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Mail Shoot: Enough With This Braves Crap! When’re You Gonna Sink Your Teeth Into The Vick Story?
By Jay Busbee | June 9, 2007
Got a letter from loyal reader Johnny F. in Centreville, Va., who writes:
“Yer killin’ me here — all the latest on Michael Vick and the dog fighting and not one word of it on SGS? You run a nice bit on his restaurant biz but nothing on why the guy likes to keep kennels painted India-ink black on his property? (Oh, wait, that’s his relative’s property - no, wait, the ‘cuz said it was Mike’s place…hmmm…) Or how the Feds found betting slips on his property (labeled oh-so-cleverly to an oh-so-hard-to-figure-out “M. Vick” I tell ya, with comrades like that, why bother with being clever?)? And the dawgs that are too vicious to be used as pets? And STILL nothin’?…C’mon, man, the Nats have a 6-game lock on last place in the NL, the Wizards couldn’t beat a team of grannies in wheelchairs, and the ‘Skins spent their draft patching up some outer holes instead of solidifying their offensive line to see if they’ll be able to get within sighting distance of those things known as goalpoasts next season, so if yer a Washingtonian, there’s not really a lot to follow up here ‘cept stuff like this!”
Okay, mea culpa. We give. We’re writing a piece on Vick right now for Atlanta magazine, but we haven’t covered the Vick story here for a couple reasons:
1. In the dog-eat-dog world of the blogosphere, several sites have already marked their territory, most notably Kissing Suzy Kolber with their “Offseason Adventures Of Mike Vick” series, which absolutely buries the bone on humor. And really, we’re dog-tired of the dog’s breakfast of canine puns. At this point, that dog don’t hunt, dawg.
2. Honestly — and yes, we’re dog lovers, so we know there’s a bit of cognitive dissonance going on here — we kinda wish the whole thing would just go away. (As does Mr. Vick, no doubt.) Atlanta’s not Kansas City or Milwaukee, lacking in any kind of real sports identity, but still — we’ve got a rep for having bland or flat-out dull athletes on our teams. We’d said for years that all the Hawks needed was one Kobe/Iverson/LeBron to liven up the fans and you’d have sellouts every night; Vick proved that by pulling a messianic miracle of resuscitating the corpse of the Falcon fan base. Good, bad, whatever, people were talking about the Falcons, and they weren’t prefacing it with “upcoming guaranteed wins include…” We just can’t see Joey Harrington getting anybody but Mrs. Harrington that fired up, and maybe not even her.
Unfortunately, we know this is probably going to end in, at least, a suspension for Vick. If we were him, we’d be trolling remote mountain passes, looking for busloads of nuns and babies to save.
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Topics: Falcons, Football, Crime, Mail Shoot |
