Vick's Bottle Tested Negative

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Comparing O.J. to Vick is not an opinion, it is ignorance. I come here to talk about football not to listen to someone who did nothing wrong get compared to O.J. Simpson (which wasn't the only ignorant comment about Vick in these threads).

Did you forget that OJ was found not guilty, even after he was basically convicted in the court of public opinion? How is that different from Vick in this situation?

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Did you forget that OJ was found not guilty, even after he was basically convicted in the court of public opinion? How is that different from Vick in this situation?

The difference is the crime. OJ sliced off two peoples heads.

[CanadianSkin]

See my whole arguement about Vick was that this latest installment just added the cherry to the top of the sundae of stupid things he has done. You are Micheal Freaking Vick!!! do you not think that being the number one overall pick, being always under the microscope and being known world wide as an eletricfying player may draw some attention to you...

He decided to pull the whole Ron Mexico thing, he flipped off the fans that pay their hard earned wages to see him play and added a nice F-off on top of it. Then he decides to try and keep a water bottle that has a comprtment in it. (Yes I know he is innocent now) but still these are no exactly things that a smart person would do.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Grim21Reaper

If you were actually as smart as you want everyone to think you are, you'd go back and read what I wrote. I didn't compare Michael Vick to OJ Simpson. I compared the legal innocence of the two men. And surely someone of your intellectual prowess will recognize that their legal innocence is exactly the same. Thus, a comparison is pretty valid.

Now, what I asked rhetorically and obliquely was whether or not legal innocence makes you certain of actual innocence in a situation where a criminal offense may have been committed. See, that's called a hypotehtical situation, and so it calls for conjecture on the part of someone contemplating it. If you understood that sort of subtlety, you'd see that there's actually an interesting philosophical question in there. A tree fell in the forrest without anyone there to witness it and now the question isn't whether or not there was a noise; it's who felled the tree...

For the record, just so you know, I graduated from an Ivy League university and was Phi Beta Kappa in my junior year. I then earned a PhD in chemistry. If you have educational/intellectual credentials that are superior to that, I'll be glad to acknowledge your superior intellect. Until then, please try to read the posts here a bit more carefully.

Now to set the record straight:

I don't hate Michael Vick; I don't know him; I have no reason to believe that he is a person who does evil things to his fellow man. I do think that many of his behaviors - while not ones that have caused him to become a convicted criminal - are less than intelligent ones given his stature in the community and in the sports world. So, because I think he behaves in ways that are not all that intelligent, I characterize him as a MORON.

My appologies for the tedious repetition to those Warpath readers who understood what I said in the first place...

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Comparing O.J. to Vick is not an opinion, it is ignorance. I come here to talk about football not to listen to someone who did nothing wrong get compared to O.J. Simpson (which wasn't the only ignorant comment about Vick in these threads).

Obviously in your mind this forum does not talk about football properly. The main question is why do you keep coming here if it bothers you so much? Go to some other site, I am sure you will not be missed. Basically you just come on this site to find someones opinion that you feel you can bash, and somehow you derive utility out of that. It's not even like you are correcting peoples views in a positive manner.

And you aren't a Mod either so....

[Pocket$ $traight]

[quote=hooskins;271936]Obviously in your mind this forum does not talk about football properly. The main question is why do you keep coming here if it bothers you so much? Go to some other site, I am sure you will not be missed. Basically you just come on this site to find someones opinion that you feel you can bash, and somehow you derive utility out of that. It's not even like you are correcting peoples views in a positive manner.

And you aren't a Mod either so....

Hooskins, how did you know that my goal was to be a mod on the Warpath?

Which picks up more chicks for you, the "No one likes you" T-shirt or your UVA 3 time NCAA field hockey and cross country champion T-s? Btw soccer players are still biaaaaatches except for that billy goat who played for France.

[tdSKINS1]

Man he is a Hokie and until he is proven guilty hes innocent and definetly enjoy mike do his thing on the field

[htownskinfan]

this was on profootballtalk.com,sounds fishy to them also,and click on the link at the end to the snl skit,pretty frickin funny,wait,that link wont work from here,go to their site to click on link or try this link
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SOMETHING SMELLS ABOUT VICK "EXONERATION"

We were shocked, but not surprised, by Chris Mortensen's report that Michael Vick will be exonerated for the incident involving a water bottle with a secret compartment and a pungent smell and a small brown particle that most likely wasn't a booger.

Vick, who did not publicly proclaim his innocence, likely (in our opinion) purchased a high-priced lawyer who pressured the powers-that-be in Miami into dropping the matter. The tactics likely (in our opinion) included a passionate plea regarding the difficulty of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the bottle fished out of a recycling been by a TSA worker was the same bottle Vick had tossed in there, and maybe a thinly-veiled threat or two that the lawyer would start suing people into the Stone Age if the matter didn't go away quickly.

And that's where the report isn't completely clear. Was the contention that the bottle with a secret compartment didn't belong to Vick, or was it that the bottle with the secret compartment was Vick's, but that it didn't have any marijuana in it?

If it's the latter, it hardly means that Vick is clean. Why would he even own a water bottle with a secret compartment if he wasn't going to stick stuff in it that he shouldn't have in the first place?

And if it was Vick's bottle, look for Vick to still be in hot water with the Falcons.

Meanwhile, check out this hilarious segment from Saturday Night Live regarding the Vick ordeal. It's not quite "D--k In A Box" material, but it's funny nonetheless.

[Hog1]

Of course he is completely innocent. MV was heard to tell the gate security guard "SEE!!!! the bloody glove is to small to fit me".
Who among us can honestly say they don't have a half case of two sided concealed compartment water bottles for completely upstanding reasons laying around the house?
Get a grip! looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a?????????????

[Defensewins]

There is a lot of hate out there for Vick.

Vick is a rich, dumb jock, not a PHD. What the hell do you guys expect? Look at his brother, do you think they came from a middle class, white bread suburb like most us did? Do think they had great role model or a great education? Not likely.
Vick is not a terrible person. He has done some stupid things, but he has only hurt himself. No need to hate.


To mention Vick and OJ in the same sentence should only be about great runners with great moves.

[djnemo65]

I once got blazed with this dude in Blacksburg who looked like Mike Vick. Said his name was Ron Mexico though. Anyway, this guy had that skunk. It was a good weekend, from what I can remember.

[Gmanc711]

I can see where this is headed....Can't we all just get along ?

[MTK]

Back to Vick, I thought initially they said this was going to take several weeks to resolve because of the lab tests... then all of a sudden it's over??

Colin Cowherd on ESPN radio today said something interesting. Back when the whole Ron Mexico fiasco was going on ESPN told to not talk about it on the air. He said it seems that the NFL goes out of their way to cover things up for this guy. He is afterall worth a ton of $$ to them.