Mike Vick's letter to Atlanta

The sad thing is there will always be a group of Falcons fans who never accept Matt Ryan because they're still enamored with Vick, even though Ryan is a significantly better player and face of the franchise.

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Very cool. He seems to have really grown and learned from the experience.

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The fact that he and the Falcons and specifically Matt Ryan have built a good relationship is great. The letter is one of the proudest I've ever been as a Falcons fan.

Well...Matt Ryan is nowhere near the athletic specimen that Vick. Ryan is easily the best QB we have had but I think Vick is the greatest athlete the franchise has ever had. I'd place him above Julio although their work ethics aren't close to comparable.

Wow, class act. Vick was good for the Falcon organization. He brought fans in that normally would not have cared and actually built the fan base up some. But what he did to the organization cannot be forgotten. He let them down.

I'm glad that he's not bitter towards the Falcons. And I hope that he can take some pride in having helped build this Super Bowl Championship team.

Classy...I like Vick...

That was a well written and eloquent statement. I feel empathy for him. But I still can't get the image of those dogs being electrocuted, hanged, or drowned, out of my head.

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Agreed. And while I don't question the sincerity of attaching his name to that letter, my skeptical side absolutely refuses to let me believe that he wrote the entire thing himself. To have heard him express himself during his time here in Atlanta, one would immediately question the quality of education being provided at VA Tech.

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I always was surprised how eloquent Vick was in interviews....

Vick was on the cusp of becoming a Michael Jordanesque figure in Atlanta....maybe not the world but in Atlanta he was that close...and then he was destroyed by nothing more than political correctness. What he was convicted of is deplorable and something a person ought to be cussed for and their reputation as a decent person forever tarnished...but it shouldn't be a crime. He was locked up for not coming completely clean in an investigation that should have never been going on as a criminal investigation in the first place. What he did is despicable and heinous but at the end of the day it is no worse than what is done to chickens and cows everyday....dogs, chickens and cows are property...let one of them cause someone damage and the courts will tell you immediately they are property...and as such the state should not be able to dictate how you treat your property. The NFL certainly had a right to punich Vick but he was locked up because the public didn't like what he had done and the judge determined he hadn't be completely honest.....being cruel to animals is despicable but if it is your animal the state shouldn't be in the business of taking away your freedom, despicable as you may be, for not treating your property the way they see fit....

I'm happy to see Vick mature into a better person. I remember playing against him in college, and thinking he was the most gifted QB I had ever seen. I mean he was damn untouchable. He made our whole defense look stupid on pretty every play. Anyway, great read thanks for posting.

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This is horse shite. What he did was 100% a crime and should be. Hanging and electrocuting dogs is extremely fricked up.

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There is no debate that what he did is fricked up. It shouldn't be illegal though...it was his property. I agree 100% that anyone who would do such shite should be an outcast....but the state has no business putting them away because you and I do not like what they do with their property when it does not impact us in the smallest way other than our own sensitivity.

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What he did is despicable and heinous but at the end of the day it is no worse than what is done to chickens and cows everyday



Cows and chickens are killed for food, and they aren't killed in the horrendous way that Vick and his dogfighting ring killed those dogs.

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So it would have been OK had he eaten the dogs? The ways that chickens and cows are dispatched include hanging and electrocution also. I don't like the way chickens are raised and dispatched at all but I like the way they taste.

Mike Vick did a horrible thing and he should have lost any and all endorsements and he should have never been allowed NEAR the NFL in any way ever again...his actions damaged a very lucrative brand....nothing he did warrants the state taking away his freedom....I don't like the idea of anyone having sex with Rosie Odonnell and I am sure a large number of folks "feel" the same way....making it illegal based on those "feelings" is an over reach by the people and the state...

I still call BS on his actually writing the letter. It's far too well put together to be Vick in his own words. Signing his name to the letter and being the one who penned it are totally different.