men ever again? Not usually. So why should some one convicted of a crime that had nothing to do with their profession be band from continuing to exercise that profession?
As for the remarks comparing Roman Gladiators to football players, the connection my mis-guided friend was that they both sacrifice their bodies/lives for the entertainment of the masses.
I guess my point to all this is don’t we have more important things to focus on?

You gotta admit, his performance at the game was amazing.