….Goodell said he would have a decision made BY week six as far as his standing. He could very well be allowed to play opening week if Goodell decides.

but I don’t agree with this decision. He’s done his time. Not sure if this is what is going on, but this smells like a deliberate effort to deter teams from signing him.

Go ahead, start the uproar, but here’s my opinion

I love watching MV play football. I love the idea of seeing him have a team by the end of this week. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very glad he is no longer a Falcon, we are much better without him, but I truly believe he will have a lot less drama surrounding him then ol’ Favre as he makes his return to this league, and I do believe he is going to electrify the highlight reels in the first game he gets an opportunity to have the ball in his hands.

That being said, what he did was incredibly wrong, his actions can never be forgotten or overlooked, but the man has served his debt to society, and this is America. It is the one country in the world where you have the freedom to recreate your name after you make a shit load of mistakes like this guy has. I do doubt he has reformed very much, but I’m sure he’ll be thinking twice before he does anything stupid again… at least for a while anyways.

So, congrats to Michael Vick. Please just stay out of the NFC South, and I do look forward to seeing if he can jump back on the NFL bicycle and ride.

Saying that I think that now, with his prison sentence over, it’s time to let the guy back into the league and let him play, period. I think you can impose conditions and still let him suit up for Week 1, if the team that signs him thinks he’s ready.

On the way home from work yesterday, it was all over the radio with tons of fans calling in talking about how the Jags community would embrace him and welcome him here. I think it would be a good fit and if it happens I’ll probably buy season tickets just so I can go watch him play.

whoever he ends up with. I feel for them. Unless the guy has totally changed who he is. he isnt going to last long. As far as the rest goes, yeah he served his time and yeah he deserves another shot. I personally wont believe he has changed until he proves it. Just hearing that when he went to the meeting with RG that he showed up with a “large” entourage of people is discouraging to me. Probably the same people he hung with before all of this happened. I wish him and his new team luck though.

…we should start a pool as to where he will land. It wouldn’t surprise me if any of the following teams took a shot on him:

Rams: Bulger has barely survived the last couple of seasons & they need to get fans excited

49ers: Singletary seems to me the type of guy that would want to serve as a mentor and give him a chance

Jags: They have no depth, it’s a smaller market & Vick wouldn’t have to move very far. I don’t know that Maurice Jones Drew is ready to shoulder the load now that Fred Taylor is gone.

Patriots: I think Bellicheck is still pissed that the Dolphins made them look like idiots when they first busted out the Wildcat and wouldn’t put it past him to sign Vick for a year just shove his version of the Wildcat in the Dolphins face. He seems really egotistical to me that way.

Raiders: Al Davis LOVES speed and let’s face it, he has gone totally insane.

Bills: Ralph Wilson might be starting to realize that he is older than dirt and might want to do whatever he can to improve the team this year (hence the TO signing).

ya’ll might think i’m crazy but the Texans. schaub has been anything but reliable and they’ve traded away Sage. andre j has proven that he can put up numbers no matter who is throwing the ball to him, and don’t forget owen daniels we all know how much vick likes to throw to TEs, add in slaton i think that would be an exciting team to watch.

I know he is free from the Feds. But he doesn’t seem to be free from the haters and the ill-informed individuals calling themselves human beings/fans. During this whole Vick ordeal, there have been more bashing of this player than any other player. Vick received more media coverage then Madoff! Madoff stole billions! BILLIONS! Destroyed lives and livelihoods! The federal prosecutor stated that he recommended a sentence of 6-9 mths MAX. But the judge choose 2 yrs. George W. Bush hated dog fighting so much that he decided NOT to make dogfighting, in and of itself, a federal crime a year before the Vick issue. That’s why the Feds pushed to change him with committing a criminal act across state lines. That was the only way they could slap Vick with a federal crime. Google everything I’ve written. It is true.

With that said, Vick should have been FULLY reinstated. Goodell has shown that he doesn’t have the New Sheriff In Town backbone he was once believed to have. Just as the person above said: Goodell is trying to cover his own behind. He’s trying to appease people/fans who don’t know anything about football and who are PERFECT in every way themselves. PERFECT people would never be able to understand nor forgive him. So I ask this question: Was what Vick did worse than cheating on your spouse and destroying your family? Neglecting/abusing your children? Clergy raping/taking advantage of kids? Or maybe killing or causing injury to a human? Should I go on?

I’m, in NO WAY, justifying his actions. If I was the #1 pick of the NFL (I say again the THE NFL) and received a $130 mil contract, I would not be fighting dogs! It’s just that I’m from down South (born and raised in Atlanta, GA) and dogfighting runs wild down here. I know individuals who many of you would call upstanding, role models who GAMBLE on dog fights. “Professional” people! The initial report that came out when this whole thing blew up stated that there were prominent business people who attended the dogfights that Vick alledgedly actively participated in (even though for 9 mths out of the year, football took all of his time). Who were these prominent people and why aren’t they being protested by PETA? Why is Vick the only person being crucified? Not Taylor who actually killed more dogs than Vick and got less time because he made a deal. Taylor ran the dog operation, not Vick. Vick was scoring TDs when most of these dogs were being killed! Come on PERFECT people! Give us non-PERFECT people a break over here. We are doing the best that we can! Honestly!

Many may not have known this, but there were a number of times that dog fighting was talked about OPENLY in the Falcons locker room (so the higher-ups KNEW about it). If you are a halfway decent businessman, than you know what is going on in your multi-billion dollar investment. I’m a former athlete myself so over the years, I’ve been able to meet people who are former players and those close to current players. One of our current D lineman had a run in with the law concerning dog fighting.

Leave Vick alone and let him get a job in his field, which pays pretty good and has nothing to do with dogfighting! And for the PERFECT people who have PERFECT lives pull the rap sheet for some of the politicans in OUR House of Representatives and tell me what you think! I’m all ears. As a matter of fact, why don’t all of the PERFECT, NON-MISTAKE MAKING people create their own country and that way they don’t have to deal with us NON-PERFECT people who seems to corrupt their PERFECT world! I’m sorry for not being PERFECT like some of the people who have commented negatively about Vick over the past couple of years. I truly am!!!

MIKE VICK-SUPER BOWL MVP!!!

BUT SORRY VICK, YOU’LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OUR BIRDS WIN ONE FIRST! YES I SAID OUR BIRDS! VICK YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A DIRTY BIRD! YOU GAVE US HOPE AND YOU BEAT FAVRE IN LAMBEAU!