I see nothing wrong with athletes making the money they do...they bring in the audience and the revenue, hell, give them the money.
BUT, what really pisses me off, is when someone like Mike Vick shows real talent for the game, goes to school, gets out, makes that kind of money, and, for some unknown reason, doesn't do a damn thing to better himself. Instead of distancing himself from the monsters and losers in his life, he seeks them out, and uses his money in one of the cruelest ways possible. As if the dog-fighting wasn't bad enough, the manner of killing dogs that he deemed useless because they weren't good fighters proves how low he and his cohorts really are: they found entertainment in killing them outside the ring, too.
The only good that may come from all this is that it will crack open just how wide-spread dog-fighting is in this country. It's everywhere, and if municipalities don't do something about it because "it's just a dog," then they at least need to wake up to the fact that people involved in it are capable of ANYthing. And this crime carries more baggage...do they really think that the people involved in this kind of activity aren't breaking other laws such as drug dealing, firearms violations, etc.?
Okay, that's MY rant! And to think, as a person with ties to Virginia Tech, I actually liked this guy way back when. Enough... I hope he gets the maximum punishment possible, and if it's just to use him as an example, so be it.
