The
Oregon Daily Emerald (my source for news to know) ran a
sports article today by Josh Norris calling for the immediate dismissal of Michael Vick from the NFL. He is alleged to be heavily involved in a dog fighting ring. I was, at first, ready to dismiss the author's claim that Vick's actions were more heinous than anyone else's in the NFL (remembering here that
Ray Lewis helped kill a guy), but I was convinced.
What Vick has allegedly done is breed these pit bulls, otherwise capable of being gentle and loving, for no other purpose than to later watch them rip into each others' throats for hours on end with the inevitable result being death, either by a shotgun blast outside of the dogfighting arena or through a more merciful injection of euthanasia when it is determined the dog can no longer fight.
But then Norris had to take it too far and ruin the whole thing.
Even worse, money is allegedly bet on these dogs. Not a couple of hundred dollars, either. As reported by Dohrmann, among others, a source familiar with Vick and what goes on at his house says that Vick was "one of the heavyweights" of dogfighting and that sometimes the purses surrounding the fights reach as high as $10,000.
I'm not sure how the betting of a collective $10,000 is worse than raising a dog to kill or be killed, and I am almost sure that Norris didn't mean this either, but Christ, how about a little editing?
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Sloppy editing. My guess is that he was trying to say, "What makes matters even worse is..." but got lazy or had to fit it in the column length.
Speaking of making matters worse, have you heard Clinton Portis' comments about dogfighting.
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