Michael Vick

I read this story off of yahoo sports yesterday about Michael Vick. I have to say, it was a little ridiculous. Apparently, Michael Vick isn't happy on his team. He wants to be a starting QB in the league again, and isn't happy with just being a "Wildcat guy." He says that he was born to be a QB in the league. Well, this is a valuable lesson that Mr. Vick, and many people in this world, need to learn. It's a simple lesson of cause and effect.

Here's my take on this. Michael Vick, quit whining. You are the luckiest guy in the world that anybody has even allowed you anywhere near a football field again. Weren't you the one who, at the start of the year, was talking about how fortunate you knew you were and how you were just going to do what you could to make the best out of the situation? What happened to that? You signed with a team that you know has a solid, every year started in Donovan McNabb. And you have a coach that has always stood with his QB no matter how many times people called for his head. What did you expect to happen? Did you expect them to take you in and groom you up to be the starter again? The bottom line is this, you spent the previous 2 years in prison and hadn't played football.

Here is the cause and effect lesson. If you knew that what you were meant to do in this world was play the position of quarterback, why did you go out and participate in illegal, and disgusting acts that put your career in jeopardy to begin with? A person who is meant to play quarterback, and knows how lucky they are to be doing it, does not put him/herself into that kind of a situation. You did, by funding and running a dog fighting ring. Nobody should ever forget the disgusting act that you participated in. You bet on animals trying to kill each other, and you did it for fun. That caused your suspension from league. That caused your criminal trial, and that caused you to spend 2 years in jail. Now what is the effect? 2 years off of the field takes you out of game shape. Your body doesn't have the same routine that you went through during your offseason work outs and mini-camps. As a result of those, you're not going to get picked up and put into a starting situation. For many reasons.

In addition to all the physical aspects that are keeping people from looking at you, imagine the image issues for the team that signs you. Now, not only do we have this quarterback who hasn't played in 2 years, but they have a convicted felon who fought dogs. That is going to be a hit on that team's image no matter what you do for them. You are forever connected with that crime, Michael Vick, and no amount of playing, or community work, will erase that.

Now you're coming out and complaining about being stuck in the Wildcat role? It seems that the whole lesson of this has been lost on you, Michael Vick. If you truly realized how fortunate you are to even be allowed near a professional team again, if you completely understood that every cause has an effect that you have to deal with, if you had even a little bit of remorse about what you did to innocent creatures, then you wouldn't open your yap and complain about your playing time. You would be out thanking the Eagles and the NFL for the limited role that you have been given. Now be grateful for the opportunity that you've been given, and please shut up.