Reactions to the Michael Vick Signing: There Is a Sickness Afoot in America
August 14, 2009 by dwil
If you think Michael Vick divided Atlanta, wait until you see Philadelphia and the rest of the country, Friday morning. Vick was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles Thursday to a two-year contract. The quarterback will earn $1.6 million this season with a team option for the second year. If the Eagles pick up his contract it will be worth $5.2 million the second year.
The reactions to Vick’s signing swing wildly from the insanely angry to those incredulous that anyone could bring themselves to a state of vein-popping anger over the crime for which Vick was sentenced. The voices dominating the morning shows sound self-righteous and are ignorant of the facts surrounding Vick’s case.
And the rhetoric used by these voices to condemn Michael Vick sound eerily similar to that of the people critical of President Barack Obama’s plans for health care reform.
The language is often coded racist. It is overwhelmingly White and it smacks of a nation with a collective illness.
The following are reactions to Michael Vick rejoining the NFL…
Last night during the Philadelphia Eagles-New England Patriots preseason opener, ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio reported news of Vick’s signing:
People are in a state of shock. I was walking around the concourses talking to people – people are just shocked by it for a lot of different reasons. first of all, every comment by Andy Reid over the last three weeks - to me on the first day of training camp, I asked if the Eagles were interested because I heard that they were. He said specifically – he told me he was very happy with his quarterback and he was, quote, “Not going in that direction.” And then two days ago when Chris Mortensen’s tour came through Lehigh University, Mort asked the same thing of Andy Reid and got the same response. So on that level everybody was led to believe it was not going to happen.
“But Kevin Kolb went down with an injury – he’s not available. They had to sign a player out of Temple – a completely inexperienced player out of Temple to fill out the roster at the quarterback position, which was temporary. And apparently the injury to Kevin Kolb may be more serious than any body has know about prior to today.
But it really is a shock. I’ve been going through asking people’s reaction and it’s been – to be charitable about it, very mixed - reaction from different people.
What people are doing is abandoning their seats, It’s really quite a phenomenon. People are abandoning their seats, walking around the concourse, talkng to one another, texting each other in a state of surprise and shock wondering why it was done and I’ve never been in a stadium like this where there’s this kind of big news of a signing.
“I talked to Michael Vick’s agent, Joel Segal. Vick is here in Philadelphia. Apparently there’s a (sic) introductory press conference planned for tomorrow here at the NovaCare facilities. The Eagles have already broken camp at Lehigh University —- but again, I don’t want to use this word over and over and over again – it sounds like a cliche, but people are literally in shock….
“As I walked through the concourse people were coming out of their suites asking me what was going on trying to get any bit of news about, you know, that Michael Vick was signed here.
“Like I said before Andy Reid was very specific and emphatic in saying he was happy with this quarterback [Donovan Mcnabb?] and that was not the direction he was going. And when I specifically asked him and I know Mort asked him about this, it was no question that he was not interested and they really didn’t want to make a specific announcement that they weren’t interested out of respect to Tony Dungy. They didn’t want to embarrass Tony Dungy by saying , “Uh, we’re not interested in the guy.” But it had to be the result of necessity. The one thing Andy Reid did say to me was – “…[I am an] honorable person who believes in second chances in this point in my life. I believe he’s a good kid. He told me that, he said it on the record to many people in this area that he was a good kid and deserved a second chance. And you know Andy Reid’s sons have gone through a number of scrapes with the law and this was something he was obviously very sensitive about and he didn’t want to close the door specifically and totally on Vick but everything he said led us to believe that the team was not sincerely interested in signing him.”
Paolantonio failed purposely to tell the truth of the reaction to Vick last night at Lincoln Financial Field last night. However, this morning on the Mike and Mike in the Morning radio-television simulcast “Sal Pal” said the overwhelming reaction from the throngs walking the concourses of the Eagles home field was “extremely, incredibly angry,” according to Mike Greenberg.
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With a huge photo of Vick accompanying it, The Philadelphia Daily News front page headline reads:
Hide Your Dogs
The online version of the Daily News does not include the headline.
Phil Sheridan of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote:
With their shocking decision to sign Michael Vick, the Eagles are taking an enormous risk. All that’s at stake is everything owner Jeff Lurie and head coach Andy Reid have ever said about what the franchise stands for, and they have put all of that in the hands of a man who went to prison for murdering dogs.
It just isn’t worth it. Not from a football standpoint, which is secondary, and not from any other standpoint.
And it would be nice if Vick has changed and dedicates the rest of his life to good deeds. It would just be nice if that happens somewhere else.
Let’s be clear about this from the very top:
Vick did his time for the heinous and despicable dogfighting operation he financed and operated in Virginia. He went to federal prison. He lost millions of dollars. Like anyone else, Vick deserves the chance to return to his chosen profession.
Just not here.
What has Michael Vick lost from all of this?
Twenty months of his life. In December 2004, with the Atlanta Falcons, Vick signed a 10-year, $130 million contract with a base salary of $9 million, and a $6.4 million bonus in 2009. This year Michael Vick also lost $15.4 million dollars from his previous contract and is instead earning 1.6 million. He also lost the remaining $45.1 million from the contract and potential $3 million in Pro Bowl bonuses.
Citing debts somewhere $10 and $50 million and assets in the same range, Vick declared bankruptcy in July 2008. Vick also agreed to pay Falcons owner Arthur Blank $6.5 million as part of his bankruptcy case. This was Blanks’s sign in blood money to release the quarterback from his $130 million contract with Blank’s team. In the two years of his incarceration Vick lost at least $16.8 million (according to USA Today‘s list of NFL player’s salaries). He also lost about $2.5 million in lawyer’s fees.
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Next we have Donovan McNabb’s take on the signing of Vick (it is a breath of fresh air ——- and intelligence)
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On MSNBC on Joe Scarborough’s show, “Morning Joe,” here is an example of the Vick talk:
A female co-host on the show said of Vick’s actions:
You have to have some sort of mental illness to do this.
Negro blogger Jonathan Capehart – oh, I’m sorry, Caprhart is an editorial columnist ”specializing in national politics and environmental issues”for theWashington Post. I could understand if he was simple a blogger because in the U.S. we’re long on people who want to have a voice and extremely short on people who have something intelligent to say, but this negro is a columnist for a nationally-read newspaper:
I guess people would have him give money to charities and animal causes and be a spokesperson. Personally, if he were to do that, that would just strike me as being, I don’t know, if he were to do that, given the severity of the crime, a little disingenuous. Ummm, I just think he should — great. He’s gonna have a new paycheck. He’s going to Philadelphia, he’s going to play in a sport where he’s very good. I just think he should just keep his head down, do his job and when asked express remorse, and I hope that there is remorse. One of my concerns is, when I wrote a column about this two years ago the number of emails and letters and phone calls I got from people who couldn’t quite understand why this was such a big deal. Many people said, “What’s the big deal. It’s not like he murdered someone. We’re just talking about dogs, we’re just talking about animals. That’s what concerns me.
Suze (the woman who made the above “mental illness” quote) might be right that this is a mental illness but unfortunately there’s a lot of people who claim he was suffering from a mental illness. But there are a lot of people who still, to this day, do not understand why Michael Vick went to jail and why and why what he did was so horrendous.
This is incredible. This Black house chimp obviously has no idea of the vagaries of Vick’s case but he is fool enough to insinuate that people non-plussed by Vick’s actions suffer from some mental illness – just like Michael Vick.
However, another female Scarborough, Morning Joe co-host asserted:
It’s such a polarizing issue. People —– well, there is kind of a —— look I know I’m gonna —– this is probably not the best word – it’ll get people angry – there’s a hysteria pertaining to animals and people who love animals and I do, I have a rescue from Hurricane Katrina. I love animals, I grew up on a farm.
But there is a sense of perspective in terms of what he did and what a lot of other people did out there who are churned out of our [prison] system and rehabilitate their carers after doing far worse things to children… And I think we just have to simmer down and see how it goes with this.
It was an amazing statement from a news woman on a morning show made in the face of virulent racists across the nation pressing every news and sports news outlet for their anti Vick sentiments to be heard.
And, in case you want to attempt to diminish the importance and breadth of the statement, consider that the July 29, 1987 front page headline in the notoriously conservative Washington Times newspaper read:
Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIP’s with Reagan Bush: ‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House
The documentary made detailing the child porn ring was to air on May 3, 1994, on the Discovery Channel. Five minutes before it was to be shown to the nation, it was mysteriously pulled. It has never been seen on television.
We have almost no sense of history in 2009 America. The above appalling scandal involving children, child sex, murder, and lawmakers from congress people to presidents exists on the lips of nearly no one in this country. It should have been a driving force in an historic sea-change of governmental control in the U.S. Instead, the signing of Michael Vick by the Philadelphia Eagles is on the lips of every television news person on every television network, every sports writer, and is featured in every national newspaper.
And, in the context of the Times article and the documentaries on the topic, Michael Vick did ——————– nothing at all.
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Addendum:
The following is a repost of the early morning’s ESPN radio show host’s “use of a racist term to describe Vick” report….
The term “Boogie Man” was originally used by Black slaves to describe the ghostly visage of White people who would come in the dark and kidnap children or slaves thinking of fleeing from the plantation.
In the 20th century, though, the Boogie Man got flipped. The term was used by Whites to describe Blacks; dark skin allowed Black people to lurk in the shadows and to use the shadows to kidnap and rape White women, and kill White children in the dark of night.
Thursday night, after it was announced that Michael Vick was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles, ESPN radio show host Dan Schwartzman said of Vick:
”I don’t think I’m being harsh in calling Vick The Boogie Man (emphasis mine). I don’t think I’m being harsh in saying you don’t want Michael Vick around your kids.”
It is an unconscionable act for any public figure to use this term to describe a Black person. And it is worse in the world of major professional sports in America, a world in which Black athletes are predominant, to utter the term cannot be forgiven.
Schwartzman got the go-ahead from his producer to run over his alloted three hour, 7-10 p.m. EST time slot to answer phone calls from listeners. A woman named “Lisa” called in and said, among other things:
You’re not wrong [Dan Schwartzman] for calling him [Vick] the Boogie Man. This only goes to show how hypocritical this organization is.
Later, of Vick she said:
….and they bring in Public Enemy Number One?! This guy is a scumbag… There’s no forgiveness in my heart.
Just after “Lisa” called a male caller said:
“To let go of the heart of this organization and in the same offseason you bring in the Boogie Man in Michael Vick?”
Schwartzman’s racist diatribe emboldended callers to spew their special brand of Philadelphia racism in Vick’s direction. As Schwartzman said near the end of his broadcast, about 90% of the callers expressed their distaste for Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles management for signing the quarterback.
Team owner Jeffrey Lurie, President Joe Banner, and head coach Andy Reid were all called “scumbags” by callers. But the bulk of the fan’s venom was saved for Vick.
And for many of the callers, “Boogie Man” was their term of choice to describe Vick, thanks to Dan Schwartzman.
Will ESPN fire Schwartzman – or, at the very least, suspend him?
We will see where ESPN stands on the issue of racism.
The reactions to Vick aren’t surprising, given how the commentators and PETA folks stoked the flames when he was under investigation for dog fighting. I still find it crazy that any NFL team would even cowtow to PETA under the threat of them picketing. These folks aren’t buying tickets anyway, and for the few folks that might give up their tickets because of Vick playing for a team, their seats will be filled by someone else.
I flipped between Morning Joe and Mike & Mike this morning while getting ready for work. I heard Suze make the comment that Vick must have a mental illness. Sounds like she’s been listening to that Ingrid Newkirk and her calls for Vick to have a brain scan before he’s allowed to play again. I also saw the guy from the Washington Post. He was the token that good, down home white Americans needed to see to prove that all black folk weren’t for Michael Vick and that a few thought like them.
I also saw the part on Mike & Mike where Sal Pal was talking about how folks were leaving the preseason game after they heard that Vick was signed. I know the Big Disney tends to exaggerate and I seriously doubt that many folks left the game because of Vick being signed by the Eagles. There might have been a few, but it sound like more of Disney trying to influence minds once again.
Dwil& kos – Espn can not handle the fact that Vick is getting a second chance. Their bias is painfully clear. The overwhelming response from most current players and coaches is that Vick deserved a shot.
As Dwil has chronicled very well on this site, there has just been a clear concerted effort by Espn to keep the heat on Vick and anyone who dares to try to have some perspective on this thing. Reports by McNabb and Gruden giving intelligent commentary are immediately followed by sensationalist drivel by Sal Pal and the rest of the crew. One of them was rambling on and on about how this was the worst city for him to go to. Complete BS. I’m sure “certain parts” of Penn will be up in arms but come on. I highly doubt that people were leaving in droves.
I missed the Scarborough show but at least someone said something. I’ve been screaming that at the top of my lungs. But now I really am wondering if the average person really understood how many true criminals are out there. Rapists, child molesters, robbers etc none of whom spent time in the penn.
Here’s to hoping Vick can prove everyone wrong.
Oops – sorry, dwil, you beat me to the Vick reaction/town hall comparison. I threw a comment up on your last post about it, but you had already figured it out. Things don’t seem real post-racial right now.
Isn’t PETA’s statement about Vick that they issued upon the signing a bit hypocritical? Vick’s plea agreement requires him to help PETA combat dog-fighting in urban areas using Vick as the spokesman, well….the “example” of what will happen to you if you engage in that treatment of animals. OK. Fine.
But then, for PETA to use the guy as a tool for its worth agenda, and then piss on him getting a job in pro football? It smacks as quite nasty to me, and I wouldn’t give PETA a damn dime after this stunt they pulled.
As far as base negativity? The punk bitch in Hagerstown Maryland that brought a sign to a healthcare rally that said “Death to Obama. Death to Michelle. And her two stupid kids” and the guy wasn’t even arrested and charged? We are living our last days, folks. A white man threatened the President of the United States AND the First Family in public and he wasn’t thrown to the ground and handcuffed by the Secret Service? What. The. Fuck.
PD, Vick is working with the HSUS, not PETA – although the HSUS is really just their less-radical, more down-low cousin.
I’m listening to the press conference and I want to punch half these reporters.
dcnbalt-
Yeah, I just left comment to you on the other post… it’s cool…
Well, the honeymoon is officially OVER! Barack had 30 days to get everything squared away and another 30 days to fend of criticism for failing to solve all the nation’s ills in the first 30 days.
Now, it’s backlash time (and I did say this would happen when he was elected and people said, now way!.. oh well) and fear of a Black man makes people call Obama the Boogie Man just like Dan Schwartzman called Michael Vick the same name.
WELCOME TO AMERICA.
That townhall….errr…press conference will not satisfy the teabagging birthers. Vick needs to show his long form birth certificate.
Eh, like anyone’s shocked. We’re all saddened and probably angry, but after watching the birthers, teabaggers, and insanity expressed at the health care town halls, to expect anything less than outright virulence at Mike Vick would be naive. If we had any sense of history in this country, no one would ever dare utter the words “post-racial.”
What I find particularly interesting in the case of Vick is that his new teammates, the players who’ve spoken up, and the coaches in the establishment (Gruden, Dungy, etc.) are the ones who see this clearly — as far as his career and why he’s still worth a shot on a roster. Everyone else — sportswriters, analysts, the news outsiders — don’t have a freaking clue.
There are many white people (not all) not dealing well with their impending minority status and all the things represented by that (black president, brown millionaires in any field, etc.)
Why are people so upset? Are all these people expressing disgust at the signing of Vick vegetarians? Were they as outraged at Sarah Palin shooting wolves from an airplane? Or did most of them vote for McCain/Palin? Do I ask rhetorical questions? As far as Obama, I think he’s a DLC corporate shill, bought and paid for by Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Also a war criminal for the drone attacks killing innocent Pakistanis. But these idiot protesters calling him a communist? Personally I wish my vote for Cynthia Mckinney could have been multiplied by 150 million, then you’d see some real s***.
TO ALL-
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Of course the topic was Vick…. I’m on the final 25 minutes of his show.
Well, I’m off to the bull fights! Enjoy!
D McNabb is a G. T. Dungy is a G. What you are seeing is how ‘corporate brothas’ are supposed to do it. McNabb was pissed that the Eagles drafted Kolb. Now he has just helped pick his replacement AND given a brother a second chance.
Now, you can talk all day about Dungy’s conservative politics and religion, but he ‘hand-picked’ his successor in Indy (Jim Caldwell), mentored Lovie Smith, gave Mike Tomlin his start. I’m sure he’s thinking, ‘I might have had to wait a long time for my shot, but once I get in the door, I’m bringing a whole lotta folks with me.’ Ironically I think it’s Dungy’s conservative beliefs that gets him a foot in the door, kinda a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing.’
Ron Jaworski was clearly agitated by hearing Michael Vick was going to be part of the Eagles. Even Jon Gruden “called him out” for his player hatin’.
Jaworski wore #7 for the Eagles during his playing days. Now VICK will wear it in Philly..
For a guy to be critical and put down Vick, I looked back at Jaws’ record as a QB. His career passing is 72.8 and Vick’s current QB rating is 75.7. Jaws has only been to one Pro Bowl while Vick has been to THREE.
Jaws’ face is cracked, as is a bunch of other folks who were campaigning heavily for Vick to be signed as the punt returner/wideout/slash/towel boy with the Raiders for $7 an hour. Anything more than that and its so unfair!! This is wrong!!
“I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!”
Fuck’em.
Brotha D as always you laid the smack down on this.
@spaceghost……………..thats real talk man, in corporate america thats how “real” black folks hold down other black folks. Dungy and Mcnabb are real Gs straight up.
And I couldn’t agree more on what you said about Dungy he plays that role to a tee. The brotha has done a lot for black coaches.
Sista Miranda Jaws is gonna be sick………..him and Sal been lying and making stuff up the last 24 hours.
I love how ESPN is twisting this. First when it looked like Vick was going to a team with a golden boy he wasn’t good enough to play QB. He was a WR or KR…..and was never a good QB.
Now he backs up a Black QB (a top 3 QB in the league at that) and all of a sudden Vick is good enough to be a starter. And will be threatening Mcnabb for a starting gig.
LOL!!!!
These fools are a joke…………………get ready for a year of the MSM trying to devide and conquer some brothas.
The difference is that these brothas respect and trust each other. Plus one is an introvert and the other is an Extrovert. One shuns the media and keeps them at arms length and the other has no intent or need to speak to the media.
So it looks like a year of the bigots at Profootball talk and ESPN making shit up about Mcnabb and Vick.
Oh and Miranda…………….Obama in office, Tomlin wins the superbowl, Kobe wins a ring and Vick back in the NFL.
Man its been a rough year for the good ole boys.
Strom thurmond probably turning in his grave…………yes they truely want their country back…..LOL!!!!
on point as always dwil.
the language around vick ranges from coded racit to straight out racist.
and this quote for lurie is some whole other shit:
“I needed to see a lot of self-hatred in order to approve this,” Lurie said.
self-hatred – wtf? remorse, fine, whatever. but self-hate? as par for the course as this point of view is, it is still some unbelievably shameful shit.
I just read that on another site Nicole…I wont repeat here what I actually said out loud, which did involve wishing something really bad on Jeff Lurie….and his damn dogs….I’m trying to repent for it now because trust me I scared myself with that thought.
Yeah Nicole I remember when that SOB said that crap. Wanted to choke that fool.
Then Lurie came with the “I had 2 dogs that died and I think about them everyday of my life”.
Whatever…………..I swear when that SOB was talking I thought I heard violins playing.
The shit was like a bad Disney movie.
Michael Vick is a Philadelphia Eagle. Man, I can’t believe that I just typed that a full day after the fact because I didn’t see this. I would have been happy with Vick signing with a team and resuming his career but to have him go to the team I live and die with and playing with a player I think is in public one of the best guys in the NFL in McNabb just has me so excited that I could just spit.
I’m enthused of course about the ways Vick can contribute to the Eagles this season but I’m just as proud of McNabb laying it out there like he did in his PC last night. He’s not threatened by Vick being on the team. He lobbied to bring him to Philly. He put the quash on the talk about Vick changing positions. This is brothas working together and if there’s any karma those two will work together to get a title and kill the myth of a Black man playing pro QB as nothing more than a glorified wingback a little bit more.
I told people today that my dream scenario for the Eagles and McNabb is that once he hoists the Lombardi in Miami in February that he hands it off to Reid, steps off the podium and out Dolphin Stadium leaving his jersey right there on the field and tell every fairweather Eagle fan to kiss his black azz because he’ll never play in Philadelphia again.
Hey, I can dream.
These right wing, holier-than-thou types are total hypocrites. They more upset about what happened to the dogs, than what happened to other humans at gitmo. Of course they cheered that on to satisfy their blood lust, but dog fighting suddenly makes you the worst person in the world.
On the news tonight I noticed how majority of people speaking most loudly about this are middle aged women who probably don’t know the difference between a cornerback and a fullback.
I thought things would get better when Obama was elected in, and it was a step in the right direction. Looks like things are turning out to be worse, with all the racist cockroaches coming out of their cracks now.
…..”These right wing, holier-than-thou types are total hypocrites. They more upset about what happened to the dogs, than what happened to other humans at gitmo. Of course they cheered that on to satisfy their blood lust, but dog fighting suddenly makes you the worst person in the world…..”
I live here in Georgia, and it has been awhile since I have listened to sports-talk radio–especially since late 2007. However, I wanted to hear how Vick was talked about on those talk stations. Philadelphia has two sports talk stations. One is WIP and the other is AM950 ESPN Philadelphia.
It is wall-to wall ANTI-VICK. If you happen to challenge the hosts, they will talk all over you and then cut you off. You may here a sprinkle of black voices, but it is like the Sports version of the Rush Limabaugh show.
Ike Reese (a former Falcon and Vick teammate) is on WIP-AM , but he is generally on between 7pm-11pm. However, there are stretches of time you might not hear him for weeks or his opinion, because WIP is the flagship station of the Flyers and Sixers.
…..” Now he backs up a Black QB (a top 3 QB in the league at that) and all of a sudden Vick is good enough to be a starter. And will be threatening Mcnabb for a starting gig……. These fools are a joke…………………get ready for a year of the MSM trying to divide and conquer some brothas….”
Origin:
You are right !
It seems Jaworski and Sal Pal will be leading the ESPN pack with their fake reporting over the course of the season trying to DIVIDE AND CONQUER and make up stuff…in regard to Vick and McNabb…
Ike Reese from WIP in Philadelphia said this:
As for Vick’s locker room presence, Reese said that Vick was never a disruptive teammate in any way.
“Michael Vick was Atlanta, period,” Reese said. “One thing I’ll give him credit for is that he didn’t carry himself that way. He’s more of an introverted kind of guy.”
Patrick, you and monsoon are right.
It’s amazing how the conservative hero, Boss Limbaugh, and other conservative radio talk show hosts hated PETA for years. Now, these disillusioned people let these same conservatives use them in their vendetta against Michael Vick and African-American men. Now, you can’t get conservatives to say anything bad about PETA!
Sadly, throughout history poor whites & poor conservatives have always let rich conservatives use them in attempts to enrich themselves. And they use African-Americans as the scapegoat for all of the ills that result from predatory capitalism. How else could they have convinced them to fight for slavery and protect a slave system that only enriched a few, when the majority of Southerners owned no slaves? How else can they convince them that spending their tax dollars on perpetual war & tax cuts for the rich, as well as support of a system that denies them health insurance is in their best interest? How else are they able to absorb the hypocrisy and contradictions offered up daily by the right wing? Easy…poor conservatives have been conditioned to not mind suffering & the evils of the corporations (the equivalent of liberal “chicken-eating preachers” and Reverend Chickenwing”) as long as they can look out their window and an African-American is living worse than they are.
William Blum, in his introduction to Killing Hope, said it best. To paraphrase, there are three things to define Americans in the past 50 years: Conservatism, decency & intelligence.
If an American is intelligent and Conservative, he is not decent.
If an American is decent and Conservative, he is not intelligent.
If an American is decent and intelligent, he is not a Conservative.
PETA = Hypocrites. They actively pursued putting each and every one of Vick’s down after the raids – independent, passionate, expert dog behaviorists from BADRAP and the Best Friends Sanctuary lobbied and were allowed to come in and evaluate. As a result of that intervention, only two or three were put down, 22 of them are living at Best Friends and 25 have been placed in loving foster homes (a few of them have completed training in service positions, too). PETA proved to me that they are more about grabbing the spotlight for themselves than putting the spotlight on problems AND solutions.
And I’ll say it again. There are only two kinds of Republicans: millionaires and suckers…
it seems to be a decent move to place MV7 in Philly to get some tips from McNabb and tough love from the fans. I’ll say he’ll stay the course and get traded to another team for a starting gig if he proves himself.
No comment on any bloodsports…
Peta has decided to capitalize on the hate for Mike Vick and the American negro, their decision has not gone unnoticed. It might work in the short term but it is a huge mistake.