Michael Vick Earned His Falcon Wings

No, it is not the best year to be an Atlanta Falcons fan and no, if you ever were, or still are a Mike Vick fan, you had better not admit to it in public.

It’s like this; in some ways, football is a lot like politics.
(I see that look on your face but, you know I’m right.)

With both, you will find people who are often so completely devoted to a player or a team that it just goes well beyond all sense or reason. In fact, a heartfelt devotion to a football team is about as close as you can get to politics without actually diving head first into the red/blue septic tank.

But the opposite side of this coin is the one with a dull, tarnished finish, and adoration has nothing to do with the sentiment.

Just as some will love one player, they will hate another and Lord Baby Jesus help your immortal soul if you dare utter the name, Michael Vick, without spitting on the ground in the same sentence!

Forget that this guy ever played for the Atlanta Falcons, much less that he did so fairly well for several seasons, even leading them to the playoffs more than once. He ran afoul of the law, afoul of those who love critters and so naturally too, just as much (if not more) afoul of our beloved main scream media.

Case closed, the man is the anti-Christ. Think his name even silently and you will be damned to hell eternal.

And sorry, no. Not a one will pray for your salvation either. Suck sulfur and die you devil-spawned Vick lover!

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Okay, enough of that. I am a Falcons fan and have been since before the majority of you began leaving skid marks in your pull-ups. My opinion (for what it’s worth on the gallows) is that Vick earned his wings wearing a Falcons jersey and you can’t take that away.

If you really want to gripe about something worth your time, begin by complaining about how this team allowed itself to waltz into the 2009 season missing its defense. Ask just how it was that, all at once, the veteran core of the Falcons D was allowed to walk away to free agency.

Matt Ryan or Chris Redman or even (eeek!) Mike Vick would have a hard time putting up points when there was nothing to stop opposing teams from pretty much scoring at will, ya know?

Um, please put that keyboard down and back away. There's no need for that kind of behavior.

Hey, wait a minute! I think I just saw Mike Vick up in Buckhead sipping a cold beer and rooting for the Saints! We always knew he and Aaron Brooks had them games rigged!!

(Whilst the mob is lighting their torches in search of Frankenstein, I think I’ll casually mosey out the back door…)