$16 Million Will Buy A Lot Of Dog Food

A judge ruled this week that incarcerated quarterback Mike Vick can keep the lion’s share of his $20 million in bonus money, awarding just $3.75 million to the Atlanta Falcons in an arbitration hearing. Chalk up a victory for the little guy.

I mean just because Vick is spending the next 23 months in federal prison for running a dog fighting operation and can’t be on the field competing for the team that paid him all those millions, that doesn’t mean he has to give that money back. Once they hand over the check, it is gone, baby, gone. Or in the words of NFL Players Association general counsel Richard Berthelsen, “It’s an enforcement of something that we felt we negotiated in the 2006 extension of the collective bargaining agreement.”

See this is why we need to have unions, to protect people who like to gamble on dog fighting and who torture and kill dogs that don’t win their fights from being abused by The Man. Thank goodness the NFLPA worked hard for that “sentenced to federal prison for dog fighting” exemption in the CBA.

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