Should Michael Vick be allowed to play in the NFL again?

We know that Michael Vick has been released from prison and has been placed under house arrest at his home in Vir­ginia. The ques­tion now is what’s next for Michael Vick?

Before we look at his future lets step back and look at his past. Vick owned Bad Newz Ken­nels and was con­victed of financ­ing and run­ning dog­fight­ing rings. He finally admit­ted to vio­lently tor­tur­ing and some­times killing these animals.

If we ana­lyze his char­ac­ter there are def­i­nitely some ques­tions that need to be addressed. Why did he lie repeat­edly to God­dell? Don’t we wish we could have been behind those closed doors when Michael Vick and Atlanta Falcon’s owner Arthur Blank had those discussions?

Sad to say Michael Vick was not an hon­est or truth­ful indi­vid­ual and behaved like a thug on many occa­sions. Does any­one recall when after a poor per­for­mance at game at the Geor­gia Dome he poet­i­cally gave the crowd the bird?

The National Foot­ball League needs to under­stand and address the pub­lic image they are dis­play­ing towards our chil­dren. Does the NFL stand for the National Foot­ball Losers or the Nut­cases From Leav­en­worth? What’s next, the all star prison team star­ring Ray (I didn’t do it although I saw who did) Lewis, Larry (I’ll kill you and get away with it) Lit­tle or Plex­ico (I really should be on David Let­ter­man) Burress.

Some may sug­gest that tor­tur­ing ani­mals is a pre­cur­sor to more seri­ous crim­i­nal inten­tions such as ser­ial killers. Is this how we judge the moral fab­ric that deter­mines the char­ac­ter per­son­i­fied by Michael Vick?

On the other hand dog fight­ing has been part of a cul­ture that has existed in the extreme rural and urban areas of our coun­try as well as many oth­ers. Michael Vick was pun­ished and he did his time. We all make mis­takes because no one per­fect and its all part of the frailty that makes us human.

Allow us to put this in per­spec­tive as this is Amer­ica and we are not Reli­gious Extrem­ists, Nazis, or the Span­ish Inqui­si­tion. Atlanta­Ga­To­day rec­om­mends that Michael Vick deserves a sec­ond chance and should be re-instated to the NFL … as long as it’s not with the Atlanta Fal­cons!

Shopping in Atlanta

Lenox Square Mall and Phipps Plaza are at the cor­ner of Peachtree Rd and Lenox Rd in Buck­head. This is the Southeast’s pre­mier shop­ping des­ti­na­tion.

Lenox Square Mall by itself has over 250 stores and is anchored by Bloom­ing­dales, Neiman Mar­cus and Macy’s. Across the street you’ll find Phipps Plaza. Phipps has been named a “South­ern Best” by South­ern Liv­ing and has the high end spe­cialty stores such as Gior­gio Armani, Jimmy Choo and Gucci to name a few. Phipps Plaza is anchored by Saks Fifth Ave, Belk and Nordstrom.

Per­haps the coolest shop­ping des­ti­na­tion is Atlantic Sta­tion. Dubbed the city within a city you can find anchors such as the mas­sive IKEA store as well as Dil­lards and a huge Tar­get. Plenty of restau­rants abound this work, live and play com­mu­nity as well.

Michael Vick released from Federal Prison today

Michael Vick took his first steps towards free­dom and what hopes to be a new begin­ning for the ex-Atlanta Fal­con quar­ter­back. Once the most excit­ing player in the NFL, Michael Vick left Leav­en­worth Fed­eral Pen­i­ten­tiary in Kansas about 5:00am this morn­ing. He will begin to serve the rest of his sen­tence under house arrest at his Hamp­ton Vir­ginia home.

Michael plead guilty to financ­ing a dog­fight­ing ring and served 19 months of his 23 month sen­tence in prison. Upon return Michael expects to take a $10 an hour job as a con­struc­tion worker and looks for­ward to reunit­ing with his Family.

Humane Soci­ety Pres­i­dent Wayne Pacelle said Tues­day that he met with Michael at the Kansas Prison. He stated that Vick wants to help the Humane Soci­ety on a pro­gram to abol­ish dog­fight­ing among urban youths.

Atlanta Fal­cons owner Arthur Blank sug­gested that Michael was tak­ing pos­i­tive steps and mak­ing changes in his life and stated that Michael’s paid his debt to society.

Although Michael Vick has a long road ahead of him he appears eager to get his life back on track and hopes to return to the NFL someday.

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