Tobacco Road
Another person seeking to escape the consequences of disgrace is Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. The suggestion which shouldn't be allowed is that anything which a certain number of people accept, is alright and can't be judged. Michael Vick commands a number of marketable abilities, and commands by this a further ability to make a enormous amount of money, through shoe contracts and being a franchise player in the NFL. He leverages this ability against censure. Or rather he did; behind this now circulates doubt
NFL to Vick: Stay away from camp | ajc.com. Sustained success depends on intangibles, particularly leadership. Jeff Shultz writing for the Atlanta Journal Constitution quotes Vince Lombardi: "Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough," Lombardi said. "The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."
Jeff Schultz: Has Vick lost his ability to lead? | Sports Columnists | ajc.com
A courser way of looking at this is to observe that marketability is grounded on results. Vick is working hard to remind people of other promising athletes that never showed results
Vick Ordered by Goodell To Stay Away From Camp - washingtonpost.com. Dog fighting is as Senator Byrd terms it a barbaric practice. Senator Byrd became quite exercised on this on the floor of the Senate the other day
Byrd on Michael Vick: Going to Hell - Capitol Briefing. It is unnecessary cruelty. Cruelty to animals, raise doubts among us that are older than peta. They are older than modern ideas against cruelty to children, in the form of child labor laws, which largely followed the regulation of animal treatment. Dog fighting is the deliberate maiming and tormenting of another living creature. For sportm for entertainment. Torturing and killing them if they are not suitably amusing. Breeding hostility and aggression into these animals to such an extent that they are breed under forced conditions
What kind of dogfighting equipment did they find on Michael Vick's property? - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine. A hostility of their nature they never would come to without human agency. More humiliating for us that dogs are a creature we can work with so familiarly, because we domesticated them and joined their destiny with ours. All this is underscored by the very real criminal penalties that lie within this indictment: up to six years in jail and $350,000 in fines
NFL suspends Vick after dog-fighting charges | Breaking news | Guardian Unlimited Sport. There is a type of wealthy that will always do what they want, they have their own rules. And while their wealth orders the world (or disorders it) and sets the contours of our existence, they keep their affairs and their enthusiasms to themselves. They live in fragile alliance with each other and the politically powerful, as separate as they can manage from us. The trend setting pop powerful; members of a second celebrated rank of the wealthy or famous, live in our world. They seek consciously or unconsciously to normalize their enthusiasms. Even as they sometimes should be curbed. Sally Jenkins speculates on Vick's need to show he still remembered his own tobacco road, summed up in the incantation: Keeping it real. She doubts there is anything real to idealizing nostalgia in the life of capricious celebrity
Sally Jenkins - Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Vick - washingtonpost.com. Vick's apparent dabbling in the shadowy world of dog fighting points to a need for subculture. To the role of subculture against primary culture. This is subculture understood simply as any culture that exists in counterpoint to the dominant culture. There are those who will who respond to blood-sport like dogfighting all the more for the existence of others who will make it seem glamorous. They seek the mystique of subculture, The mystery cult of celebrity. This in return increases the marketability of individual ability intermixed with transgressing persona.
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