Originally Posted by pan6467

Has a lot to do with the NFL. Teams are basically subsidiaries to the League. The teams while independantly owned also rely on the Commissioner's office for fairness, carrying out punishments, keeping the name clean, advertising the league as a whole, etc etc. The NFL has every right to punish and needs to punish.

The problem is if Atl. decides to cut Vick, a team that only cares about winning may pick him up and still damage the league's reputation.

If the NFL does nothing, then I know a lot of people who will boycott games. These people are Cleveland and Cincy fans.... The perception is if the NFL doesn't do anything they are in fact endorsing it.

Same as how the League and Commissioner suspend guys who pop on their piss tests, get caught at parties shooting, driving drunk, etc.

Now I do have this question............ If Vick were a white QB (say Roethlisburger, Manning, Favre even..... would they have already done something, would the team have cut him and the NFL suspended him already?

I just ask, because I have been hearing the race card played and whispered about and am curious what others think.