End the Vick-Timization.. Let Vick Return in Peace

After about a two year hiatus from the NFL, Michael Vick is looking for a team to call home.  After the success of Matt Ryan combined with Michael Vick's new reputation, it is no surprise that Atlanta is looking to trade Vick.  Unfortunately for Vick, most teams are poised to show him the same love he is receiving from his soon-to-be former team.

But what bothers me is why people are still so angry at this man.  Make no mistake about it, I, like most other people, find his treatment of animals disgusting to say the least.  But at what point are we going to move on and let the man return to the game?

Many people are content to never let him play again, from fans to NFL executives.  But if you ask me, this is hands down one of the greatest acts of hypocrisy in all of sports.

I can not say enough that I am sickened by Dog fighting and if I ever crossed paths with something of this brutal nature, I would gladly take a stand against it.  However, why are so many people so willing to use this as a tool to ruin a player's career?

After all, its not like Michael Vick is the only person in pro sports to tarnish his name with legal trouble.  I can name Santonio Holmes, Larry Johnson, Matt Jones, Pacman Jones, Plaxico Burress, and Ray Lewis to name just a few.

So let's get serious, what is so different about Michael Vick at the end of the day?

He killed a bunch of animals through a brutal game that tortures dogs from their youth.

Yeah,

and Ray Lewis killed two people outside of a club in Atlanta.Matt Jones has repeatedly been caught trafficking cocaine. Santonio Holmes and Larry Johnson have gone Ike Turner on their girlfriends so often that the police are about to give them their own Heavyweight division in wife-beating. And Pacman Jones has been involved in an incident where he pulled a gun in strip club.  Then of course there is the clubbing habits of Plaxico Burress that ends in his own bloodshed.

That is only the NFL people!

I am not even getting into the gambling referees in the NBA or the drug addiction in all sports, namely baseball.  I mean baseball has gone through more steroids than a WWE locker room.

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