Mike Vick recently joined the Chiefs coaching staff as an intern during training camp. Unfortunately for Vick, his past is catching up to him, and it seems that no one in Missouri is really happy that he’s there.
The Kansas City Star wrote a blazing article highlighting Vick’s transgressions in the dog fighting world.
Here’s a culture clash for you: If you’d never before heard of convicted dog torturer Michael Vick, who just joined the Kansas City Chiefs as a coaching intern, you would not have gotten any hint from the reaction in the sports world to his arrival here that this was anything other than a wildly exciting turn of events.
Let’s just say we don’t see it that way.
We don’t understand how thinking it was highly entertaining to watch trained pit bulls fatally attack family pets at his appropriately named Virginia dogfighting operation, the Bad Newz Kennels, might make the former star pro quarterback just the right guy to mentor and mold other football players.
The team’s website ran a good-news piece headlined, “Andy Reid on Michael Vick Helping at Camp: ‘He Brings That Respect.’” Really, guys? He also brings a rap sheet, and played for Reid, the Chiefs’ coach, in Philadelphia after his release from federal prison in 2009.
True, the man has served his time. But Vick’s actions were so monstrously cruel that we can’t agree that, as one Chiefs fan unironically put it on the team’s Facebook page, critics should “stop beating a dead horse.”
Ironically enough, Vick recently said that former 49ers QB, Colin Kaepernick, is not getting any new deals in the NFL because of his image and suggested that cutting his hair would help him. While Vick has a job with the Chiefs, fans and media are outraged and speaking against it. In addition, several Virginians are protesting him being able to be inducted into his alma mater’s hall of fame.