Almost 17 years after NFL player Michael Vick was exposed for running a massive dogfighting ring, he is once again speaking out about the moment when his life would change forever.
He would speak on dogfighting ring during the latest episode of Tyreek Hill’s podcast, It Needed To Be Said.
While reflecting on the situation to the Miami Dolphins WR, Vick expressed one important piece of regret. “I wish I had a father figure or somebody in my life — and I did, too, for the most part — but not to the point where somebody was like, ‘Yo, man, you can really screw all this up,’” Vick said. “Ain’t nobody came and said, ‘Bro, you can screw all this up.’ One person [did], I won’t say his name.”
The younger version of himself actually thought he would step back into his old role with the Falcons after getting out prison.
“The whole time like I was gone I thought they was gonna wait on me, but that was wishful thinking,” Vick said. “Like, I really thought like they was gonna wait for me to get back and all this would be over and then I step back in, be the starter, and we just move on like nothing ever happened. But that’s not reality. And I was hoping for something that just couldn’t happen.”
Vick was one of the most dynamic athletes of the 2000s and has one of the most interesting careers in the history of the league.
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Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a state dogfighting charge in 2008 where he received a three-year suspended sentence, which was far less than the maximum of 10 years he could have faced. It was a shocking moment for a man who once signed a 10-year, $130 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons.
The league suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in Virginia.
In May 2009, he was released after serving 19 months in prison.
He would go on to sign a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. Every step of the way he had protestors after him because of his actions. Even to this day, Vick still catches hell for what he did, but it has not deterred him from being a better person.
Vick played in Atlanta from 2001-06 before his conviction. And later, he did return to the NFL, from 2009-15 as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.
