Surfing the channels, something caught my eye that I was not really expecting. The Michael Vick Project, which premiered a few weeks ago, documents Michael Vick's journey from an NFL icon turned convict to a normal law obiding citizen. But seeing this on television got me thinking about the publicity that Vick has gotten since his release from the federal penitentiary. I think it would be fair to say that if you don't follow the NFL and didn't see Vick playing for the Philadelphia Eagles this year, you may not even know that Vick was out of prison.
This leads me to believe that he has a team of publicists working tirelessly to build Vick's image somehow back to the level it was when he was playing in Atlanta. He was, as Doc Oc said in his August post compared to "another Hitler" by some clearly irratic critics and is now taking a more gentle approach to his integration back into the limelight of professional sports, that is if he can find another team to take a moral leap and sign him after his 1-year contract with the Eagles expired.
I also think it is interesting the outlet Vick (or his publicists) chose for his "redemptive" series. The series is airing on Black Entertainment Television, or BET. I don't know if Vick is trying to speak to a specific audience by airing the show on this network, or if BET was the only channel to take on the show.
I personally feel that Vick is taking the right approach to the "reconstruction" of his image. I won't dive into my feelings of his initial arrest but I certainly feel Vick deserves another chance. He has done his time and I believe, has the talent to make it in the NFL today.
What do you think, does Mike deserve another chance? What do you think of his attempts at integration and the rebuilding of his image?
I think that Micheal Vick does deserve another chance, and his publicists are trying to give him one. Although he broke the law, I felt that the public outcry outweighed the actual crime. Now that he has admitted he was wrong over and over again, it is time for people to start talking about the old Vick again-- the football player and not the dog killer.
ReplyDeleteI agree with BFlan that he definetly deserves another chance at shot at the NFL. He messed up once and now has his head on straight and he knows that if he messes up again, even just once, he's out of the NFL forever and I think that he has honestly changed. I think he deserves a chance to be a starting quarterback and show he still has the skill that made him good years ago. I think people should get over the crime that he committed and accept him as a changed person.
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