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I was in a meeting when someone mentioned this. I said "I hope he doesn't get another pro football job, since he's obviously not the kind of person kids should be looking up to." Someone in the meeting then said "Michael Vick got one."
It's a tough comparison to me. On the one hand he punched his fiance/girlfriend/wife. On the other he allowed the brutal treatment and mauling of several animals... I don't know.
I dunno...both were acts of violence by a well conditioned athlete against an unprotected living being.
That was pretty brutal. I agree a woman shouldn't hit a man but I don't see where she punched him. I see a half hearted smack before they entered the elevator. He punched her first, she went after him and that is when he knocked her out cold. A punch like that could kill a person. What really surprised me more than anything was the total lack of regard after she was knocked out. He picks her up and drops her twice inside the elevator, then drags her out face down, drops her, kicks her leg while picking up her shoe, and then picks her up again to drop her. It was like she was a bag of garbage. Why in the hell she married him after that is beyond me. I'd hate to think of what he would do to her now.
He needs to be banned from humanity. Ray Rice is sub-human, the poster boy for supreme ignorance. He needs to be banned from the NFL, and all of sports, before disappearing never to be seen or heard from again.
Not excusing any bad/illegal/immoral behavior by any athlete, but 3 big differences I see with Vick and Rice are:
1) Rice was caught on video. Vick IIRC was all verbal admissions.
2) Vick was actually convicted and went to jail, paid fines and did community service as far as we know has kept his nose clean. So far Rice was given court ordered counseling and quickly married his victim seemingly as a legal maneuver.
3) Time and progress. Vick's stuff occurred coming up on a decade ago. The NFL mindset was a bit different then. Had it happened today he'd have no doubt been banned.
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Why in the hell she married him after that is beyond me
$$, fear, perks of being a baller wife, $$$$, father of her child, $$$$$, unlikely to earn that kind of $$$$$$$ herself, fear, did I say $$$$$$ already? Rice was pulling in c. $7M per year until today. Even after taxes and agents and managers take their cut that's not a bad sum to live on.
This punk is one of the reasons I stopped watching football... too many "thug life" punks playing the game, making millions of dollars throwing a ball around, and talking like they have a 4th grade education. Throw in the gangsta mentality on many of the players, ridiculous names (ie Ocho Cinco), and showboating, and I called it quits. The sport has become the PTL, aka Professional Thug League. Too many bozos with too little brain cells making too much money, just to become ingrateful, loud-mouthed, egotistical, women-beating, murdering buttheads.
Posters have been comparing Michael Vick to Ray Rice but remember Vick paid a price, he went to jail for what he did and his talent brought him back to play. He did his time now back to business. We can choose to forgive him or not but his name will always be stained.
I'm glad the NFL suspended Rice. So many kids look up to these clowns and their show boat antics on and off the field that it is wrong when one of them commits a crime and doesn't get punished.
Look at AAron Hernadez he is up for murder. It is pretty sad when these guys have the talent and ability to earn millions that could do so much for their families and they can't stop being "The THUG" Sad.
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Rice is a repulsive figure
He needs to be banned from the NFL, and all of sports, before disappearing never to be seen or heard from again.
