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Editorial | Michael VickApology seems truly remorseful
As public apologies go, Michael Vick's plea for forgiveness yesterday was convincing.
The disgraced NFL star, who pleaded guilty in federal court to a dogfighting charge, afterward looked and sounded like a man filled with remorse. He apologized to the NFL, to his team, to kids who idolized him.
"I'm totally responsible," Vick said. "Now I have to pay the consequences for it.
"Dogfighting is a terrible thing," he said.
What Vick did was reprehensible. He admitted helping to run a dogfighting and gambling operation on property he owned in Virginia, including killing several pit bulls that failed to perform in the ring.
The NFL has suspended him without pay indefinitely, a punishment he fully deserves.
The Atlanta Falcons could try to recover $22 million of Vick's bonus from the $130-million contract he signed in 2004. Then there are the endorsements he has lost, and a possible jail term to be meted out by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in December.
Few athletes in their prime have thrown away so much fame and fortune on a cruel, twisted form of "entertainment."
But to his credit, the contrite Vick at least seems to understand this lesson. Much of his apology was directed at children.
"What I did was very immature, so that means I need to grow up," Vick said. "And if I'm more disappointed with myself than anything, it's because of all the . . . young kids that I've let down, who look at Michael Vick as a role model. . . . I hope that every young kid out there in the world watching this interview right now, who's been following the case, will use me as an example to using better judgment and making better decisions."
He didn't talk about returning to football someday, but about working to become a better person. "I will redeem myself, I have to," said Vick.
He sounded like someone who expects to serve time in jail. But if there is a road back for him, his apology yesterday was the right way to begin that journey.