{"id":1565,"date":"2009-07-28T06:31:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/28\/goodell-hands-vick-a-serious-setback\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T00:04:07","slug":"goodell-hands-vick-a-serious-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/28\/goodell-hands-vick-a-serious-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodell hands Vick a serious setback."},"content":{"rendered":"

It is hard for me to argue in favor of Vick because what Vick did was wrong. Vick is now a convicted felon, he needs to get his life back together, and playing in the NFL is not some sort of inalienable right. With that said, as I wrote over the weekend, Vick has already paid a hard price. He did not deserve to be suspended on top of serving jail time. As ESPN columnist Howard Bryant<\/a> wrote, Vick just got treated unfairly.<\/p>\n

But on this day, Goodell certainly deserves no thanks from Vick, as the commissioner did nothing compassionate or lenient or even proper. A man just spent two years in a federal penitentiary, but for Goodell \u2014 the commissioner of a sport in which a grown man runs around with a ball until someone else tackles him to the ground \u2014 doing real, hard time wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

Goodell had to show how tough he is by piling on, to remind everyone who wears the pads and makes the game what it is just who the real boss is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really do not know what else to say about this story. I am not here to argue the case for Vick being the same one man show he was before he was incarcerated, but I am here to set the record straight. Goodell just committed a travesty by suspending Vick.<\/p>\n

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