MIKE VICK FANS MORE WORRIED ABOUT SEEING HIM PLAY: Are supporters of Michael Vick rallying around a man who has been treated unfairly by a biased system? Or do they just want their fantasy football teams back on track?
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It’s a case of the latter, so says Terence Moore of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, as he pens about the fanatical following the former Falcons QB has fermented.
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.
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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.
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“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 becoming a Flying Wallenda near a pylon. They are angry they can’t see goose bumps rising on their arms anymore with just the thought of Vick sauntering from the huddle.”
Moore futher states the issue is really not one of black and white, but of red (zones) and green (cash). Yet, Vick fans are still buying into their own hype:
“Vick apologists are perpetrating a fraud with their selfishness, and many of them don’t even know it.”
