other individuals were involved in this illegal and vicious and barbaric dog fighting ring and he served his time and at the end of the time, nearly two years with his time at leavenworth and then home confinement, he said he wanted to help us with the larger dog fighting problem. i was skeptical but i thought about it and i said, what s the biggest problem we face? it s street fighting. young kids, like michael vick when he start when he was 7 or 8 years old dog fighting in newport news, getting pit bulls for the wrong reasons and squaring them up in alleys and abandoned buildings and fighting them so we said to vick we ll work with you if you put boots on the ground and speak to thousands of kids in communities across the country to warn them away from this horrible problem of dog fighting. he s met ever everything asked. every quest. he s done two events a month and he s been doing a very good job. you run the organization. has this been a unanimous feeling in your organization?
you ve been very involved with this from the beginning urging state and federal authorities to prosecute michael vick and you talked specifically about this at the time that he was found to be dog fighting. you urged the atlanta falcons to drop him and the nfl to suspend him. why do you support him now? well, like you said, sanjay, what he did was terrible. he needed to face the consequences of this awful crime. bad news can kennels he and other individuals were involved in this illegal and vicious and barbaric dog fighting ring and he served his time and at the end of the time, nearly two years with his time at leavenworth and then home confinement, he said he wanted to help us with the larger dog fighting problem. i was skeptical but i thought about it and i said, what s the biggest problem we face? it s street fighting. young kids, like michael vick when he start when he was 7 or 8 years old dog fighting in newport news, getting pit bulls for the wrong reasons and squaring them
household and show i genuinely care. ladies and gentlemen, hide your pets. this is the same michael vick who spent 18 months in prison for his role in a dog fighting ring and other disgusting thing he did to dogs. richard, is he even allowed to have a dog? well, you know, part of his sentence for one more year, he cannot have a dog. so the only dog he can hang out with during the next year is snoop dogg. but i assure you, drew, in one year we will be covering michael vick, who right now is the number one vote getter in the nfl for the pro bowl for any position, number one, and loved by philadelphia, we will be covering his story with his new dog. we ll be discussing how he s holding his new dog on tv. one more year he ll have a dog. i m 100% with you. it s a double standard. as long as he wins, he can do whatever he wants, avery. you know, bernie madoff
therapeutic and motivational. we ll see if it helps when they take on the miami dolphins this sunday. call him the comeback kid. less than two years after being released from prison without a dollar to his name, michael vick is the most popular player in the nfl. he s leading the league in fan balloting by 40,000 votes. he was reinstateed to the nfl just last year after serving a 19 month federal prison sentence for running a vicious dog fighting ring. hey, guys, how about that? good luck. back to you re a senior. when you graduate, you ll come back here and do sports, right? exactly. great stuff. all right. where are we? going to send it back to steve and gretch. that s right. thank you very much. very nicely done. all right. straight ahead, members of the liberal left are intensifying their attacks. this time comparing groups that promote traditional family values to radicals like skinheads and the kkk and wait until you hear their
football is so much a part of thanksgiving. so it s a good time for to us bring you the redemption story of the nfl season so far. the story of eagles qb michael vick, who s gone from pariah to possibly the league s best player. bob woodruff reports. reporter: michael vick is having the best football season of his life. perhaps the next mvp. maybe a super bowl ring. but it s a long way from where he was just three years ago. a convicted felon. i m a totally different person now. in 2007, i didn t believe in things that i was doing was wrong. you didn t at all? not at all. michael, how you feeling? reporter: what vick was doing in 2007 was running a dog-fighting ring. he was convicted for training dogs in death matches and then killing those who underperformed. he was imprisoned for 19 months. sack number 7! reporter: one of the most-reviled individuals in america. you said, my life was a lie.