Vick's two co-defendants to make plea deals! »
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Two more of Michael Vick's co-defendants have reached a deal with the government. Quantis Phillips and Purnell Peace now have court appearances later this week before a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia where they are expected to enter guilty pleas.
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RedRiverJ1 year ago
His buddies are turning on him, interesting to see the rats jumping off a sinking ship. Gotta love it! WHY on earth would anyone with Vick's football talent, fame and wealthy do something like this? Not for money. He must have a huge ego problem. I mean it takes a big man to fight dogs, beat them with chains, shoot them, set them on fire, throw them up against a wall when they do not win. Yeah, real hero there Mike. Not the type of man I want my kids to emulate.
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esmLIVE1 year ago
Why?
This might sound funny especially since he looks like a grown man:
Peer Pressure.
The very same peer pressure that makes a kid who is going somewhere prove that he is still one of the boys by pulling a prank and costing his school millions in clean up efforts (and loosing his scholarship to a great college).
I won't say Vick is guilty, but it sure doesn't look good for him. When the Feds come after you, its because they been following you for years. If its less than that its because you did so much in the brief time they were following you that they have enough to prosecute.
So Vick is cool with his homies. He is rich and a famous sports star but he has to prove he is still the same old Vick.
Now there is a possibility that he will end up in jail, lose his earnings and REALLY be like one of the boys back home.
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pc251 year ago
this guy should be banned for life.....it's about time that ALL professional athletes begin to realize that the privilege of being a professional athlete is the responsibility of being a professional athlete.........
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mark-stevens1 year ago
They got Gotti by having Sammy the Bull verify the already known facts.
Plea bargaining is pleading guilty to get lesser time. It is not for sqealing on someone. Only people that don't have a prayer plea bargain. I think getting two years instead of five is not "getting off"
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live2achieve1 year ago
He may have a (small) chance of being innocent, but it doesn't look very good when all your buddies take the plea deal.
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somecommonsense1 year ago
There is no rule in the NFL which states if you are found guilty of animal cruelty that you get banned for life, i love it when people get all righteous and start making up their own laws, first of all , he is innocent until proven guity, if guilty of the crimes specified, I agree he is a bastard, I am a huge animal lover, but I'm also a realist, I mean, once a black person(uh oh Race!)in a pro sport is accused of something everyone starts talking about privilage and bans and what not, the guy was hired to play football, its a business, he probably will be suspended for the season and cut from the team perhaps, most definetly will lose all endorsements which is where athletes can make the most money, but he should not be banned for life thats ridiculous...should Jamal Lewis be banned for life for his role in that drug deal, which he went to jail for?
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year ago
''this guy should be banned for life.....it's about time that ALL professional athletes begin to realize that the privilege of being a professional athlete is the responsibility of being a professional athlete.........''
First off, what the heck does ' the privilege of being a professional athlete is the responsibility of being a professional athlete' mean?
As for the whole post, Are you saying athletes should be held to different standards of law than other people? Are you saying the owners of pro sports should only allow 'good guys' to play? For the sake of the kids who watch sports or something?
Being a professional athlete is not about priveledge, like being a president, its about having natural gifts and a desire to work like mad at honing and maximizing those gifts to compete with others.
If it was really about priveledge, like being a president, Jerry Jones Junior would be starting for the Cowpokes.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year ago
Vick should be punished if found guilty to the fullest extent of the law, and once his punishment is served[or paid], he should be allowed to go back and try to play football.
If he was a talented stock broker, should he be banned from Wallstreet for fighting dogs?
Hell, the guy couldn't hit the broadside of a barn anyway. A great running back, but teams don't go anywhere without an accurate QB, unless the rest of the team is mad talented.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year ago
that makes no sense.
dozens upon dozens of NFL players are busted for drunk driving, being caught with drugs, domestic violence, and worse things.
Just tell your kid, 'these are just a buncha very rich kids and men with the skills and gifts to play a game' and many are bad people, and many are good people, just like every other group of people'
you gonna boycott going to the grocery store because the manager beats his wife?
just talk to your kid. unless he is not healthy mentally, he'll be repulsed by the thought of people hurting little doggies for fun, even before he'd watch Vick throw those worm-killers and hate him for his inability to throw accurately consistently and make good reads and checkdowns.
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BronxBomber1 year ago
As an athlete he has a certain responsibility to "represent." He has the responsibility to kids who look up to ballplayers as sort of paragons of good virtue. He compromised that by indulging in this obscene venture. Anything bad that can possibly happen to Vick, he has it coming to him.
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Flashygrrl1 year ago
"all people in the US are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law"
Or a load of pictures so big you have to store them in their own file cabinet. hehehehehe
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saneman1 year ago
I will never understand why people idolize professional athletes. What are they lacking in their lives? I see many buy and wear jerseys of professional athletes. It is laughable and childish. Is it a surprise that Vick is nothing but a thug since his younger brother got kicked out of school for being a thug?
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pismo1 year ago
There is nothing wrong with idolizing anything whether it's a professional athlete or professional artist. It's just those that are being idolized need to realize the magnitude of influence they have upon people. Childish?....maybe but without bring out the child in all us adults every now and then we would become duds. Just like football. Most of us only got the chance to play in grade school or college but we can still get a little piece of it through our pro players. I feel for Vick in that he has probably blown a chance to become something 99.9% of us can only dream of. Just my 2 cents.
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saneman1 year ago
Here's my two cents. I truly feel sorry for people who need to live through the eyes of some professional athlete. Their lives must be pretty inconsequential or as you put it "duds". I also feel sorry for those people who are greatly influenced by professional athletes since they have below average IQ's.
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mark-stevens1 year ago
Not everyone idolize athletes or performers. The word idolize sounds very heathen!!
People live their lives through others go to a little league game or soccer. Parents want their kids to perform at a level they couldn't.
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retbg1 year ago
I agree 110% with saneman - this guy is just an uneducated thug/gangsta who can throw a football - if he was not black, this whole thing would be done by now. This is a slam dunk - he is guilty as sin but because he is black, we have to listen to all the black and white liberal pundits tell us how unfair we are to the poor guy. I'm sure the ACLU will weigh in too with their moronic opinion - How dumb do you have to be to do this kind of crap when you are already wealthy but I suppose "he don't know no better" because the white system failed him - hopefully, it won't fail him in court and he will go away for a long time and then disappear back into the ghetto from whence he came.
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actionJackson11 year ago
it is so funny to me, how so many people in this country trust a news commentators words, like as if they are getting the word of God, it is just there opinion, and no facts, hmm, like that really makes any difference,,,They're a lot of people in this coutry that wish they were a professional athelete, and will try to knock any of them down, just becuz of there own inableties or racist reasons,,, if dog fighting would have been found, going on at 1 of the "Babe's" homes, , it would have never been brought to the public.
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pismo1 year ago
Not sure if racism has anything to do with this one. I'm still not convinced Vick will serve time. Especially if this is a first offense. He will be punished because the government will have to hand out something to him. Be looking for Vick to be doing some kind of community service when this is all over. My guess is he will be playing next year. Too much money involved here.
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DanmLiberals1 year ago
Kind of sad that any time a black person get's prosecuted for something then we are all racist. The guy tortured and killed dogs on his property but it's racist to follow the law if we prosecute the black man. The cops should just let black people do whatever they want because if we dont then we are racist.
Stop using the stupid race card. Nothing ever becomes racist until a black man brings it up.
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lvrofwolves1 year ago
Race has nothing to do with this at all, I agree.
I hope you are wrong in thinking he may not serve time.'especially if this is his first offense'
true but this crime wasn't like a 1 time assult charge, or 1 time theft etc..this was a whole big operation with dozens of charges. If he is found guilty, I hope he serves time and is fined for EACH individual dog that he used and abused.
Glad with even the pleas of 2 co-defenents, they will still have to at least somewhat pay for their hideous crimes.
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xpansion1 year ago
actionJackson
Why is it when any prominent black figure get in trouble with the law you guys are so quick to pull the race card? Please explain what is racially motivated about this crime. Did 'whitey' plant the dog fighting equipment or pit bull bodies on Vick's property? Did 'the man' hold a gun to Vick's head and force him to participate in this venture? I bet you think OJ was innocent too.
The truth is, this has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the sadism involved in training innocent animals to fight to the death for 'fun' or profit. If it was Peyton Manning, most people would still be just as outraged, I know I would. As a pitbull owner I feel very strongly about this issue - not only is it cruel but it paints a false negative stereotype about the 'mean' pit bull. The only people who think this has to do with race are either very ignorant, or racists themselves.
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xpansion1 year ago
That being said, lets be not be too quick to convict Vick. Everyone is entitled to due process under the law. Most people thought the Duke Lacrosse players were guilty too, and we all know how that turned out. I bet you weren't outraged about their unjust treatment, were you actionJackson? At least not until they were exonerated at least.
If Vick is found guilty, I hope he gets the maximum sentence. This type of animal cruelty can not be tolerated.
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Pragmatic1One1 year ago
Were you outraged when Patrick Kerney was asleep upstairs while a young woman was raped in his house? Where was the public outcry and NOW? Oh, I'm sorry he was asleep so he could not possibly know someone was being raped downstairs or why should he be accountable for whom he associates.
The concept of "the right to quiet enjoyment" prohibits a landlord from entering a rental or lease property without adequate prior notice to the tenant. Vick would have to provide this implicit right to the tenants on his property, therefore potentially alloting time for the "free-loaders" to cover-up any criminal activity. The so-called "rape stand" is used in normal breeding of dogs, horses and other animals, so why would a registered dog breeder be alarmed if such a device was on his property? Could the wall have been erected to reduce the nuisance barking and dog breeding on the property?
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Pragmatic1One1 year ago
As for OJ, he was found innocent by a jury of his peers. Why do I not hear white people talking about Robert Blake being found innocent (had murder weapon in his possession) or Ron Specter? There was VIDEO of Rodney King, the Black teacher brutally beaten in New Orleans, witnesses and ballistic evidence in the Amadoo Diallo trial and countless other cases where an ALL-white jury or judge acquitted the perpetrators, just like they did back in the early 1900's.
Hell ballistics evidence showed the FBI brutally murdered, without provocation, lied under oath and planted evidence, when they killed Fred Hampton and other members of the Black Panther Party in chicago while claimimg they had been fired upon. The feminine, racist j. edgar hoover has the FBI headquarters named after him, but there is no outcry against this sacrilege.
If you compare the reaction to OJ, with that of Spector and Blake, you would clearly see an elevated level of aggression when speaking of OJ.
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Charlson1 year ago
Don't matter what color or nationality you are, if you like dog fighting or rooster (would not let me spell c*ck) fighting or bull fighting or any animal fighting, you are scum.
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greyhat20211 year ago
What a bunch of BS. If dog fighting goes on in anyones house it is brought to the public, to the extent of which it is brought to public is how much that person was in the public eye, he is a star football player, he put himself in the public eye for Christ sakes. And I'm sure the only reason he was arrested for this was because people where trying to knock him down (sarcasm). Racist my ***, any race caught dog fighting is going to be brought in you know that, if you believe race had anything to do with this your the racist. Lastly it doesn't matter if he was watching the dog fight or training them he is just as guilty as the guy carrying out the corpse.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year ago
''if dog fighting would have been found, going on at 1 of the "Babe's" homes, , it would have never been brought to the public''
dofferent world back then
and besides its about money
was the NBA gonna discipline Michael Jordan for saying he bet on Bulls games?
hahahahahhahahahahahahha
not even a token gesture
meanwhile the no longer economicly viable Pete Rose is convicted and banned for something Jordan admitted to.
Of course its different sports and baseball history and black Sox and blah blah blah, but not even an acknowledgement of wrong doing for the famous gambler MJ.
the NBA knew who buttered their bread
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Gatsby1 year ago
If he is guilty, and it appears he is, he should be banned from profesional sports for life. There is no defending his actions.
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badnootka1 year ago
I see that only some of his lucrative endorsements have been cancelled. I think the people of this fine country deserve to know qhich commercial enterprises are continuing to support VIck and provide him with endorsements. Those companies need to fully explain why they would continue with their affiliation with this piece of sh!t. ANd those companies should recieve a 100 % boycott of all their products until such time as they publicly announce that they have cut their ties with Vick. I am waiting for both the Falcons and the NFL to try to sweep this under the rug and let VIck continue with his career. THey have no morals just lick Vick and the almighty dollar is the only thing they worship or hold dear> Boycott the NFL if this happens.
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pismo1 year ago
I think they need to focus on cleaning up NBA and MLB. The NFL is shiny clean compared to the other two. I have already boycotted MLB. All these records being broken due to steroids. The sport has become a joke and if they do decide to clean it up then the records being held by steroid users will practically stand forever.
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schillinfl11 year ago
WAKE UP CALL
Sorry to wake you. Can get you a cup of coffee?
Now that you're up, I just wanted to say that if you think NFL players aren't on HGH and other steroids, I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Real cheap.
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