Not much of a presidential campaign angle here, other than John Kerry weighed in early on this… looks like Michael Vick has pled guilty. Details haven’t been released, but reportedly he’s looking at a year in jail.

You know who I feel bad for today? Atlanta Falcons fans. No, really. I know what it’s like to root for a team with a level of die-hard enthusiasm that makes normal people question your sanity. Now the franchise has been set back tremendously because they staked their future on a young man who preferred to spend the off-season… dog-fighting. Not only has their hero revealed himself to be a supremely twisted individual, but it will be a long time before the team’s image is separated from this awful, nightmarish scandal.

I can almost understand the guys who get in trouble with drugs, who get in trouble with booze, who get into fights in bars, or who run around with women. Young men, enormous amounts of money and fame, and little accountability is a formula for trouble. But the Falcons organization bet big on a man who preferred to blow off steam in the most socially unacceptable manner possible, one that makes the “usual” scandals look small-time.

If Michael Vick had been running Fight Clubs in his basement, even that wouldn’t have spurred this level of outrage, from the argument that at least human fighters have a choice in what they do.