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04-28-2009, 11:43 PM
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Michael Vick and Job offer
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns
New York arena team offers Vick a contract
9 hours, 14 minutes ago
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)—Michael Vick has a place on a minor league football team if he can get reinstated by the NFL.
The Albany Firebirds, an arenafootball2 franchise, have offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.
Vick quarterbacked the Atlanta Falcons for six seasons before being convicted of bankrolling an interstate dog fighting business.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has not said if he will lift Vick’s suspension after he completes a 23-month prison sentence. Vick goes from federal prison to home confinement next month.
The Firebirds’ contract offer requires that Vick donate $100,000 to a local humane society.
A call to Vick’s agent was not immediately returned.
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04-28-2009, 11:52 PM
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I saw this on yahoo a few minutes ago, and laughed my @$$ off...
$200 a week. Nice.
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04-29-2009, 12:16 AM
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LOL
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04-29-2009, 01:13 AM
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He has to donate $100,000 to be able to get a job that pays him $200 per week. Hahahaha . . . it'll take him 10 years to recoup his "entrance" fee.
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04-29-2009, 04:09 AM
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Vick playing for $200 a week = EPIC FAIL. Seriously.
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04-29-2009, 06:46 AM
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You know what...looking at it for what it's worth...the man paid for his crimes...he went to jail and lost his money and job and Lord only knows what else in that time.
How much more can he be punished for what he did?
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04-29-2009, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
How much more can he be punished for what he did?
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A lot.
You can start by mutiliating, shocking, hanging, drowning, and beating..........exactly what happened to many of his dogs.
There is no place for him in the NFL......where it is a privilege to play, not a right.
He still has money. Cry me a river.
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04-29-2009, 09:51 AM
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I guess the story isn't really a story anymore. I clicked on the link above and read this:
"The owner of a minor league football team that offered Michael Vick a contract told a newspaper he didn’t know about the publicity stunt and would not have approved it.
“I’m a dog lover and I don’t want anything to do with (Vick),” Albany Firebirds owner Walter Robb told The Times Union for a story posted on its Web site Tuesday night.
Earlier in the day, the team an arenafootball2 franchise, announced it had offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.
“That’s a joke,” Robb said. “Can you imagine him playing for $200 a week? I think (the offer) was a big mistake.”
The announcement was later pulled from the team’s Web site."
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04-29-2009, 10:10 AM
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A lot.
You can start by mutiliating, shocking, hanging, drowning, and beating..........exactly what happened to many of his dogs.
There is no place for him in the NFL......where it is a privilege to play, not a right.
He still has money. Cry me a river.
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He deserves to be shot in the balls. Plain and simple. There is a LOT more that should happen to him. He needs to be made to pay ALL his money to animal rescue groups.
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04-29-2009, 10:15 AM
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He shot rot in HELL.
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04-29-2009, 10:21 AM
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How much more can he be punished for what he did?
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There's also just the damage to his reputation. But that's what happens when people commit crimes. Your rep is going to suffer, and rightfully so.
It surprises me the amount of support Mr. Vick is getting in some communities.
I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who had an awesome NFL career, tons of money, multi-million dollar homes, and squandered it all just to participate in this kind of cruelty. I certainly hope it was worth it.
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04-29-2009, 12:39 PM
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If I was his agent I would tell him to:
1. Volunteer for a tour of duty in Iraq
2. Train hard for special forces
3. Write a book about his life after he got out of the military
4. Sign million dollar NFL contract as he is now "reformed"
I think that he's suffered enough already and would like to see the guy succeed. Its funny that we allow people who have taken other people's lives (Leonard Little, Ray Lewis) in the NFL but if you hurt a dog then they send out the lynch mob.
Last edited by PhiGam; 04-29-2009 at 12:41 PM.
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04-29-2009, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by PhiGam
If I was his agent I would tell him to:
1. Volunteer for a tour of duty in Iraq
2. Train hard for special forces
3. Write a book about his life after he got out of the military
4. Sign million dollar NFL contract as he is now "reformed"
I think that he's suffered enough already and would like to see the guy succeed. Its funny that we allow people who have taken other people's lives (Leonard Little, Ray Lewis) in the NFL but if you hurt a dog then they send out the lynch mob.
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They used to refuse felons from serving, and still should. I don't think he has suffered enough, because he still doesn't think that he did anything wrong. To him, it was just a dog.
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04-29-2009, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by kstar
They used to refuse felons from serving, and still should. I don't think he has suffered enough, because he still doesn't think that he did anything wrong. To him, it was just a dog.
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This is kind of a bizarre thing to say - first, because I haven't seen anything resembling these statements since he started serving his sentence (so you seem to be reading a lot into this). Can you cite anything in particular that gives you this impression? Or is it just general cynicism?
Second, the "to him, it was just a dog" portion seems like an odd choice of damnation - to you, it's a family member. To him, it's not. Why is he more 'wrong' in the abstract (i.e. removed from the actual cruelty)?
The guy's pretty f-ed in general - it'll take something extreme on his part to entice a team to suffer the PR backlash of taking a chance on him years after his last productive season (and there were general questions about productivity even then). I can relate to the anger and outrage, especially from dedicated animal lovers, but the guy's served his time and will now serve a very public penance. That seems like enough for me - he's lost the overwhelming majority of everything.
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04-29-2009, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by TexasWSP
A lot.
You can start by mutiliating, shocking, hanging, drowning, and beating..........exactly what happened to many of his dogs.
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I love animals, but wow. Just wow.
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