Vick-torious

Vick-tomized

As a person that has watched Michael Vick since college, and when he arrived in Atlanta to play for the Falcons, almost changed allegiances to teams. Yet, it still broke my heart to see him fall from grace. During the years I lived in Atlanta attending Morehouse College, watching Vick on Sundays was the greatest. Michael Vick singled handily made the Falcons a team to be feared.

Yet, what goes up must come down, and my how Vick came down. He broke the hearts of millions of fans and none fans of football in Atlanta, not to mention killing dogs. Some say he has paid his debt to society, others say he should be banned from the game for life. Well, I say he should have never gone to jail for killing dogs anyway. As a lover, and owner of dogs, what he did was wrong, but as a human being and a fan of football, hell, fine the man and lets go on with life. Not only was he fined, but he lost two years of his life to jail, was if really worth all that. I believe that if he was white, we would not be having this conversation. But oh, how the media loves pulling down black men that have power and grace.

However, this is the past, what must Vick do to change his future. I think he should do a press conference stating his plans and is vision for righting the wrong he has done. Then I think he should spend the summer visiting schools, vet clinic and charity organization. He must rebuild his character. Then he needs to go to the Commissioners office and cry his eyes out, about everything he has learned. He needs to find a mentor, key word “men,” and spend as much time with them  as he can for the rest of his career. He also needs to seek out consul from a minister, and he must stay low key for at least 3 years or the end of his career. Yet, all of this is on the field, what does Vick need to do on the field to rebuild his brand.

Well, the first thing he must do is get reinstated to the league, then he needs to find a team that will take him and all his baggage. Then he needs to work bis butt off to stay on the team and be a starter or second string. If by some form of luck, he is a starter some where, he needs to stay health throughout the season. He then needs to allow his talent to take control of him and become better than he ever was.

Now, there will be so many people that will not like Vick being back as a productive citizen, and they will not like him playing football. Well, it is to bad, sorry, let the man live his life, and those of use who love football, sit back and watch this gift we know as Michael Vick, and I hope at the end of the day he is Vick-torious.