Captain's Quarters -

Aren't the prosecutors aware that Vick's been cleared of any wrongdoing by Clinton Portis?

[I]f convicted, the NFL should think twice before allowing him back in the game -- and not just for the cruelty, but for the gambling as well.

While the gambling in this case was illegal, it wasn't gambling on NFL games, so the league might not be terribly concerned with that. However, what should concern them is the company Vick has chosen, which does reflect badly on Vick, the Falcons and the NFL, and is exactly what got "Pacman" Jones and "Tank" Johnson into hot water with the league. In those cases, the NFL didn't even wait for a conviction to hand down punishment, and I presume they won't wait around with Vick either.

Clearly the guy is involved with illegal felonious dog fighting. Were it cats, the death penalty would be appropriate. Pure entertainment aside, Vick is (er, was) the most over rated NFL QB. Falcons gotta regret trading Schwab.

What a creep. Let's pay him millions of dollars to play football.

Atlanta Falcons Head Coach = Thankless Job.

Two ex Falcons head coaches who wised up and got outta Dodge were June Jones and Jerry Glanville, who have recently teamed up and turned the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors into national contenders (they were in the Top 25 last season). They both wear leis on the sideline during games.

Vick is just another "gangsta". I used to live in Atlanta and still follow the Falcons closely. The bloom is definitely off the rose as far as Vick is concerned. There are a lot of questions as to whether or Vick has the skills necessary to learn all that is required to be a successful QB in the NFL.

Vick IS a gifted athlete as an individual; he hasn't really shown that he is capable of utilizing those skills to move to the higher level required by the NFL.

Vick prefers to listen to his "posse" rather than the QB coach. He looks and sounds like a thug; yep, that's what the Falcons got, a thug!

Reading about Vick earlier this evening on the profootballtalk.com website, the most damning count appears to be that Vick and his co-defendants, Peace, and Phillips executed "approximately" eight dogs in April of this year that did not perform well in "testing" sessions, by "hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground."

April 25 is when Vick's kennel was first raided as part of a separate drug investigation, so the dog killings were allegedly going on right up until the time of the raid. Even if the NFL withholds any action pending further action by federal officials, it's hard to see Vick's participation with the Falcons this year as being anything less than a media circus.

Dog fighting? Yes, my friends, this is exactly why the pathetic FBI is stained forever by their ghastly failure over 9/11. Clearly, they have learned absolutely nothing and continue to waste precious Federal resources on popular nonsense in which they have no business. They are well on their way to another massive failure. What next? How about investigating New York teenagers, under the Mann Act, for taking their girl friends two miles over to Hoboken, N.J., for “immoral purposes” (this was one of Hoover’s great favorites of interstate crime). The FBI is not in the game, and apparently never will be! Clearly the entire top management of this positively silly, ineffectual, agency must be terminated and replaced with competent officials, such as those that cleaned up New York City. The FBI is, and remains, a joke! They have made another elaborate Federal case out of a matter that could have been resolved by sheriff Billy Bob of Virginia in 48 hours! If the bozo in charge of the FBI was directly responsible to the people of this country, much like a big city police chief, he would be out of office faster than it would take sheriff Billy Bob to resolve the great dog fighting scandal!

Vick initially said he had no idea the property might have been used in a criminal enterprise and blamed family members for taking advantage of his generosity.

If he partook in this "sport," as management I hope he gets the same restraint as the abused labor... namely incarceration. The chains can be replaced by bars.

If he's any good at basketball then all he needs are two more felonies, preferably carjacking and narcotics distribution. Then he'll be eligible for the NBA draft.

This could be a real test of Commissioner Goodell's "get tough" on bad behavior policy: Pacman Jones was one thing, but Vick is a legitimate (albeit media-created) money-drawing star. If he wants the League to have any credibility in its "clean up" drive, he has to treat Vick like any other player.

What, John Adams' children were kidnapped and child porn of them is being distributed daily? Let Billy Bob handle it. We wouldn't want John to get mad that the FBI is investigating crimes other than those that HE thinks are important.

This is ridiculous. The feds are involved? The FBI is unconstitutional, and this just goes to show why the federal government was never intended to be involved in law enforcement. It also says something about our society that the so-called 'crimes' of gambling and dogfighting are illegal. Is there any invasion of person or property involved. No. So it shouldn't be a crime (I know, I'm an idealist). The NFL, or any organization, would be wise to drop Vick like a bad habit. No one in their right mind would want to be associated with someone who could do those kinds of things to dogs. See, the free market has ways of dealing with this kind of thing. Absolutely no need for government to be involved.

It looks like the NBA is going to follow the lead of the NFL under Goodell and try to rid their league of the influence of gangstas and posses. Stern has apparently had enough of Jackson and Artest and the acts of others like them, but he never would have taken his recent steps to hand them mini suspensions but for the fact that Roger Gooddell has given him cover by suspending Pacman Jones for what may amount to the whole season. I doubt that Vick will play this season, and may be done for his career.

I get the impression that John Adams got into trouble for taking a teen into Hoboken at some point. Although I don't see why he expects us to care.

John Adams, is obviously not a dog lover. To me, I'm glad that the FBI is doing the job of stopping jerks like this quarterback from abusing poor animals....anyone who can so easily treat a dog badly is not a moral person in my opinion.....

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Hanging's too good for those who engage in this sort of activity.

If true, then he needs to go to the Special Hell (normally reserved for child molesters & people who talk during movies) for this. It's not like cock-fighting where the roosters would naturally fought each other to the death if they met in the wild. The dogs have to be "trained" to do this, and by "trained" i mean that they're mistreated to the point where they're beserk.

For those that belittle efforts such as this combating animal cruelty should remember that before we had laws against harming children, we had laws against harming animals and the first case regarding child abuse used animal cruelty laws to prosecute!

Dog fighting, along with cock fighting, is one of the most brutal 'sports' that we force animals to engage in.

People love to claim that we in America are mimicking Rome when we celebrate the violence in football or hockey, but the reality is that those that make light of dog fighting and its cousings are much closer to those long dead Romans than those who watch a Sunday afternoon football game!

Just FYI, but the Falcons already traded their backup QB, Matt Schwab, to the Texans back in March.

http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723293/

But I forgot that they signed Joey Harrington As one commentator pointed out today, Harrington had a better statistical year in Miami than Vick did in Atlanta.

Michael Vick is nothing but a ghetto thug and the dogs that he fought and tortured have more loyalty and a higher IQ than he does.