NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp with the Atlanta Falcons until the league has reviewed his legal troubles stemming from federal dogfighting charges.
Vick's playing status is to be determined by Goodell, and the NFL gave no timetable for the decision other than to announce that the review would be completed "as soon as possible."
"While it is for the criminal justice system to determine your guilt or innocence, it is my responsibility as commissioner of the National Football League to determine whether your conduct, even if not criminal, nonetheless violated league policies, including the personal conduct policy," Goodell wrote Vick in a letter yesterday, according to an NFL statement.
- Washington Post
Of course, the NFL got something like 100,000 emails and calls from angry animal lovers about this case (Too Saucy's was one of them!) Without that response, I wonder if they would have been quite so proactive or if it would have been business as usual.
3 comments:
this is a PR nightmare. A primetime player is "allegedly" behind the cruel fates of pit bulls. Not cool, I wish the other heads at MLB and NBA had the same intestinal fortitude
Nah, this will be forgotten by the time the season starts and he will be playing -- business as usual.
Agree, drugs and sex scandals - ALL the major leagues should show some intestinal fortitude obob.
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