Micheal Vick for Madden 2012 cover?!

EA you've gotta be kidding me. Of all the athletes from the entire NFL to choose from ,one of the possible canadates you come up with is Micheal Vick?

First of all let me go on to say yes I know this isn't a final descision and no I don't watch football or play any of the Madden sports games. But I do pay attention to the news and what's going on in the world and the only reason I even know of an athlete is either because they sell themselves out so much they wind up on every TV show ,commercial ,billboard ,website ,movie, and magazine. Or if they've committed a crime that's got the news' attention. Which happens quite a lot sadly enough.
But what Micheal Vick did wasn't just another gun or drug charge a lot of these dudes get slapped with ,no this sick muther fucker tortured and killed helpless dogs. Oh and this wasn't just some little hobby oh no. The bastard was involved with a whole operation and was making money off this horrible shit.

Now that I've brought you up to speed I think you all can understand when I say ,what in the holy hell is EA even thinking letting this sick asshole even be a canidate for the cover of what has mostly been a well known game in a main stream franchise?!
As it stands now Vick is currently one of the choices fans can vote for on ESPN's website. But really the fact he's even eligible is fucking horrible. Sure there are folks out there that say he's changes his ways ,served his time ,and paid his dues. Should he really still suffer redicule for what he did. In my honest opinion yes he should. Come to think of it I belive he got off the hook too easy. Micheal Vick is an unforgivable bastard and has no right to have the honor many greater athletes have had before him.

I feel I should also calirfy that I'm not some animal purest or anything. I eat meat ,I support wild game hunting ,fishing ,and experimentation on lab animals is perfectly fine. But I am a dog lover. I have a pet st. bernard/chocolate lab mix named Buster and I love him.

But anyway ,what are your thoughts on this folks?

Hasn't he already been on the cover of a Madden game?

I never really pay attention to the cover stars, I probably would have never noticed if I hadn't read this.

Is it wrong that the first thing I thought of was buying this game and placing it next to multiple copys of Nintendogs?

" Hasn't he already been on the cover of a Madden game? "

ok you do know he served a longer sentance then normal for said crime and he has gone on to change his ways and he served his time get over it.

He served his time, I'm fine with it.  Donte' Stallworth killed somebody and he's back  in the NFL, but no one made a big deal about that.  Anyone that thinks any animal's life is more important than a human has some priority issues.  By the way, Stallworth got one month in prison.  

I only care about who's on the cover of 2k11....

also I voted for peyton hillis out of the guys that are left

But he was already the target of the Madden curse, does EA want to kill him or something? 

theres 4 dudes left to vote for adrian peterson peyton hillis aaron rogers and mike vick dont like vick vont against him i voted for hillis and vick for the final 2

he was on the cover of madden 04

He did his time in jail.  Not like he got a slap on the wrist for it.   He's still a fairly an amazing athlete and one of the best players the NFL has right now.

" I only care about who's on the cover of 2k11.... "

Vick paid his due's. I think he has earned his chance. What he did was fucked. Totally fucked. But still, its pointless to put him in prison if we dont let he at least to redeem himself.

OJ or bust

I think your moral outrage is slightly misplaced.

America: Where celebrities aren't allowed any sort of forgiveness by the public.

It's because of this judgmental high-horse bullshit that we lost Gatorade Tiger.

I wanna say that the basketball games had convicted rapists on the cover but I don't pay attention to enough sports games to know.

" EA you've gotta be kidding me. Of all the athletes from the entire NFL to choose from ,one of the possible canadates you come up with is Micheal Vick?First of all let me go on to say yes I know this isn't a final descision and no I don't watch football or play any of the Madden sports games. But I do pay attention to the news and what's going on in the world and the only reason I even know of an athlete is either because they sell themselves out so much they wind up on every TV show ,commercial ,billboard ,website ,movie, and magazine. Or if they've committed a crime that's got the news' attention. Which happens quite a lot sadly enough. But what Micheal Vick did wasn't just another gun or drug charge a lot of these dudes get slapped with ,no this sick muther fucker tortured and killed helpless dogs. Oh and this wasn't just some little hobby oh no. The bastard was involved with a whole operation and was making money off this horrible shit.Now that I've brought you up to speed I think you all can understand when I say ,what in the holy hell is EA even thinking letting this sick asshole even be a canidate for the cover of what has mostly been a well known game in a main stream franchise?!As it stands now Vick is currently one of the choices fans can vote for on ESPN's website. But really the fact he's even eligible is fucking horrible. Sure there are folks out there that say he's changes his ways ,served his time ,and paid his dues. Should he really still suffer redicule for what he did. In my honest opinion yes he should. Come to think of it I belive he got off the hook too easy. Micheal Vick is an unforgivable bastard and has no right to have the honor many greater athletes have had before him.I feel I should also calirfy that I'm not some animal purest or anything. I eat meat ,I support wild game hunting ,fishing ,and experimentation on lab animals is perfectly fine. But I am a dog lover. I have a pet st. bernard/chocolate lab mix named Buster and I love him.But anyway ,what are your thoughts on this folks? "

I hate how people think that serving some time in jail makes up for him killing a bunch of innocent dogs.

Fuck Michael Vick.

Fuck everything about that douchebag being allowed to play in the NFL.

Yeah. Vick should have to be raped by thousands of dogs before being executed on national tv. *sarcasm*

I think there's more deserving players. This has nothing to do with the wrongdoing in Vick's past. While quite a standout player last season, he was hardly "the best". He had a few standout performances, most notably embarrassing the Giants, but looking at the the season as a whole, he was hardly worthy of runner up MVP of the league.  There was several standout players I'd put ahead of Mr. Vick. Whatever. Congrats to him on the cover.

I voted for Aaron Rodgers, but I don't have a problem with Michael Vick being on the cover. He served his sentence, and I believe in second chances.

" Get the fuck over it, you still see TIger Woods all over PGA don't you? It's a game about football, not about drama. "

At least he wasn't charged with not one, but two counts of murder and only got off because he testified against the 2 other people ala Ray Lewis 2004's cover athlete/criminal.

You know, I was going to type up a post about forgiving versus lionizing, but I realized after thinking about it that most of the complaints that I have to level against Vick and the way the public is treating him are hardly exclusive to him. 

But really, there are bigger things about the Madden series to get upset over than who's on the cover. 

You guys are funny, Michael Vick hasn't "gotten over" anything.  I live near Va Tech and when the dude still played there you got weekly news updates about him getting busted for carrying a gun, drunk in public, DUI's, and on and on.  The dude is a great athlete sure, but he is also a grade A scum bag who probably only regrets getting caught.

as people have said, there's notable players in the nfl that have actually killed human beings with no prison time, yet Vick gets all the heat. He's been a good citizen so far and generally sounds remorseful of his actions. He's an interesting redemption story that's also playing far better than when he was an overhyped average QB in Atlanta.

He has publicly apologized and served 2 years in jail.  For those of us who aren't perfect and often need redemption, he is quite a role model (which is why he is getting votes.)

@OP

...U mad?

He might be on the cover because he played amazingly last year, pretty simple

meh, o well. i don't think he should be on the cover but still.

I really don't care what Vick did nor do I care if he's on the cover of Madden. Part of the deal we've made with society is that if you go to jail you get to repay your debt to the world. Dude did his time as far as I'm concerned. But I'm probably in the minority here because I have a real tough time caring that much about Vick's crimes. It usually drives me crazy how people get so up in arms about animals while there are kids around the world either starving, being abused, or worse. That's usually the cause I get all huffy about. Either way, sports are boring so I don't watch them or play them in real life & video game form.

Vick served his time, what's the big deal.

" Is it wrong that the first thing I thought of was buying this game and placing it next to multiple copys of Nintendogs? "

I'm cool with it.

How epic would it be if Rodgers was on the cover doing the title belt pose?  Make it happen.

" He has publicly apologized and served 2 years in jail.  For those of us who aren't perfect and often need redemption, he is quite a role model (which is why he is getting votes.) "