Steelers Sign Michael Vick

The moral side of this debate aside, I still can't think of why this is a good signing, given Vick's declining skill set. Wouldn't it have made more sense to bring in an Arena League or CFL guy? Hell, why not have an open tryout for QB3 and roll with LOLandry? I think I'd almost rather have Jamarcus Russel than Vick.

 

Caleb Hanie or we prolly could have gotten "Clipboard Jesus" (Charlie Whitehurst) for little or nuthing.


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And then re-retire, and then comback, and then re-re-retire, and then comeback, and then re-re-re-retire, and then comeback just in time for the playoffs.

Still a much much better option ... and better QB.

 

Stay out of it.........stay out of it..............
Nope! As you can tell by my avatar, I'm a dog lover. I volunteered for a local Lab rescue group for a couple of years. I bought the chocolate to the left as a puppy. One of the reasons we did was because someone had offered the backyard breeder to buy the whole litter. Now, who buys 7 mixed breed puppies? Dog fighters who need bait dogs! I have been to Sea World many times (boring) and have a nephew who works there. Their animals are not tortured. "Black Fish" was just propoganda.
A human's life is more important than an animals? Is Scott Peterson's life more important? (He killed his wife and unborn child and dumped them in SF bay, Remember?), or David Westerfield's (He molested, killed and dumped Danielle Van Damme of the side of a backcountry road)? I'll take the "animal", thank you!
That said, I'm extremely disappointed in the Steelers for this signing and HOPE that he never gets any playing time. I'll never forgive Vick for what he did.

 

The thing that bothers me right now is those members who have no issue with the signing but yet seem to think those of us that do object are so mercenary that once the wins start happening all is good. I'm more than a little offended by that. To me winning means nothing if you have lost yourself in achieving that goal. That is why I feel so strongly about deflategate. Because winning at all cost and cheating are just wrong. I will never be happy that a win happened at the expense of principle.

 

There are. We call that the 3rd world, and we try to keep it out as much as possible.

 

I'd rather have Tebow!

 

Here is the thing though Steelhurtin, studies have shown the links between sadism and serial killers. So while you maybe right that animal life is slightly less valuable than human life it is not a huge leap to say that serial killers start out torturing and killing small animals and as their thirst for it grows so does their lack of respect for all life not just animal but human as well. If you as a person are wiling to hold a dog's head under water and feel that life slowly pass, how soon before you think what must a human be like.

 

Mistakes? You mean he didn't intend to set dogs to maul each other? Like he set his dog down in the pit without realizing what was going to happen ... over and over again? He mistakenly tortured and starved dogs to get them to tear each other apart by mistake, and then when they didn't perform to his liking, he killed them by mistake?

He set up and ran an entire dog fighting operation by mistake?

His "mistake" is that he got caught. That what he's sorry about. And his PR campaign isn't about trying to make anything right, it's about making himself employable in the NFL again.

 

Nah, we wouldn't want the distraction.

 

btw this from an organization that is too good for Santonio Holmes.

 

Anybody want to wager that when Vick enters the preseason game in Buffalo that the PA announcer plays "Who let the Dogs out"?

 

I will be there and I REALLY hope that doesn't happen. I still don't know how I will react when he enters the game.

 

I would expect a good portion of fans will boo if and when he takes the field. It will be a strange feeling for sure.

 

It would be highly unusual to sign a player in the middle of the week and put him in a game 3 days later, especially at QB....

 

Yeah I feel the opposite of what some are saying. If you think this is a good idea then you're probably just a band wagon fan. A true fan looks past the color of laundry and more towards what the team symbolizes. To me, this move goes against of what I'd like to think of my beloved team. I'm not saying I'm no longer a fan, I'm just saying that I may not look at this team the same way. A bunch of mixed feelings for sure.

 

It won't happen. The dude would likely get fired.

 

That's really weird.

Over here in the UK, somebody phoned the emergency services (999) because they thought it was the government. They wanted to let the Prime Minister know that he was doing a good job, even if everyone was being unfair to him.

It was released as an example of people wasting emergency services time, but I thought it was quite endearing. They sounded quite old and confused.

 

If you think that Vick has changed his stripes, then I have a bridge to sell you. Every move he has made since he was caught was done on purpose to rehab his identity. It comes down to money and he lost a lot when he was caught. There are mistakes and then there is a way of life. His was clearly a way of life and I don't believe for a second that he's remorseful for what he did, only remorseful for losing out on all his money.

 

So its not torture to keep a orca in basically a fish tank? Let's see huge ocean and fish tank yeap they seem the same to me.