Can we honestly watch Vick on television, dressed in the colors of the Philadelphia Eagles, without imagining what it must have been like for those frightened dogs that he either drowned or tortured to death by electrocution?
Apparently we can. At least that’s the message we’ve sent during Vick’s much-ballyhooed return this season to the National Football League.
Network TV has lined up for interviews, and heavily promoted Vick, hoping to generate higher ratings. Newspapers and web pages have filled their notebooks with Vick propaganda in an effort to increase readership. And we the sports fan have lapped it all up with the enthusiasm of — excuse the reference — a hungry dog at dinner time.
This Sunday, sports’ most notorious figure, will step out into the sunshine at Qualcomm Stadium when the Chargers host Philadelphia. Other than a few PETA types sprinkled throughout the area, will anybody care?
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