I want your opinion on this Michael Vick business.
Part One:
I think after a man serves a year and half in prison and goes bankrupt making reparations he should be given the latitude of a 2nd chance. If you don't think that I want to know why and I want reasons, not biased conjecture. I get enough of that on Twitter.
Part Two:
Michael Vick served 18 months of a 23 month sentence and now has to deal with 3 years of probation. He was suspended from the NFL indefinitely and only recently received a conditional reinstatement (after 2 years).
Dante Stallworth killed a person while driving drunk and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 2 years house arrest and suspended from the NFL for 1 year.
I don't pretend to understand the inner workings of the Judicial System, but this seems like a gross miscarriage of justice to me. Your thoughts?
8 comments:
No, he shouldn't have a second chance. If I had to go to jail for 18 months, do you think my current employer would take me back? On top of that he's injury prone, and not a good example. Sports overall need to clean house of bad influences. I realize athletes are regular people too, but getting paid handsomely to play a sport is a priveledge, not a right. The NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and even the soccer fags should band together and make a blanket statement. No felons. Cut and dry. Allow all felons to finsh out their current contracts, and be completly clean.
*stepping down from my box*
As for Part 2,
I'm not sure who Dante is blowing, but if I killed someone while drunk driving, I would already be four inches into a prison ass rape by now, not working out so I can get back to playing sports in 12 months.
The two punishments are on completely different planes, but yes, Vick got it way worse. It just goes to shaow that in America, we like our pets more than people.
i think both situations suck. i think that dante should have gotten a more severe punishment, and i don't think either of them should be reinstated.
unfortunately, the NFL is a little different from the average job market.
I think Dante got off a lot easier cause of the circumstances. The way I read a few different accounts was that even a stone sober driver could have picked that guy off. Dante didn't go out of his way to hit the guy, stayed at the crime scene and was very quick to make a public apology. Vick as I recall engaged willingly in his crime, then tried to dodge the blame for a while.
It comes off to me as the NFL trying to act as an extension of the judicial system which I don't think is fair. I get that the NFL is in a perpetual struggle to clean up its image and that it needs to offer some kind of punishment, but it could be done more consistently, and independent of the legal system jail time. They both served their time in the eyes of the law, reintegration is supposed to be the next step.
I'm with Grant and Miss Kendra.
It's like that Governor from South Carolina. How many people could disappear for 5 days without a phone call and keep their job? I don't care what the hell he was doing; he went AWOL. When regular people get in that level of trouble, they don't get to go back to making 7 figures. Or 6 figures. They have a hard time making 5 figures.
And the DUI guy? This is hardly the first case of miscarried justice when money/fame are involved. And it won't be the last, sadly.
These guys don't deserve the death penalty, but they don't deserve to be put back where they were as if nothing happened, either.
Also, the details in Vick's case make him look like one crazy-ass m-f'er who needs some serious mental health care.
Dante Stallworth paid off the family of the guy he killed. He bought them off and they recommended to the court that he receive leniency. My broke ass would have gone to jail.
I'm with Gwilli. Playing professional sports is a privilege - if you can't follow the law then you're out. I think they both should be out of the league.
As for Vick, he systematically kept this heinous business going - a business he did not need for money, so clearly it was for enjoyment - for SIX YEARS. Do you know how many dogs died horrific deaths during that time? He was personally responsible for killing dogs that didn't do well in the fights with his bare hands. He tortured them, starved them, ripped their teeth out from their mouths. He killed them by electrocution, hanging, strangling, and drowning. And people think that a man like this deserves a second chance? I don't even think he is fit to be a member of society, let alone a player in the NFL making millions.
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