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SBXVII · 01-06-2009, 10:25 AM

I say no unless he's extremely cheap. I like to think positively and say that hopefully he has learned his lesson after paying his debt to society. I would also like to think part of his punishment would be to make public service announcements for PETA.

My main concern is not his whole animal issue. People around the world treat animals differently and that includes people within the U.S. I would not train an animal to fight and I would not kill the animal with my bare hands or torture a pet. However, I believe people humanizing pets way too much. I can remember taking a dog to the vet and it only cost between $50-$150 dollars. Now vets want to be treated like doctors and an office visit is $75-$100 dollars not including anything you have done to the animal. I understand new medicine and new techniques and new equipement enable the vet to do more things but when you spend under $400 for your dog or pick him up practically free from the pound and then your spending more on one visit to the vet then the whole cost of the dog is rediculous. I think we are in an age where we need to look into pet insurance to cover the cost of anything the animal needs medically do to high costs. I laugh every time someone tells me their vet bill was $2000 ..X-rays, endoscopy, surgery....

My issues with Vick are due to his non-marijuana use.

Remember he denied using it. lol. but how many times did he almost get caught in the airport? It just seems it was always around him but he was not a user. My other issue is it seemed he was the team. When he was not in the team played as a team as they are now. But when he was with the team he was a one man show. Coach's tried to make him a pocket passer and it never worked. He's better off passing rolling out or scrambling. Don't get me wrong he was a threat everytime he had the ball but I'm not sure if his issues are worth the head ache. Only if he knows he is second fiddle or third string. I can't for the life of me figure out what he would teach our QB's though. He was never confortable being a WCO pocket passer.

01-06-2009, 10:25 AM	#11
SBXVII Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 7,766	Re: Would you accept Michael Vick on the Redskins? I say no unless he's extremely cheap. I like to think positively and say that hopefully he has learned his lesson after paying his debt to society. I would also like to think part of his punishment would be to make public service announcements for PETA. My main concern is not his whole animal issue. People around the world treat animals differently and that includes people within the U.S. I would not train an animal to fight and I would not kill the animal with my bare hands or torture a pet. However, I believe people humanizing pets way too much. I can remember taking a dog to the vet and it only cost between $50-$150 dollars. Now vets want to be treated like doctors and an office visit is $75-$100 dollars not including anything you have done to the animal. I understand new medicine and new techniques and new equipement enable the vet to do more things but when you spend under $400 for your dog or pick him up practically free from the pound and then your spending more on one visit to the vet then the whole cost of the dog is rediculous. I think we are in an age where we need to look into pet insurance to cover the cost of anything the animal needs medically do to high costs. I laugh every time someone tells me their vet bill was $2000 ..X-rays, endoscopy, surgery.... My issues with Vick are due to his non-marijuana use. Remember he denied using it. lol. but how many times did he almost get caught in the airport? It just seems it was always around him but he was not a user. My other issue is it seemed he was the team. When he was not in the team played as a team as they are now. But when he was with the team he was a one man show. Coach's tried to make him a pocket passer and it never worked. He's better off passing rolling out or scrambling. Don't get me wrong he was a threat everytime he had the ball but I'm not sure if his issues are worth the head ache. Only if he knows he is second fiddle or third string. I can't for the life of me figure out what he would teach our QB's though. He was never confortable being a WCO pocket passer.