Breaking News: Vick will not admit to killing dogs or gambling

Ookie the Hokie in the pokey?

 

And that's what it's all aboot (Just for you Flash)

 

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The NFL indefinitely suspended Michael Vick without pay Friday just hours after he acknowledged in court papers that he did, indeed, bankroll gambling on dogfighting and helped kill some dogs not worthy of the pit.
Vick, however, insisted he placed no bets of his own nor took any winnings.
In disciplining Vick, commissioner Roger Goodell said Vick’s admitted conduct was “not only illegal but also cruel and reprehensible” and regardless whether he personally placed bets, “your actions in funding the betting and your association with illegal gambling both violate the terms of your NFL player contract and expose you to corrupting influences in derogation of one of the most fundamental responsibilities of an NFL player.”

 

Good on Goodell.

 

Five pages and nary of mention of just how incredible inaccurate that ESPN report was? They touted it as news, didn't put a byline on the story, and then were completely wrong.

One almost wonders if they rushed to get this out ... somewhat in response to Slate hammering them.

 

Best I can tell whatever passes for a desk at ESPN.com tries to re-write wire service stories, then tries to pass them off as its own, and invariably messes them up.

 

Can we finally refer to Vick as an ex-Falcon now? His teammates refer to him as an "ex-teammate", he is suspended indefinitely. So what if he is still technically on the roster.

 

Don't think that's the case here. They had this on the .com as 'sources tell ESPN.' It was picked up by Yahoo and SI, among others. Somebody had shaky info (turned out to be completely wrong info) and the site went with it.

 

Make it permanent. We don't want to hear his excuses/apologia/fake remorse bullshit.

A shot across the bow of Thug Nation.

 

Mostly because it would come from his attorney and not from himself. It is so bizarre that the only public speaking he's done since the indictment was on a crappy Atlanta radio station.

 

Tell that to an animal that's been trapped ..