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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former Hokie and a dog lover myself I was appalled, shocked, saddened and angered by the callous abuse that Michael Vick participated in.  He deserved to go to jail for it and he did.

That said, the man did his time and he maintained his ability to play.  So he is back playing.  I am not a fan of his to say the least.  I would never watch a game simply because he was playing in it.  But I am not going to blow off an entire team because he his on it.  He's an a-hole but he is also a talented football player.  I'd much rather him spend his time playing football than developing some other unsavory "hobby".[/quote]

He did not participate in ANYTHING....he was barely ever at that damn house in the first place. He got in trouble for LYING not DOG FIGHTING. he got scared and tried to cover his butt. Vick has never participated in any dog fighting. lets get the actual facts correct[/quote]

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/reminder-michael-vicks-dogs-were-shot-electrocuted-hanged-and-beaten-to-death-6702521
 remind Myers, and Jets fans with only a distant memory of the case, of the crimes for which Michael Vick served 21 months in prison.

In addition to plunking down $34,000 to buy the Smithfield, Virginia, property where dozens of dogs were chained to car axles buried in the ground while they fought, sometimes to the death, in front of betting spectators, Vick and his co-defendants admitted to killing at least six (but perhaps as many as eight) dogs who did not display sufficiently aggressive traits during the "testing" process.

Several of those dogs were shot; at least two were were hosed down, then electrocuted. Three dogs were hanged, according to a report by the USDA inspector general, "by placing a nylon cord over a 2 x 4 that was nailed to two trees;" three more dogs were drowned "by putting the dogs' heads in a 5 gallon bucket of water."

Vick, with his partner, Quanis Phillips, killed yet another dog "by slamming it to the ground several times before it died, breaking the dog's back or neck." When another of his dogs was disqualified after jumping out of the ring during a fight, Vick had his associate, Purnell Peace, shoot that dog in the head with a .22 caliber pistol.

When federal officers raided Vick's property in 2007, they rescued 53 pit bulls. They also found nine pit bull carcasses, took samples of two skeletal remains, collected spent shell casings, syringes, and "pieces of plywood flooring and dry wall covered with dark stains believed to be canine blood." (Tests later confirmed, yes, the stains were dog blood.)

Other evidence seized from the property included a "rape stand" -- a device to which a female dog was strapped, her head fully restrained, so she could be raped by other dogs without ripping their throats out. (You can read the federal indictment and the follow-up from the USDA on the next page.)

..."Forgettable baggage"? Vick, who now works with the Humane Society (a partnership proposed by a Vick handler before he was even done serving his prison sentence) would probably like Jets fans to think of his dogfighting conviction in those terms.

But it's probably less forgettable for the dogs who were rescued from from Vick's Bad Newz Kennels, the folks who did the rescuing, and the families who adopted the dogs that could be adopted after all that happened to them.

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