6:27 pm - 10/07/2012
Michael Vick has a new dog. Or very bad snacks.
Long before Sunday's first kick-off, the Internet lit up with amateur online sleuths dissecting a photo that Eagles quarterback Michael Vick tweeted Thursday. In it, Vick (well, the back of what looks like Vick's head) and his daughter share a homework night around the dinner table, she with worksheets, daddy with an iPad watching game film.
But a sharp-eyed radio host in Philadelphia noticed that on the table was an open box of Milk-Bone dog biscuits.
Vick, of course, became among the most widely hated athletes in history with his arrest for running and participating in a barbaric dog-fighting ring in 2007. Vick served 21 months in prison before returning to the NFL in 2010 and being named Comeback Player of the Year.
He has since spent significant amounts of his own time and money advocating for anti-cruelty and anti-dog fighting campaigns, including lobbying for a federal law that would make just watching a fight a crime and bringing a child to one a felony.
Still, Vick remains a hated symbol to many and still draws venomous reaction whenever he appears in the public eye.
Minutes after the Milk-Bone tweet appeared, it was removed and replaced with a Milk-Bone-less picture, though Vick's daughter's notebook was still visible with what appear to be glued-on pictures of dogs on the cover. Adding to the mystery is Vick's iPad, which appears blurred, as if someone didn't want a secret to get out. Whoops.
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Michael Vick Has a Dog?
Michael Vick has a new dog. Or very bad snacks.
Long before Sunday's first kick-off, the Internet lit up with amateur online sleuths dissecting a photo that Eagles quarterback Michael Vick tweeted Thursday. In it, Vick (well, the back of what looks like Vick's head) and his daughter share a homework night around the dinner table, she with worksheets, daddy with an iPad watching game film.
But a sharp-eyed radio host in Philadelphia noticed that on the table was an open box of Milk-Bone dog biscuits.
Vick, of course, became among the most widely hated athletes in history with his arrest for running and participating in a barbaric dog-fighting ring in 2007. Vick served 21 months in prison before returning to the NFL in 2010 and being named Comeback Player of the Year.
He has since spent significant amounts of his own time and money advocating for anti-cruelty and anti-dog fighting campaigns, including lobbying for a federal law that would make just watching a fight a crime and bringing a child to one a felony.
Still, Vick remains a hated symbol to many and still draws venomous reaction whenever he appears in the public eye.
Minutes after the Milk-Bone tweet appeared, it was removed and replaced with a Milk-Bone-less picture, though Vick's daughter's notebook was still visible with what appear to be glued-on pictures of dogs on the cover. Adding to the mystery is Vick's iPad, which appears blurred, as if someone didn't want a secret to get out. Whoops.
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Edited at 2012-10-07 11:45 pm (UTC)
random, but your comment made me think of that.
fuckin' toby
[we checked for worms and no he does not have them]
I'm so evil
I'm sure you meant PETA but still, so good.
After Vick served 19 months in federal prison ... he was banned from owning dogs for 3 years. That ban is about to expire, and Vick thinks having a dog could be "therapeutic" ... for his children. He told Piers, "I can't take that dream away from them. That's selfish on my behalf."
Edited at 2012-10-07 11:46 pm (UTC)
I hope this works out.
People say he's only sorry he got caught but at least he got caught and stopped? Like I'd rather have him be caught and stopped instead of him still being out there doing it
But I always hope for the ones that won't come back because they've gotten their lives right. I don't care how many times a person had been in jail, I want them to get their lives right and not come back again. If Mike Tyson, after years of stupidity could finally see the light and get his act together, then almost anyone can.
But I also think that he should never be able to own a pet again. Just like people who kill their kids or abuse kids - sterilisation. We can't take chances with another life, pet or child, that you've successful rehabilitated yourself.
the guy's an asshole but i think he's learned his lesson.
He"ll always be an asshole but he did his time.
However, knowing that he electrocuted dogs and strangled animals to death with his own hands...If you don't feel something bad doing that, I don't know that you can just learn to feel empathy later.
Basically I agree. I hope he learned his lesson, and I feel he served his time, but I really don't think he needs to own a dog.