People who work and volunteer for the humane animal organizations all over the country spay and neuter their own personal pets.The problem is the majority of Americans don't spay and neuter their pets plus they let them run loose . And there are always those people who think every female pet is longing to be a mother or they just think that puppies and kittens are so cute. Then there are the Americans who buy the cute pets and then dump them about 3 months later because they are no longer cute.Plus we have all the breeders in America who are trying to make money off of animals. Ours is a throw away society and not one to sponsor long term care facilities for pets.Actually the long term care facilities for the elderly in America are disgusting so why would long term care for animals be any better or even be provided? So the animal organizations are literally overwhelmed with the rest of America's cast off pets. If left to run the streets starving and abused by people like Michael Vick , then they really are better off put to sleep by euthaniasia. Being starved,hung, drowned , thrown to the ground, or set on fire ,or bagged as bait, is a true lack of compassion and is totally the wrong way to eliminate pets or animals who were adopted by people who dumped them or just got tired of them. Most of those who work in the animal organizations all over the United States are of a higher conciousness and would not willingly harm an animal. There are veterinarians who donate their time for surgery and post op care. Many people volunteer countless hours without pay. Wealthy individuals as well as working people donate money to the organizations. Unfortunately it's difficult to keep up with the number of animals who are bred and then dumped. So when you point your index finger at all the people who work and volunteer for the nation's animal organizations then turn your finger around and point it at yourself and the rest of Americans lacking concern for animals and nature.

You fail to mention exactly WHO is behind the vilification of pit bulls across this nation. Dirtbags like Michael Vick who train these dogs to be killers. A pit bull is a strong dog, but not any more likely to be a killer than any other dog that is starved, tortured, drugged and abused in an effort to teach this dog to FIGHT. A pit bull is a loving, loyal dog, and will do ANYTHING to please their master once they understand what their master expects of them. For sick individuals like Michael Vick to exploit these innocent dogs love and loyalty in this fashion is beyond comprehension. Let's vilify the true culprit when dogs attack, the dog's OWNERS. And friend, Michael Vick qualifies.

You cannot compare a humane euthanization to starving, drugging, abusing, torturing, fighting, hanging, drowning and electrocuting dogs. In your attempt to do so, you only come off looking like a callous idiot, that chooses to defend a monster and blame the innocent animals. That simple. There is absolutely NO excuse for Michael Vick's actions, NONE.

What Belechik did was wrong, and definitely worthy of more punishment than what he recieved. But comparing this to torturing, fighting and killing dogs is ludicrous. Sorry, but your attempt to trivialize what Michael Vick has been doing for the past six years, torturing and killing dogs for his ENTERTAINMENT is simply disgusting. He should pay the highest penalty possible, and being banned from the NFL forever is certainly called for.

Other athletes ties to murder etc happened long before Goodell, and it is Vick's misfortune that his blood thirsty participation in the heinous blood sport of dog fighting was exposed under the leadership of Goodell. And btw, when is the last time you heard of a defense attorney defending his client with this defense: Oh but your honor, other people have done things far worse! Right.

No one wants to sit down to enjoy a Sunday football game, and look into the face of a monster than makes them think of drowned,hung, bled to death, electrocuted dead puppies.

And you should check your facts when you choose to justify his behavior because of the fact he utilized pit bulls in his sick demented hobby. Dog fighting rings steal dogs out of citizen's back yards, to be used as 'bait' dogs. They starve a pit bull before a scheduled fight, then just before a fight they throw a stolen pet in the cage with the starved drugged pit bull who is likely to have had his teeth filed down in order to shred an opponent. Throwing this pet in the cage with the starved drugged pit bull serves to give the dog the 'taste for blood' . If this doesn't curdle YOUR blood, then nothing will.

Well at least the PETA crowd is well represented here...

I'm about ready to barf from the sight of these Jew hating PETA types lecturing others about making comparisons. These are the same a**holes who advertise pictures of stacked dead Jews at Treblinka next to cows and chickens and say they are the same thing.

Keep those stickers on your cars. I appreciate the help. See ya soon.

I would assume that Belichick - and the other NFL coaches - will continue to cheat, they'll just be more subtle and devious about it.

As for Vick, he comes across as a thug, albeit a well-paid one, much like a substantial percentage of the NFL. If it weren't for the dollars that chase pro sports most of these guys would be working in a carwash somewhere, or as an enforcer for some drug dealer.

Could it be that frustration with the thuggery of NFL players in general manifested itself in the more severe penalty dealt to Vick?

Hmmm. Since when is picking off signals illegal or cheating? If I were an owner, I'd expect my guys to try and figure out the other team's signals. Anyone out there ever played baseball? Why is this any different?

This wasn't watching the other coach and trying to learn the signals, it was videotaping them for later review. There is a specific rule against that, and Belechick blatantly broke it.

Also, it's claimed that Belechick had bugs planted on opposing players and coaches.