My Take On ESPN's "Michael Vick Town Hall Meeting"
The Sports Oasis —
Will over at Deadspin has a decent rundown on the "event" with links to commentary by ...
You Create The Caption #88
AwfulAnnouncing —
... When You Ask A Group Of People If Dogfighting Is Okay, And They Respond With Cheers, Something Is Seriously Wrong (Deadspin) ...
The human drama of athletic town halls
Sports Scope —
... : " Maybe these loudmouths represent the true voice of Atlanta, a voice which believes Michael Vick was somehow the victim of a massive conspiracy designed to run the most gifted athlete Atlanta's ever seen, a guy who was almost singlehandedly responsible for transforming the team from doormat into perpetual sellout, out of town. Maybe that's it. Or maybe the vast majority of Atlantans have had it with discussing a confessed dogfighter, and are sick to death of manufactured, made-for-TV " events " that try to drive racial wedges into a city that's got enough problems seeing beyond black and white as it is. " - Deadspin : " Man. We're pretty glad we didn't watch this. " If you're more curious/masochistic than Deadspin, ...
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Right Down Peachtree —
... I gave ESPN a pretty decent smacking-around yesterday--good enough that both Deadspin and ...
Michael Vick Supporters More Interested in Seeing Him Play Than Justice Being Served
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... . Moore was one of the panelists at a recent ESPN Town Hall Meeting that turned into a Vick love fest . He said he was disappointed by the constant booing and shouting aimed at anyone who mentioned the slightest shortcoming about the troubled QB. Moore is even angrier at those who would claim Vick as a civil rights "martyr". He writes that those who do so, are " spitting on the graves of Martin (Luther King Jr.), Malcolm (X), Sojourner (Truth), Rosa (Parks), W.E.B. (Dubois), Booker T (Washington) and Frederick (Douglass) ." Moore's main point of contention is that many of these people are throwing their support behind Vick not because they want to see perceived injustices corrected, but because they just want to see him play again on Sundays. " They are angry they can't see Vick zigzagging anymore through defenses. They are angry they can't see Vick reaching the end zone anymore after bec ...
