"Im gettin Rosa Parks'ed back here"

               The title has nothing to do with this post but it was something I said to a flight attendent asking if i could get a closer seat on the plane trip back from Vegas. Dont worry, the plane was empty and I got a better seat. Everyone thought it was funny...at least I did.

               So the NFL is coming to a close for the season. Well at least the regular season is almost over and the playoffs will start soon. More importantly I didn’t make it past the first round in Fantasy playoffs. There is always next year. That is the key to football and the phrase that gets tossed around all the time. But throughout this entire season, there were some key occurrences that everyone decided to talk about all the time and harp on the negative impact that it had on the sport. Most of which are more recent than others but some carried out through the entire season. Let’s dive in.

                As everyone knows, Michael Vick is back playing football after his jail spree and dog killing days. Not only is he playing, he is starting. He also has more rushing yards than some running backs. Can you say that Tim Hightower has 613 yards this season? I think not. What a terrible fantasy pick up by me. What about 2755 passing yards? Matt Shaub can’t say that he did that either with confidence. I don’t even want to get into how many touchdowns he had because it would make everyone else look silly. Let’s just say that David Akers had more points than most of the players in the NFL this season…kicking. Why am I bringing up this “dog killer”? Simply because, that is all everyone can associate with him. Yes, he in fact did kill many dogs over the years until he was caught. Yes, it is one of the worst things that could be done in today’s modern society. Yes, he did go to jail and did deserve everything that happened to him because of his stupidity. For the most part this is all people care about.

                “Did you see Vick score 50 points last week?”

                “Yes I did but he is still a dog killer.”

                WHO CARES?! Get over it. I will be the first to admit it was a stupid, idiotic thing to do. Inexcusable. But that was in the past. Does everyone disagree with George Bush and Barak Obama for all the choices they have made in the past? Yes they do and that is fact regardless of party affiliation. But Michael Vick is an outstanding athlete. Always has and always will be. How long is everyone going to hate, and I do mean hate because people still talk so negatively about him, when he is winning games and taking a team to the playoffs single-handedly? From the looks of it, forever. Grow up. People always talk about giving second chances and forgetting the past if they do right in the future. You know what I say to all those jabronies who hate on Vick? “You’re livin in the past mannnnnnnn”

                What would jebus do?

                Ask yourself this: Who is worse for what they did?

                                Michael Vick, for killing dogs and paying the price?

Or

                                Michael Jackson for touching kids…for years… never facing the jury?

                That’s what I thought.

                Next on the list, which I have discussed with many people and it is always about different situations is the whole fighting on the field ordeal. Mainly, about the most recent fight between Andre Johnson, of the Houston Texans, and Courtland Finnegan, of the Tennessee Titans in late November. Before I go any further into this thought, I will make my point now and say fighting on the field of play in any sport is unnecessary and very unprofessional. I would never sit and watch a game and say, “man I hope there is a fight today.” It makes both parties look childish and is just wrong. Grow up you big babies and play football.

                I digress.  Now as bad as this fight was and as terrible as it made both of them look, I feel that this was necessary. Finnegan is a dirty player and always has been. Everybody knows it and it is no secret. He just messed with the wrong guy and obviously someone that was 3 times his size. After the incident, Johnson goes public and apologizes for his actions. Paraphrasing the interview he “was sorry” and “that was not me out on the field”. But I see it a little different. Johnson should be proud of what he did. Yes there are politics involved in every sport and it’s all about appearance, especially when there is so much money in contracts these days. But come on. This guy is a DICK to everyone all the time. He needed someone to put him in his place. And you know what? You were just the guy to do it. You are about 75lbs of pure muscle mass bigger than him, faster, and have hands the size of basketballs. No wonder you have so many touchdowns and over 1000 yards on the season. If I were Finnegan, I would try and find a smaller receiver, someone who actually matches up in size to put hands on. But no, he had to pick someone who was obviously bigger than him.

                Would you let someone at a bar or social situation keep pushing you around all night? Would you sit there and take it and watch the same person do it to everyone else? I don’t think so.

                Twitter and Facebook blew up almost immediately after the altercation took place. People praising Johnson for doing the right thing, that everyone has more respect for him now, and that they were proud to be a Texans fan. These are the people speaking for the people. Should Johnson have apologized publically? Yes he should have. He is smart and knows how to play both the political game and also the game of football. Everyone needs to lay off him and “let it be”. He didn’t cheat on his wife, he didn’t have relations with 14 different women, and he didn’t do anything that bad. As I can remember, no one has really brought the matter up. So it’s not a big deal.

                Everyone that knows me knows I am not the most intelligent football/sports critic. That’s ok, I never said I was and I know I never will be. But, these were some big situations that came up and that actually are still being talked about to some extent. And if you think I have a different stand on the matter discussed, then you obviously didn’t read my opening statements. These are just my own thoughts and they are as simple as I have described them above.

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-DeeG