Things not so Ookie for former Hokie

There's a litany of players who've been hounded by the law but escaped being bit by it.

There's OJ, Ray and Tank...oh, and of course, how could we forget, Adam Jones.

These guys received punishments from the law that probably agitated them about as much as an ear flick. Hell, OJ even tried to profit from the deaths of Nicole and Ron.

Pacman's long-term fate is yet to be determined.

Michael's in a similar position, but he may be in more trouble because he messed with one group you just don't wanna piss off: Animal Activists.

Now there's oodles of animadversion running across youtube and the blogosphere that's trying to chew up his career.



For real though, I read the 18-page indictment, and the accusations be laid on Vick -- whose name is mentioned approximately 50 times -- look troubling.

In the indictment Michael Vick -- whose alias is no longer Ron Mexico but the moniker his mother affectionayley gave him"Ookie" -- is basically charged with...

• Purchasing a $34,000 staging and training area in Smithfield, Va. -- which he and his boys called the "Bad Newz Kennels."
• Buying at least 25 American Pit Bull Terriers with the intent to have them fight once trained and tested for "fighting prowess."
  
• Training the pit bulls and making them participate in dog fighting competitions.
• Betting on the pits bulls for as much as $26,000 in various locations across the Atlantic Seaboard.

But the part of the indictment that may be the most troublesome for Vick is where it writes:

"Destroying or otherwise disposing of dogs not selected to stay with the ongoing animal fighting venture."

Later it states that Vick and his three boys -- P-Funk, Q and T -- executed dogs that didn't preform well by "hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground."

Some of the items found at the Bad Newz Kennel were "treadmills" that were used to condition the dogs and a "rape stand," used to strap down female pit bulls that were too aggressive to submit to male pit bulls for breeding.

All of this surely makes government attorneys salivate. They'll be caressing the violin and make the Atlanta Falcon look like a vulture.

In these dog days of summer, this heap of alleged evidence from the Grand Jury doesn't bode well for Vick.