Establishing a New Criteria for Michael Vick Posts

by Stan, Ghosts of Wayne Fontes

It's long overdue to come up with a new set of guidelines and/or rules about posting on Michael Vick. It seems, I can't go a single day without hearing the same Michael Vick joke or reading the same Michael Vick post I read the day before. Look, it was funny the first time around. In fact, the whole Michael Vick "posting" issue became a topic of debate on a spamming email that many around the blogosphere couldn't seem to unsubscribe or remove fast enough last weekend.

Do a google "blog" search on Vick and there is something new every single day. Check your email and you might be spammed again with another Michael Vick topic. I'm probably just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to "beating the dead horse" on a specific post topic, but today I'm imploring bloggers to unite in one common cause. And that is to just leave Michael Vick alone.

I'm not saying I'm innocent, but I'm saying it's time we draw a line in the sand. Vick is an easy topic, an easy whipping post, but at what point is enough simply enough? The whole Vick saga is beyond saturated all over blogs, the MSM and sports talk radio. It's going to take a collective effort to put the gauntlet down on this topic.

Yeah, I realize I may be ruffling a few feathers here, but it's not my intent. Remember a few years back getting those "Chuck Norris created the universe" email lists? Well, if you didn't (my apologies) anyhow, the trend to mock Chuck Norris became so over rampant that I must've gotten a new Chuck Norris "did this" link ever single day. And essentially the joke (which initially was highly comical) became immensely stale.

Yup, every joke plays it course and that's just the nature of the business. Does anybody else not see that Vick has hit that point? We get it...Vick is an intriguing story. Yet, can't we shift the topic to Brady Quinn...whoops...we've already beaten that one as well. Consider my site (The Ghosts) dually guilty on both accounts.

I can't say it hasn't been fun to poke fun at Ron Mexico, Bad Newz Kennels, Marcus and what not, but I am committed from here on out to move forward...who's with me? Long and short and to end the vent, let's all agree to agree on leaving Vick out of our daily references. Besides, it's time to move on and share the mocks with Joey Harrington...right? Well, maybe I'm in the minority, but that's just my opinion on the topic.

All good things end in time. Goodbye Mike.