A Scrambled Up Mess

The ongoing saga of Michael Vick is continuing at a pretty impressive rate. Just a few months ago, the only things Vick had to worry over no end were a water bottle & some instances where he gave fans the finger...nothing to get hung up about here.

But how things have changed since then. If it were up to Vick to do so, he'd gladly give up a season or two of football to get himself out of this latest tangle of charges against him, in regards to that dogfighting ring. As if it really matters since he isn't going to be playing this season anyhow, not if Falcons owner Arthur Blank, NFL commish Roger Goodell, etc. can help it. The next question remains to be answered: will Vick ever play in the NFL again?

Well, I can see the look in a lot of the GMs/team owners' eyes (Blank included) right now & it is dominated by nothing but consternation. "Who in their right mind would want a QB who's the poster child for animal abusers worldwide? I wouldn't & neither would our fans." Hard to imagine, indeed, how even the fans would feel about this whole ordeal. Then again, this wouldn't sit well with them either, given the fact that Vick is the lowest of the low, the worst of the worst when it comes to animals.

As if it really matters. Now Vick has a lot more to be concerned about & that doesn't mean getting paid to play in a Falcons uniform on Sundays anymore: it's about finding a way to avoid prison time. And it will take a lot more than his QB skills to dodge the latest batch of news surrounding this case. Two more of his cohorts are heading to court this week to enter their plea bargains, in hopes of getting their sentences cut down. Not good news for Vick by any stretch since his 3 co-defendants are leaving him high & dry in their eagerness to tell the court everything under the sun about the dogfighting ring of which they were a part of.

Vick doesn't have many options to consider & what options are available don't look very promising: first of all, he could plead guilty & anticipate less than 5 years behind bars. Or secondly, he could decide to go to trial, hear his former buddies spill the beans & risk getting more time in the clink. Wow, the case against the man has moved alarmingly fast...his co-defendants are cutting deals, eyebrows are being raised: the prison doors will soon open for their next occupants.

Once upon a time Vick was the star of the show for the Atlanta Falcons, a very brilliant though at times unpredictable QB who turned plenty of heads for sure. But now his endorsements are gone, his career itself is almost over for good. Plenty of folks who never saw the man in person loathe him with a passion & even his entourage has become a group of sworn enemies. In a sense, he's like the QB trying to evade a blitzing defense & finding no means of escape, a trap of his own making which his offensive line isn't going to get him out of.

Talk about Vick getting himself into a scrambled-up mess; the latest news concerning the course the courts will take in his case isn't making things any easier for a man who up to his indictments had everything going his way & then some. If anything, it's going to clamp the screws down even tighter on Vick & with it his chances of redemption in any way, shape or form.