Almost a year ago, Lovefraud wrote about Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who was convicted of running a dog fighting ring, released from jail and hired by the Philadelphia Eagles.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) objected to Vick’s reinstatement in the NFL. They wrote to Roger Goodell, league commissioner, stating that the quarterback fit the profile for antisocial personality disorder.
Last year’s Lovefraud article asked the question, Can Michael Vick change his behavior?
The answer, unsurprisingly, may be no.
Unlike most sociopaths, Michael Vick is subject to a very public probation. Everyone knows he did time. Everyone knows that for him to keep his job, Michael Vick had to do more than stay out of trouble. He had to become a role model.
30th birthday party
On June 24, 2010, a 30th birthday party for Michael Vick was held at a nightclub in Virginia Beach. This wasn’t a quiet celebration. The event was promoted by a company called Star Quality Entertainment. Anyone who bought a $50 ticket could attend.
Shortly after 2 a.m. on June 25, a shot was fired outside of the nightclub. Quanis Phillips, Vick’s co-defendant in the dog fighting scandal, was shot in the leg.
Michael Vick initially told police and the NFL that he had left long before the incident. Then the club’s surveillance video showed that Vick and his entourage left only about three minutes before the gunfire, and they went in the direction that the shots emanated from.
No one is saying that Michael Vick fired the shots, or that he was at all involved. But it certainly seems that in telling his version of the events, Michael Vick lied.
Redemption?
So is the big redemption experiment a failure? Michael Vick was paid $1 million by the Eagles last year. He barely played. Over the course of the season, he completed 6 of 13 passes for 86 yards and one touchdown. He ran for 95 yards and two scores. Most quarterbacks do more than that in one game.
If Vick stays on the team, he’s scheduled to earn $5.2 million this year. But rumors are flying that he’ll be cut. At least one Philadelphia sports commentator said that if Michael Vick lied about anything regarding this incident, he hasn’t met the criteria of being a “role model” and should be let go.
So even with a $5.2 million job hanging in the balance, Michael Vick couldn’t walk the straight and narrow path. Why are we not surprised?
For more on this case, read:
Citing new evidence, Virginia Beach police take a new look at Vick after shooting, on philly.com.
Phil Sheridan: Eagles must cut Vick if he lied, on philly.com.
Michael Vick’s ex-pal shot at Eagles’ QB’s birthday party, on nypost.com.
AP Source: Eagles may cut Michael Vick on York Daily Record.com.
Oxy, I was on a blog a few years back with the Michael Vick case was alive and well … All the sports freaks were ranting and raving about giving this creep a break (that he did his time) and all the animal lovers were saying that the courts were to light on him, that they should have fried the rotten bast***! It’s incredible that this is another OJ in the making …. already on the assembly line. I blame the NFL for keeping this bad behavior alive and well so they can make $$$$. They should have been thrown in jail along with Vick … for insisting young men knock heads with others as sport.
Sidebar Note regarding sociopathic athletes:
Elin Woods is reportedly getting as much as $750 million in her divorce settlement from Tiger…..the largest divorce settlement in sports history.
The caveat is that Elin cannot speak publically about Tiger’s infidelities.
That’s more justice than a lot of us get, at least in terms of $$.
I hear the men at the fitness center where I work out saying that she doesn’t deserve all of that money, because she did not “earn” it….Tiger did.
Comments like that infuriate me, because Elin could have contracted HIV or AIDS from this sociopathic cheater, unbeknownst to her, of course.
Elin was the one at home taking care of the children, while Tiger was out doing whatever he pleased.
So, yes.
In my opinion, she deserves every penny.
But, I’m looking at the situation from a different context than these men who still see Tiger as “a hell of a golfer”, and are willing to overlook his personal indiscretions.
Speaking of giving these athletes a break, Tiger is not only getting a break….some people (mostly men) are willing to completely look the other way when it comes to his personal life…as long as he keeps WINNING on the golf course, that is.
Rosa, believe me when I write this … women from all over the world are not only watching Tiger carefully, they are watching the user men/women and advertisers who support this psycho! Nike who? LOL.
Tiger is the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to anti-social personalities coming out of the closet for all to see they live among us. The entire world got to watch a Narcissist (at least) at his saddest hour. The moronic sports nuts may support him, but their wives do the shopping. Need I say more?
He’s just another cheating creep, no matter how well he does or DID put the little white ball in the hole in the sod. Personally I hope his wife gets ALL his money, she has children with him, so is TIED to the creep for life one way or another.
SHE EARNED every $$$ of whatever she gets in my opinion. So he gets to pay for his playing around. It still won’t make up for what he did.
I agree with Wini and Rosa.
And don’t you love the CAVEAT?
As part of the settlement, Elin is NOT ALLOWED to speak publically about Tiger’s affairs…..ever!!
In true sociopathic form, Tiger has taken away her voice to speak.
After all, abusers never want their victims to tell, right?
That’s the most revealing part (the secrecy) about Tiger’s personality, as far as I am concerned.
At the end of the day, Elin is nothing more than an object to him….an object that needs to be SILENCED.
Now THAT’s PAR!! (pun intended) 🙂
Honestly, here is another media red herring, a classic sociopath without empathy (at least toward dogs) and at the very least a criminal who cannot learn from past mistakes. I am more interest in the sociopath whose uses success to mask his underlying disorder, such as Lance Armstrong. Sorry to go off topic…
Regarding dogs, while many heinous psychopaths were known animal lovers, Adolf Hitler comes to mind, what about individuals who specifically dislike dogs?
I ask this because not only did my ex-sociopath Jamie dislike dogs, other individuals I know with some sociopathic traits also seem to dislike dogs.
Vick is typical in the Macho groups of psychopaths though, like those TOUGH “man killer” dogs. I don’t know what my P son did with it or what happened to it but first thing he did when he got out of prison the first time is get a PIT BULL PUP and named it “prescious”—he thought it was funny to say “Give the nice man back his leg, Prescious” BARF!
Anyone who wants a dangerous dog, or dangerous breed is sick—or who likes to see them fight. I can ALMOST see rooster fighting as thats what chickens do, but for dogs, or other mammals it is I think unnecessarily cruel. I don’t even approve of bull fighting though at least there is some danger to the man, but the bull doesn’t have a chance, but with the adrenaline flowing I don’t think the bull suffers much, but still, what’s the sport in dog fighting? Let Vick get in there and fight to the death with some other psychopath, I’d pay to see that fight!
Oxy, Pit Bulls, like any breed of dog are lovable with a loving person. It’s the evil within the breeder, who trains their dog to be vicious. That’s why I love the dog whisperer’s show on TV. He tells people that need his help training their pets, that’s he’s not training the dog, he’s training the owner (LOL). Most people don’t pick that up, even though he’s announces it on many of his shows.
My son has two pit bulls, they are lovable goobers. At the same time I agree with Ox, a lot of low life trailor trash get pit’s to get attention and train them to be aggresive and mean. Seem’s almost daily you here of small children being mamed or killed by them. And as sweet as his pit’s are and as good as they are with my grandaughter I wish he didnt have them..but like my son says, my weiners are mean little attack dogs, and when I have small children around I put the weiners in the back room..but most dogs should not be left alone with small children imho – I just woke up from a VIVID dream of my X – I took him back and was happy as a pig in a mud puddle..oh my.!
Oh my….is right hens!