Michael Vick's NFL comeback

A disgraced quarterback's long road back after serving his prison sentence for organizing dogfights

Michael Vick is out of prison, said Steve Aschburner in Sports Illustrated, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to cheer for him when he starts his comeback as a quarterback in the National Football League. Vick would still be mixed up in his “repugnant dogfighting conspiracy” if he hadn’t been caught. “Until a majority of us see Michael Vick as a changed man,” his accomplishments on the field won’t matter.

Vick’s crime was “reprehensible,” said Joe Henderson in The Tampa Tribune, but there should still be a place for the former Atlanta Falcons star in the NFL. His crimes were no worse than felonies committed by other players still in uniform, and he has paid his debt to society. In fact, “I’m not sure any player in the history of the league has paid a greater price for his misdeed than Vick.”

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