Michael Vick: Booed And Injured
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Is Vick Forgiven?
Vick gets severely injured and is booed as he is taken from the field for a medical examination for injuries he sustained during the Atlanta Philly game.
Philly.com reports that Michael Vick received a concussion during the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons versus the Philadelphia Eagles game.
This injury comes at the beginning of the NFL season. When Vick walked to the locker room, he was escorted by a doctor, trainer, and security guard while the crowed booed him off the field. He acknowledged his taunters, pointing to the scoreboard.
His homecoming was marked by disdain and outright hostility from some of the audience.
According to Philly.com, The Falcon-Eagles game was nothing less than a bloodsport. Vick did not survive intact. The Falcons defense attacked the Eagles with a ferocity that danced near the line of propriety during most of the game. Vick was banged around constantly. He suffered injuries deep into the third quarter while the Falcons continued their brutal attack on the Eagles.
Vick was thrown to the turf and whipped around. His head appeared to collide with a teammate’s. The quarterback was laid out in a pile, got up, was unsteady on his feet, then escorted to the sideline where he was reportedly spitting blood. He clutched his fiancee’s arm as shuffled slowly on a long walk to the Eagles’ bus.
The final score was Falcons 35, Eagles 31.
As long as Vick is a public icon—or even a private citizen—he is a sociological conundrum.
Depending on the person you talk to, he is a hero, villain, victim, role model, convicted felon, animal abuser and murder, vicious asshole, strong, and/or reformed citizen.
On the field, he is a dynamic, fearless, reckless, careless, courageous football player. Vick’s performance as a football player is not Vick the man.
That is the problem.
ESPN’s Ashley Fox, wrote Maybe this was fitting, that Vick would leave the building he once owned beaten and battered. Maybe it was only right that after everything they had been through with Vick. His homecoming to Atlanta was marked by boos from former hometown fans, bloodied by the Eagles, then banished for a medical evaluation.
Mad Mike’s America thanks Philly.com Sports, ESPN, and GQ.
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Look at what he did.. what kind of being does such things.. why give second chance.. fundamentally do you really think he has changed..
I stumbled across this site a couple of hours ago and have read all of your Mike Vick articles out of curiosity. There have been some valid points as well as statements that are just asinine blabbering that makes it hard to make it through an entire article because I feel like I came across PITA’s website. Living in the Philly area I am more prone to see the Mike Vick articles than most places around the country. Reading your articles is semi amusing because they are all a mirror image of credible sources that give actual NEW information. You are not portraying any new information what so ever for anyone. None the less, you wrote an article about football and it all comes back to the fact of his actions off the field going on now, 5 years ago. As one of your articles wrote, there were many articles when his actions came to light which were ignored because innocent dogs were being tortured and murdered. This is a country based on second chances and rooting for the underdog. It seems you do not have that American attitude, even with your law enforcement backround. I am sure you can find more law enforcement officials that have your attitude instead of the proud attitude that people can be rehabilitated. It is people like you that give people that learn from their mistakes dirty looks instead of a helping hand. Maybe instead of harping on Vick about this at every waking moment the opportunity presents itself, start writing about Donte Stallworth who killed a man while driving drunk AND speeding in Miami in ’09 and only missed one season? Sorry, but to me that seems to be a worse crime. In closing i should say this was my favorite line so far of yours, “But it was the suffering of nonhumans that elicited the most outrage, not just because their torturer was a famous athlete but because, well, those poor, poor dogs!” This was because their torturer was a famous athlete sir. Same reason OJ’s name is synonymous with getting away with murder, because he is famous. This is also why Tiger’s name is synonymous with a cheating husband. These articles wouldn’t have been a fraction of the attention they received if they were regular people, whether the crime is justified or not.
Well, PhillyPhan, thanks for stopping by. I agree that These articles wouldn’t have been a fraction of the attention they received if they were regular people, whether the crime is justified or not.
However, when an individual chooses, and obtains, public recognition, they must be prepared to have their lives under scrutiny. People tend to be reluctant to give those individuals a second chance. That may not be fair, but it’s reality.
I don’t root for murderers of any kind: that includes innocent animals. No one here harps on Vick every waking moment: that’s hyperbolic. I don’t have to forgive him, and I don’t have to give him a second chance. You can if you want to: freedom of choice, you know.
To respond:
1. The articles cited were in the news today – 09.19.11.
2. Donte Stallworth should be in jail for the rest of his life.
3. OJ Simpson is a murdering bastard who killed two innocent people (I don’t give a damn what the verdict was) and abused many women. He should be in jail for the rest of his life.
4. PITA is not PITA… It’s PETA.
5. Tiger Woods cheating on his wife is not germane to the article: that’s an issue between them. She’s got the choice to leave him. Vick’s dogs did not.
6. None of our “articles write.” They are authored by people.
7. Just because other athletes and other famous people do something wrong does not make Vick’s actions any less egregious.
So, PhillyPhan, if you ever stop by here again, and I hope you do, I look forward to your thoughts.
Peggy, as Mike wrote, if pit bulls have the right home, they are are sweet, loving companions. Their reputation is undeserved.
I’m usually a forgiving person, carthage623, but Vick did get quite a beating in the Falcons-Eagles game. We’re 50% of the way there…
I know the photos are probably photoshopped in the article and I understand the message but it seriously brings tears to my eyes to ever see a pit portrayed as agressive, resentful or dangerous. I am an old lady who has always used my good sense with my many rescues but honestly I have never seen a dog I know act this way. Obviously I don’t leave my canine family members tending my granddaughters but I wouldn’t leave a chihuahua to do that either. To me, pits are uniquely beautiful and I love them pictured featuring that beauty. 🙂
The thumb picture is most certainly Photoshopped Peggy, but the other one, the fun one, is probably not. I am with you when it comes to these wonderful dogs. I have several friends who have owned pits all their lives and they are warm, intelligent, gentle creatures. Their owners make them mean and that should be against the law.
He should be beaten and burned. Just like he did to those poor dogs.