Michael Vick: Dallas Mayor Awards Vick Key to the City

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Michael Vick Awarded Key to City, Ignites Controversy.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was awarded the key to the city by Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on Saturday, continuing Vick's rise since being sent to prison for heading a dog fighting ring.

Vick, who became a force in the NFL this season in his first full year with the Eagles after prison, has not only elevated his play on the field since breaking in with the Atlanta Falcons, he's also gained some respect as a person amongst some of the public, who feel he's a changed man.

Others, however, are skeptical, judging by an uproar that ensued from animal rights activists following the granting of the Dallas key on Saturday.

Caraway had an answer for critics.

Via ESPN:

"The message and the kids are far greater than all this response about, 'Why give him the key to the city?'" Caraway told ESPNDallas on Monday afternoon. "He is telling kids and exchanging with them the rights and wrongs of the things that he did and encouraging kids to further their education and to not deal with the drugs. To obey their parents and pick the people they hang around.

"That's a message I would challenge anybody to say that not one kid across America shouldn't hear from people in notoriety such as Michael Vick."

Vick has appeared to be a changed man in Philadelphia, not the same brash and cocky player he was when he entered the league.

But some people feel his past transgressions shouldn't be forgotten, especially after just a year of handling himself well.

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