Atlanta Falcons Become America's Least Favorite Team

I don't know what kind of unfeeling soul you have to be to fight dogs in pits against one another like Michael Vick did, and apparently the indictment has even worse cruelties in it:

Vick and his codefendants killed no less than 8 dogs that either lost fights or failed fight tests. The method of killing ranged from electrocution, drowning, hanging to slamming a dog’s body to the ground until dead.

Unfathomable, and I say that not just as a dog owner but as a human being.

I don't think this kind of sadism is an outgrowth of football itself, but more from a position of privilege, where the perpetrator thinks he cannot be touched or held accountable. We take kids out of junior high school and pamper them, slide them easily through school, give them tens of millions of dollars, and cover up for them if anything goes wrong. It's the lack of consequences for actions that's the problem.

Thus ends my obligatory monthly sports post.