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The Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation began in April 2007 with a search of property in Surry County, Virginia, owned by Michael Vick, who was at the time quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons football team, and the subsequent discovery of evidence of a dog fighting ring.
July 19 - U.S. Senator and Senate president pro tempore Robert Byrd, 89, (D-West Virginia), a well-known dog lover, gave a passionate speech in the U.S. Senate about the practice of dog fighting in response to the Vick indictment. Dog fighting is a brutal, sadistic event motivated by barbarism of the worst sort and cruelty of the worst, worst ...
Michael Dwayne Vick (born June 26, 1980) is an American college football coach and former player who is the head football coach at Norfolk State University.He played quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, where he became the league's first quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards in a season and was the all-time leader in quarterback rushing yards at the time of his ...
After a celebrated two-year collegiate career at Virginia Tech, Vick was drafted No. 1 overall by the Atlanta Falcons in 2001 and was a superstar in the NFL until the dog fighting conviction ...
Michael Vick speaks to reporters in 2007 after agreeing to a guilty plea on charges from his involvement in a dogfighting ring. (Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images) (Jonathan Ernst via Getty Images)
The Michael Vick case. Dog fighting has been around for millennia. However, most Americans likely knew little about the sport when it catapulted into public view in 2007.
On April 25, 2007, an investigation began in Virginia after evidence of a dog fighting ring turned up during a narcotics search of a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) home and property owned by Michael Vick, a professional football player with the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL and a dog breeder.
In the midst of a 23-month prison sentence on dog-fighting charges, former Atlanta Falcons star quarterback Michael Vick has filed for bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy filing says that Vick ...