So how screwed up is it when we pay a recent criminal $1,600,000 this year, and $5,300,000 next year, to play a silly game like football, while untold thousands of men, women, and children in our country (not to mention the rest of the world) languish in abject poverty?
I'm all for second chances, but come on.
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To be fair, is it Vick's fault that they offered him that much money? Should he have said, "No thanks, I don't deserve that kind of money, you should pay me much less because I am evil."
Maybe it's just me, but it blows me away that there is so much outcry over what Vick did to DOGS and so little outcry over what Donte Stallworth did to a HUMAN BEING. Everyone is so hacked off that someone who was cruel to animals gets a second chance but doesn't seem to care about the guy who killed another human being.
I think what Vick did was despicable - but my reaction to the salaries is not based on what he did but on the salaries at large. Eli Manning signed a deal worth almost $100 million. Real Madrid spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 million on players in the last several months. Those are equally problematic to me as Vick's contract.
Joe, I agree about salaries in general--I'm just using Vick to point out the brokenness of our society.
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