vick on "60 minutes"

about to start. billed as his "first interview since prison." is this really still true after his presser in philly? and how pissed must the suits at cbs be that the signing/presser happened before james brown's "get?" ??? ??? ???

 

wow what a complete shock. 60 minutes of deception.
no it is not his first interview since prison. not at all.
but it's 60 minutes. the other interviews don't count.

 

"I could have stopped it. I could have shut the whole thing down."

Uh, Mike... how 'bout not starting it in the first place? Tool.

 

If he did the interview before the presser, it's still his first.

 

He was misled by people who sold him out to take him down.

Wonder when we get to the part about the guys holding guns to his head and forcing him to torture and slaughter the dogs?

 

He did the interview before the signing was announced.

 

Not a good showing by Vick. He either wasn't prepped well enough or he just doesn't get it (maybe both).

 

yeah, i get that the interview was conducted before he signed. still disingenuous to me to hype it that way when we've heard from vick in the interim, though.

also, shows how outdated "60 minutes" is that they still hold such a "get" until sunday, risking, exactly what happened. in the best sense of "journalism," the interview should have appeared in two parts on the "cbs nightly news," allowing that cbs has no other forum in which to air the entire thing.

methinks the wind was taken from the net's sails when he signed and did a q-and-a before the air date.

 

Yep. That part made me think he was full of shit.

 

So Vick didn't seem remorseful in the CBS interview?

Judging from the clips, I thought he handled himself fairly well at Friday's press conference.

 

It sounded like everyone got what they wanted James Brown and CBS the get, and a chance to "hold him to account;" Vick gets the microphone for his public apology, the PR people get a nice check, but I didn't think the viewer learned much. He's sorry, okay. It was wrong. Fine.
I was more interested in what his time in prison was like, how he went from NFL stud to Inmate No. 198019. What are his relationships like now with the people he ran the kennel with. Has he ever had a dog he didn't fight?
Speaking to kids isn't going to get it done. Vick needs to find the people who are still fighting dogs and reach them.