Is Today's Philadelphia Daily News Michael Vick Headline Fair?
by furrer4heisman on Sep 22, 2010 11:09 AM EDT
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Yesterday, former Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick was named the starter for the Philadelphia Eagles. Above is today's Philadelphia Daily News, proclaiming Vick to be the Eagles' "Top Dog" (H/T: The Todd).
Honestly, I expected a lot worse from a newspaper that told Philly residents to "hide their dogs" when Vick was signed last season. You're slipping, Philadelphia Daily News.
My question to you guys is this: Is the above headline fair game? Should Vick still be subject to ridicule for what he did? Or should everyone just let it go and let him move on with his life after paying his debt to society?
More: SBN Philly has more on Vick being named the starter. SBN Atlanta offers its own opinion. Frank Beamer told the AP that Vick's story still has chapters to be written.
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As far as I’m concerned, he’s paid his debt to society. However, many don’t feel that way and still think he should be in prison or that he shouldn’t be allowed to play because of his past actions.
I think it was a little over the top, but every story about him from here until the end of time will have something about his dog fighting conviction in it. The only thing he can do is to ignore the headlines and focus on being a better father, man, and football player.
I’m sure when and if he has a couple of bad games, the press there will go back to telling people to hide their dogs.
only reason I can agree to that
is that people in similar situations don’t get as much time as he did. However, he did not make a mistake. A mistake is a car wreck, not planning, funding, and implementing a dog fighting farm.
I think the magazine is a cheap shot but I can laugh about it. Hell if I saw Vick, I would try to get a picture of him with my dog.
Uh...
Mistake-Car Wreck
planning, funding, and implementing a dog fighting farm.
A terrible crime?
Not an alcoholic, just an FSU grad.
by onebarrelrum on Sep 22, 2010 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Extremely tame
Seems more of just a play on words in an attempt to be funny than a shot at him.
Cheesy...
I’m with the author of this post. If you’re going to make a joke, need something better than that.
Lame.
by Leonard Thompson on Sep 22, 2010 11:43 AM EDT reply actions
Not unfair at all.
A play on words is nothing compared to what he did. Really don’t like Vick. If he is really sorry about it then, fine. Time to move on, he’s paid his debt, blah blah. But I think it was more of, “Crap, I lost a lot of money, can’t play football and I’m looking at serious time. I’m REALLY SORRY because I want my life back and don’t want to go to jail.” Not because, “Wow, I can’t believe what a horrible human being I am and I’m sorry for it.”
Don’t know. Probably little tougher on him than some since I’ve seen what scum do with dog fighting first hand, right in the heart of Tallahassee.
For Leonard Thompson, what about, “Vicks Killer Instinct Earns him Starting Job.” It could be worse, or better. However you look at it I guess.
Not an alcoholic, just an FSU grad.
What should the treatment of Braylon Edwards be? Should Donte Stallworth ever be allowed to play again? I’ve had friends killed by drunk drivers….
It just seems that sometimes the public outrage doesn’t always fit the crime. I love my pets like family and I detest what Vick did and I’m kind of ambivalent on how his career goes, but DWI and taking a life while driving drunk fits a little higher on my outrage meter – but that’s because of my personal experiences.
JMUHOKIE???
If your screen name is an accurate depiction of your college football loyalty, I imagine that you had to really load up on the bi-polar medication the weekend before last.
by Leonard Thompson on Sep 22, 2010 12:50 PM EDT reply actions
Yup. I did my undergrad at JMU and my graduate work at VT. Same amount of time spent at both schools although when I was at JMU, we went to the football games to watch the marching band because the football team sucked.
In those matchups, I typically root for VT, but after this years game I was having quite the multiple personality day.
JMUHOKIE is right, there will always be that background info that we have to painfully read as if it were news at the end of a news story, and in the headline. People will take cheapshots at him and go out of their way to let him know how much of an asshole they think he is. That’s not going to change. But fair or not, they will always do this because it sells papers and it’s a very accessible pun. I don’t know anybody that doesn’t know of Michael Vick from what he did with the dogfighting ring. However, even living close to Blacksburg I know plenty of people who couldn’t tell Michael Vick from the guy standing next to him on the street. So it’s accurate to say that Vick’s public persona is more recognizable from his criminality than his football fame, which is why the paper is stooping to this level like all other media outlets are, to exploit the common man/woman’s knowledge of Vick only as a criminal with the pun and to make money off of it. It’s not personal, or at least it wasn’t intended to be.
Also, onebarrelrum, you have inspired me…to post my Michael Vick article I wrote for my college paper the first week back on campus in the first semester after his arrest. Perhaps that, and the LONG 15-pageish article in SI that fall can change your opinion on Vick.
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