Vick's legal troubles prompted Nike on Thursday to suspend the release of its latest product line named after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback. Nike has told retailers it will not release a fifth signature shoe, the Air Zoom Vick V, this summer. Nike spokesman Dean Stoyer said the four shoe products and three shirts that currently bear Vick's name will remain in stores.
Vick will be arraigned next week in a Richmond, Va., federal courtroom on charges of sponsoring a gruesome dogfighting operation.
Look, I'm all for due process but from what I've seen, Vick more or less ran this operation whether present or remotely.
Seriously? Dog fighting? I can't think of a more ghastly, horrifying hobby. Anybody who was involved in this should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I mean, how do you explain to your 8 year old why he can't wear his #7 Falcons jersey anymore?
I think this whole dog fighting thing stems from the same cultural depravity and moral vacuousness from which gangsta-rap, "Don't Snitch", pimps-and-hos, drugs, cop-killing, and gang-warfare comes. Some black culture(especially some in the NFL and NBA) glamorizes all this stuff and most of it is thinly-veiled crime. That particular slice of culture respects violence, brutality, and the taking of life....human or dog. Hopefully some people will wake up to the reality that the thug life style isn't all that glamorous and profitable. Vick had the world in front of him and it looks like he blew it.
I borrowed this picture from a blog called So What Happens Now. The guy's handle is "pfah" when he leaves comments on some of the websites we both frequent.
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