Yesterday during a speech after pleading guilty in a Virginia Federal court to charges related to dog fighting, former Atlanta Falcon Quarterback Michael Vick aka Ron Mexico said that he'd found Jesus. What? Jesus? Well that's fine, I wish Michael luck with his new found Savior. But what I hope Michael found was some common sense as well. Common sense would have kept him out of this in the first place.
Why would a young man with potential earnings of more than 150 million dollars engage in a trifling activity like dog fighting? No common sense. And who was Michael hanging around with? So none of his "friends" said hey wait a minute Mike, maybe you shouldn't be involved in this, since you have so much to lose. Did his mother know? His dad is in the media now saying among other things that he warned his son to stop dog fighting. Wait a minute, Michael's dad says he warned him? Maybe he should have done a bit more than warn him. Maybe he should have said the dog fighting thing is over, done, forget about it. He should have said son you have too much to lose. But apparently he didn't (maybe because Michael hadn't coughed up the money he was asking for), and now it appears that all has been lost.
Anyway, it looks like instead of living the life of a millionaire, Michael Vick is probably going to jail. He may play football again or he may not. In the interim, Mr. Vick will be living the life of an inmate. And it all could so easily have been avoided.
And now that I think about it, it's a good thing that Michael Vick found Jesus, he's going to need Him in prison.
