It has oft been noted, you can pick your nose (though I hope you don’t), you can pick your friends (which Michael Vick did, with questionable results), but you can’t pick your family. Boy can Mike attest to that, right about now.
In an article in today’s edition of USA Today, Michael Boddie, Vick’s estranged father, goes on record as saying he told his son to stop dogfighting years ago, and further urges people to stop sugarcoating it. He maintains Vick has a history of dogfighting, going all the way back to when he lived at home with him, where he alleges Vick staged dogfights in his garage and back yard. In perhaps the coup de grace, Boddie claims, “this is Mike’s thing, and he knows it.” Ouch!
Alas, in the Vick-Boddie Family version of the elusive answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx, Boddie told USA Today he’s singing because he’s been hurt by what he termed inaccurate reports that Vick grew up without his father present. “I’ve been drug through the mud,” he said.
Well, there we have it, Family Feud, the Michael Vick pile on version, or as Kool Moe Dee might have said, “How Ya Like Me Now?” Indeed, there have been a number of unfortunate developments in this saga. It is difficult to imagine any sadder than this…to date anyway.
Peace!
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/falcons/2007-08-23-vick-thursday_N.htm
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