Well, it's finally happened

[yendi]

Native New Yorker or not, I've never been a Giants fan (my hopeless causes instinct has long pointed me towards the Jets). But now that Michael Vick is an Eagle, I'll be rooting for the Giants.

In fact, I'll be rooting for them to play against the Eagles like they did against the Redskins on November 18, 1985.

Of course, the NFC East has always been my least favorite division, anyway, as I've long hated both the Redskins and the Cowboys, and I wasn't exactly an Eagles fan before they got the Dog Torturer as a QB. But now I have to root for the 'Skins and 'Boys against the Eagles, too.

Comments

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

With any luck, the Cowboys/Eagles game will leave no survivors.

rambling and mixed emotions from Philadelphia

[coffeehouse.livejournal.com]

Initially I was very pissed that Vick was reinstated, let alone having the Eagles pick him up.
But, what about second chances?
So I am very mixed on this.
If someone was never raised to treat all living things with respect and has surrounded himself with other ignorant and cruel people, but is then yanked out of that and educated and has done time and community service, do we continue to demonize this person, the Scarlet A on their chest for all time? Or do we watch them and encourage them to be a productive, tax-paying member of society, keeping a close eye out, but allowing them to move on?

I was raised with pets, that pets were sentient beings and equal to us in all ways.

I am appalled at what he's done and did for an extended period of time without any sort of conscious thought that these beings were his wards just as his children are.
I have a hard time believing that he truly regrets anything except getting caught.
But at the same time, I have to allow him the room to grow and learn and atone.

It will be interesting to see how his children turn out.


Also, Philly has such a rep of being a thug city, that this just seems like a really bad joke told in an LA comedy club.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

You don't have to root for the Cowboys.

Although it would have been great if they kept T.O. and if they took Vick... then all my dislike could be placed on my least favorite team.

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

how about rooting for anyone who "happens, accidentally" to fall across his knees?

cleats first, naturally.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

They should just go all-out and sign Pacman Jones, too.

[rain-herself.livejournal.com]

Well, at least one good thing came out of it.