As a player, I found Michael Vick’s game to be all about Michael Vick. He has built a lucrative career as a sports celebrity while leading his team to zero super bowls and, I believe, only a single playoff victory. His career completion percentage is an anemic 53%. His style of play is flashy and fun to watch, but the results of his efforts do not seem to compare favorably with other quarterbacks.
As a person I have always thought Michael Vick was a typical self-obsessed super-jock who felt he was above criticism, above the fans, and now we see, above the law.
In all of his flashy and very public football career, his game has always been about Michael Vick. It will be interesting to see if the threat of jail will cause him to work with federal authorities to take down even more shady figures in the world of dog fighting. It is clear to me that personal responsibility, morality, or a sense of “doing the right thing” is not enough to get Michael Vick to cooperate with authorities. But perhaps the fear of hard time in prison might finally get Michael Vick to do something positive for someone besides himself.
We’ll see.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackCC: I can’t find anything to disagree with you on this one…darn it!
You just feel badly for someone with so much obvious ability that can not reign in their personal demons.
Yesterday, I saw on the local news a former Heisman Trophy winner…college trained Dentist…Hero of the AFL…LSU hero…signing autographs at a local boat dealership. I know that he is doing it to pay the bills and buy groceries One Billy Cannon by name…sad, sad, sad.
A long article, but very telling, and a warning to any kid that any of us might know with great talent: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n22_v219/ai_16905461
Sorry…spelled “rein” wrong…not “reign”, it is “rein”…fingers running ahead of my brain I guess.
Nice to see Billy Cannon making money the old fashioned way, instead of counterfeiting it like he was doing in the early 80s. As it happens, I was working at a Louisiana bank at the time and we got quite of few of Billy’s counterfeit $100 bills. They were quite good. The best I ever saw, and I saw a LOT of counterfeit bills while working in the vault. The best way to catch them was to do the fingernail test on the ink, which is to run your thumb or fingernail across the ink. Real money will (or at least used to) have a corderoy feel to it. Fake money will usually feel flat.
A Billy Cannon $100 bill is the only counterfeit bill I know of that got past me. I know because it was caught by the magnetic ink reader that we used as a backup. Once I got burned that way, I learned the feel of his bills too, and never missed another one. It is amazing how sensitive human fingers are to things. If you handle enough money, you eventually can just feel if it is a real bill or not.
CC: Yea, a darned shame…the whole deal was. I remember it well. My father’s cousin played on the 58 & 59 team with him…just such a darned shame.
Like I said…if any of us know an upcoming talented young person, this is a perfect lesson for them.
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