08-21-2007, 08:01 AM | #136 |
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I feel good. Now I know there really IS a DOG! Praise!
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08-27-2007, 10:19 AM | #137 |
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I was tryin to see if there was any news on the plea deal with him and found his Wiki info had some past allegations of dog fighting.
Personal 2001-2007: Minor controversies, troubles, and incidents Between his selection by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 NFL Draft and early 2007, Vick was involved in number of smaller incidents or events: * In 2007, Michael Boddie, his father, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that around 2001, Michael Vick was staging dogfights in the garage of the family's home in Newport News and kept fighting dogs in the family's backyard, including injured ones which the father nursed back to health. Boddie said his son had been urged to not engage in the activity, but continued. He stated "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it." |
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09-26-2007, 02:15 PM | #140 |
why so serious
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Poor, poor V, now it's Weed
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09-27-2007, 02:23 PM | #141 |
all hollowed out
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Actually the most likeable thing about him is that he smokes weed
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09-27-2007, 10:20 PM | #142 |
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I heard a rumor last night, that an ongoing investigation will result in the indictments of several big names, in several different sports, over dog fighting.
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09-27-2007, 11:44 PM | #143 |
changed his status to single
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really? hmmm. i'll bet that's why rex grossman got benched.
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09-28-2007, 12:09 AM | #144 |
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If a man named "Rex" goes for dog fighting I will lose faith in humanity.
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09-28-2007, 09:00 AM | #145 |
why so serious
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here rex, here rex - come here boy
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09-28-2007, 01:32 PM | #146 |
why so serious
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Indiana bank suing Vick over car loans
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09-28-2007, 02:24 PM | #147 |
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That's right, he's white isn't he?
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09-29-2007, 04:02 PM | #148 |
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Sports stars, whether we like it or not, are role models for our kids. People who are cruel to animals are not the people I want my kids imitating.
Sports players get too much leeway, just because they play sports. It's not anymore ok for them to use drugs, or cheat, or break the law in any other way than it is for anyone else to. I think they should be held to the same standards that everyone else in the world is held to. I'm glad he lost his commercial contracts. When it starts affecting their money, people take notice.
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09-29-2007, 04:51 PM | #149 |
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I fully agree with you, Lady Sidhe.
But, I would also like to have parents help their kids put "stars" of any kind, in perspective. They are not heroes. They are athletes or actors or musicians or whatever, but not heroes, and not necessarily worth emulating. |
09-29-2007, 06:28 PM | #150 |
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Precisely. A "football hero" is just some guy who is good at something that, if we trained a gorilla or orangutan to do no human could touch them"... I am NOT impressed.
Humans are so arrogant, our engineers are so far behind what ants, spiders and termites, among many others can do it is sad. If we took copper out of the equation we would be back to the stone ages tomorrow. Our arrogance is our largest weakness and will be the end of us if we never learn to overcome it. Hero, there have been many and none that we celebrate on a regular basis and the ones that we do, we don't celebrate what makes them heroes. Again, our arrogance, we don't want to hear about how they overcame but how they conquored.... so pathetic. |
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