Vick: Up In Smoke

He really is as dumb as he looks. With no room for errors, now he pulls (or drags) this. Rumor has it he and Ricky Williams are headed to Amsterdam right after the trial.

Vick Jury Is Chosen

Thanks To Still A Dad For Link

Why does this particular jury only have 8 members? Is it dog math, like dog years vs. human years? We need 4 more dogs. Here are my suggestions....Marmaduke for starters maybe? How about that big bulldog from Looney Toons, Bellvedere? I always liked DynoMutt from Blue Falcon, but I think he may have been a robot which would disqualify him. I know, Woofer and Whiner from the short lived "Clue Club"! Wait a minute...wasn't Goofy a wolf? Pluto was the dog....Goofy was a wolf...wasn't he? No Lassie? No Tiger from The Brady Bunch? What about Rawlph from The Muppets? Fred Basset? Surely the artist could have had a jury of 12. I think he was lazy. Clearly the 8 picked were not even the most notable. It was a superb idea. Snooby and Scooby are slam dunks. Not sure I like his choices after that. At the very least he could have added Still A. Dog.

Paul Zeise Update

I emailed both the Post and Mr. Zeise last night expressing my concern for the level of backlash against him and basically agreeing with his point. While the Post did not reply, I got a nice email from Zeise thanking me for my support and saying that he was overwhelmed by all of the positive support. The only thing I have left to say is that I hate it that people like Paul have to go back in the public eye and say "I'm Sorry". I wish he would have called a press conference to apologize and then go off on a tirade about how people can't handle the truth and how he is in fact 180 degrees from being sorry. Yeah, I said it. I suggest anyone who reads this and agrees should go to the Post-Gazette website and email them and tell them that you support Paul Zeise.

Political Correctness Sucks

This is crazy! The guy was making an analogy and basically, I agree with him! The Mike Vick story is getting way more press than Kobe Bryant got when accused of rape. Way more. How many games did Kobe miss? Vick could go to jail for 6 years. If he had raped a girl, basically it would have been his word against hers. His $1,000,000 lawyers vs. what? The girl may have broke down and refused to press charges. Sadly, the dogs cannot make that decision. The more I think about his reasoning, the more I agree with him. It's a sad state of affairs when this poor SOB was just making a comment and now everybody has their panties in a bunch because he brought up rape. Sad. Keep your head up Paul Zeise.

Thug Has Stupid Fans

I saw on the news tonight that the first courtroom appearance for Vick was attended by many protesters. I also noticed, though, that maybe 10% of the crowd was actually wearing Vick jerseys and visors and clapping for him on the other side of the street. The only reason I can even think of for supporting Vick at this point...is that the man is lawfully innocent until proven guilty and some people may have a problem with the way public opinion is swaying. If that's their case....they don't need to be decked out in Vick clothing - their issue should be with the media. You know what would be justice? In a close game when Vick can't read the defense and gets tackled behind the line of scrimmage after dancing around to lose the game....the Falcon's defense should just pick him up and repeatedly slam his body to the ground, then dump some NFL approved Gatorade on him and hook him up to a car battery while he's still wet.

Emmitt Smith = Not Smart

I don't even want to put a picture of this idiot on my website. When he was on NFL Network, Trizzle and I often opined about his lack of intelligent comments. He says the most vanilla things you've ever heard..."To beat the Colts, you'll have to stop Peyton Manning". Thanks, Einstein. Well, ESPN saw something they liked (probably thought women may be interested since he won Dancing With The Stars) because they hired him this year. They may be regretting that right about now over some things he said about the Vick case. This is just one of the stories. Another has him saying so what if he went to 1..or even 5 dogfights. Apparently he didn't even read the indictment or know about the brutal slaughter of some of the dogs. It's just one country guy looking out for another country guy they say. I say "BULLSHIT!". Emmitt has all these businesses and they say he is a good business man....but I have never heard him say anything thought provoking or intelligent on TV. In the middle of this mess, to do anything but condemn Vick is idiotic. If he's so smart, why not just say "I don't want to comment until all the facts are out". He is making it out like they went after him because he's famous. No asshole, they went after him because it is a sickening, brutal sport and Vick took delight in torturing the dogs that weren't "game" enough for him...eventually killing them by means I don't even want to type. When you are a supposed NFL deity, you may want to read a few facts about something before you spout off on it.....jerk.

Wanted: Guest Writer

Being that Still A Dog is the biggest lover of dogs I know, I'm going to ask him to write a post on this. I can't wait to read it.

Good From Great

My keeper fantasy football team was in trouble. I always had 2 of my 3 keepers as running backs. What I was lacking was a franchise quarterback. I traded for Kordell Stewart after the 1997 season only to see him not hold up. I kept 2 rbs and a wr for a few years and tried to pluck a young guy as a backup qb to take over for me in the future...like a Joey Harrington. Nothing. Then one offseason, I was able to engineer a trade with another team who had an outstanding starter AND a young backup whom he couldn't start, Michael Vick. I thought I had my qb for the next 7 years. What I did was suffer through 2 seasons of mediocre play and feast or famine (mostly famine) scoring. I dropped Vick the next year. Why is any of this relevant? Because you cannot explain to a rational person how someone with so much God given talent can screw it up and throw it all away. This post could be 10,000 words or 300 and still get the same message across. So few people can actually play qb in the NFL that it pains me to see people like Peyton Manning eat, drink and sleep football and continue to improve while people like Vick sign their big contracts and then try to rely on talent alone instead of working on getting better. How on Earth do you have time to be a "player" in the world of dogfighting and then act like you care about football? You have to be a student. Mike Vick is not trying his hardest to succeed and for that, his ex-coach's dad is right - he is a coach killer. Why do I care about this? Because this season may define our own Ben Roethlisberger's legacy. Is he going to development into a premier consistent qb who can win games on his own, or is he going to be a beast one week and disappear the next? Are the next 10 years going to be great because of him, or heart wrenching because of him? I saw enough in the first two years to believe strongly that he will come out of his funk from last year and lead the team like we think he can. He should be the team leader now. No more Porter antics. No more Faneca whining. Serious football. I want him to make the correct reads.....even if they play isn't successful. Even if he overthrows or underthrows people. I want him to protect the ball - throw it away if he has to. No fumbles from center. This is the year Big Ben has to decide if he's going to be great or not. He has the ability. He has the talent. He won a Super Bowl ring as part of a team where he wasn't the team leader or the key player defenses had to stop. Now I want him to be the unquestionable leader on and off the field. It's time to be better than good. The team has to make a decision soon as to how he fits into the plans for the future. How much money and for how many years are they going to invest? Show them you're worth it.

Vick Is The Answer

It just hit me watching NFL Network at lunch today - Mike Vick is the NFL's version of Allen Iverson. Flashy, exciting to watch, sells tickets in home city, scores points - what's not to like? Doesn't grasp the team concept, doesn't make players around him better, doesn't play defense (ha!), kills coaches......oh, ok. The Sixers couldn't win with AI but wouldn't trade him and seemed content to just be competitive and make the playoffs every year - or barely miss. It was never bad enough to demand his trade and they did win the opener against the Lakers the one time they did make it to the finals. The Falcons appear to be heading in that direction as they faltered again in the second half of this season and ended up getting Jim Mora Jr. fired. You may never be out of a game when down by 14 points with Vick as your quarterback as he can take it to the house on any play. If you want that kind of excitement out of your quarterback, then you have to live with not having too many 80 yard touchdown drives and all the three-and-outs that come with it. They seem like a match made in heaven, don't they? If Whisenhunt goes there, don't expect him to last more than 3 seasons.