Bill Belichick and Michael Vick – NFL Hypocrisy
First, the crime that Michael Vick is accused of – the mind numbing, brutalizing crime of torturing and killing dogs, has a totally different dimension than the indiscretion laid at the feet of the man considered one of the great coaches of his time – Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.
Vick has been suspended indefinitely as he awaits his sentencing.
Belichick, who obviously approved of his team’s supervised spying on other coaches through videotape and who knows what else, was fined a half million dollars and may lose some draft picks.
There is such incredible hypocrisy in this that it defies all limits of good reason. Vick won’t play for years. Belichick won’t even miss a week!
Belichik has cheated, plain and simple. Who knows how long this has been going on? His team is very successful, which makes you wonder why this “genius” of a coach had to resort to illegal tactics. When you cheat on Wall Street, you go to jail. When you cheat in college sports, they throw you out. When you cheat on exams, you are expelled from school. When you cheat in the NFL, they let you keep playing.
Bill Belichik gets a free pass. The money is insigificant. A suspension would be. Ironic, isn’t it, that the NFL Commissioner finds it easy to serve as judge and jury on players, but looks the other way when it comes to a coach.
What a great example this is to young people. Cheaters get off with a fine.
The Bill Belichik episode is indicative of the double-standard that exists in the National Football League. The NFL looks the other way while old time players fight for health care. The NFL allows Bill Belichik to coach non-stop. Do you find something wrong here?
And no. I am not an Eagles fan still smarting over the loss to the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
For a look at a real champion, read the previous story.
Comments(5)
Larry,
I also think Belichik got off too easy. It would disrupt the Patroit’s season, but he needs to be suspended. It’s the only way he’s going to realize how wrong he was. Besides, Belichik’s always been a whiner and whiners seem to feel they’re entitled to win anyway they can and it should just be accepted. He needs to learn a lesson.
Last time I checked, NFL stood for National Football League. Not National Felony League.
He should be fined and it should come out of his OWN pocket.
Michael Vick committed a felony (or more). He broke the law just as someone on Wall Street may break the law. They go to jail.
The Belichick broke a rule of the NFL. The NFl makes rules not laws. If you break a rule in the NFL you get punished by the NFL. If you commit a felony you get punsihed by the appropriate court.
If Michael Vick never plays another down in the NFL, who cares? His agent? His family? Where were the when this idiot was doing what he was doing?
Please. Double standards apply to the same circunstances and different applications of the law and the penalty(ies).
Whoopi Goldberg made atatement he should not be judged as dog fighting is acultural thing in the South. There were other cultural things that went on in the South and that didn’t nor does itnow make them right.
He’s guilty. Go to jail and learn a trade. because he will need it when he gets out.
“There is such incredible hypocrisy in this that it defies all limits of good reason.” Larry
Uh..yeah…you’re right, Larry, guess that is true of the entire public spectrum…and how ’bout that Sandy Burglar? Steals Bill Clinton’s classified documents from the National Archives before anyone (yes, Larry, reporters) can have a look…and now 3$Bill’s wife, Hillary, hires Sandy (the secret documents are down my pants…)so he has a guaranteed job in her cabinet and won’t spill the beans about just what was so important about those secret documents that 3$Bill (or was it Hillary?) sent Sandy on the search and destroy mission with orders that he had to steal ‘em and destroy ‘em. Sounds like a story made for TV and one that maybe a good investigative reporter, like you, Larry, might want to investigate, no?
Oh…Larry, you did think the issue was dead…but come on, Larry, Hillary hires a convicted felon? Shows big cahonnies, no?
…and what about that Marc Rich guy? Pardoned by 3$Bill, hides out in Switzerland, gives a couple of Mill $ to 3$Bill’s Presidential Library…no story there, huh, Larry?
…and since we are speaking about thieves and felons and such, how about that Hsu guy? Ask Hillary and Fast Eddie, they’ll both tell ya what a great guy he is…hmmm…maybe that’s the story about the secret documents that Sandy Burglar purloined…do I smell a Manchurian Candidate here?