In honor of the Philadelphia Eagles signing Michael Vick, Blanca proposes the first ever Dog Shit Day at Veterans Field.
The Eagles did not disclose the details of the 2-year deal with Vick, but Fox Sports quotes those close to the deal that the first year will be for $1.6 million, with the second year option being worth $5.2 million.
As many of the people currently trying to derail healthcare reform in favor of death often point out, this is neither a left or a right issue. People of all walks have loved man’s best friend. Republicans and Democrats have equally loved dogs. To animal lovers, the prospect that Michael Vick may be a role model to young children is an anathema.
Tony Dengy, a former NFL coach now acting as a mentor to Vick, says that everyone makes mistakes, especially in youth.
I’m sorry, but Mr. Vick is an adult, and a rich adult at that. His “mistakes” were not the folly of youth and inexperiece, but were committed as an adult who should have known better. Whatever experiences Vick may have experienced as a youth cannot be held up as an excuse for his abhorrent behavior.
For those of you living under a rock, Michael Vick was charged with being a member of a dog fighting ring. After he signed a plea bargain admitting his involvement with the Bad Newz Kennels, he was indefinitely suspended from the NFL on August 24, 2007.
Most football fans and animal lovers assumed this was the end of a brilliant career. But money won out over ethics. OMG, I cannot believe I just wrote that as a Republican! Well, just like the Supreme Court decision of 2000 in Gore v. Bush, this is in no way a precidence and will never be repeated again.
Blanca urges her fans in the City of Brotherly Love (the actual city and not the all-male porn film by the same name) to show their support for our four-legged friends and their disgust with Eagles ownership and management.
The best way to display this anger is to take a page from the red-faced screaming nut jobs, I mean voters, who have been disrupting town hall meetings on healthcare around the country. If you want to get noticed, you have to be loud and disruptive. As Che noted, you don’t have to say much, but you have to say it loud.
Scream, holler, stamp your feet. But most importantly, bring a bag of dog shit to the next Eagles game. If you don’t have a dog of your own, I am sure you can ask a friend or neighbor for a bag of choice droppings from his or her little mutt. Just make sure the bag is full and fresh.
Once you are seated in the stadium, wait until the team comes out on the field. When Vick walks on the turf, throw your bag of dog shit with all your might. A rain of dog shit will fall on the Eagles, and will let them know that we will not tolerate a viscious dog killer in our midst.
For those of you who not have access to a dog, cat shit will work as a perfectly fine substitute. If you have no pets, just collect grandma’s used Depends before her HMO, I mean Obama, euthenizes her.
Just make sure there is more shit on the playing field than, well, the last sucky season the Eagles had before they fell ass backwards into winning the Super Bowl.
Show your love for dogs. Join Blanca for the first ever Dog Shit Day at the next Eagles home game.
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Blanca,
With all due respect, your article fails to acknowledge that Mike Vick grew up in a neighborhood and culture where dog fighting is sport. While that fact certainly does not absolve Vick of his decision to finance dog fighting, it has merit on establishing why he thought it was okay. Dog fighting in the black community is and has always been sport. The brutality of dog fighting is tantamount to chicken and rooster fights dating back to the slave trade which whites created. For those who choose to exercise self righteous views, go ahead and protest. Mike Vick has paid for his crime. We have people walking the streets who committed far worse acts against humanity and received far less prison time and no one stands to protest the decisions of injustice that occur in the black community everyday. Mike Vick is still a hero to those of us in the black community. What he did may have been wrong, but we believe in giving people a second chance. Anyway, once Vick starts contributing and becomes a winner in football, all will be forgiven. He has been contrite, and honest. What more can he do?
And in the culture I grew up in, it was acceptable for people to own other people, but does that excuse me from going down the street corner and trying to throw a chain on the first young person I find?