Is Mike Vick, the highest paid NFL player, going to jail?!

Is one of the NFL's bad boys (but this is the first REAL proven trouble he's been in) jail/prison bound? It looks like a screaming YES as the story breaks that the highest paid NFL athlete faces jail time of 1 to 5, they are reporting most likely 1 1/2 years for his racketeering (starting off with dog fighting charges) felony conviction and also faces NFL suspension.

He decidedly lied to the commissioner originally and now has admitted that he is guilty of the charges brought against him. The Atlanta favorite goes into court again next Monday to plead before the judge. He will have to serve 87% of whatever sentence he's given, part in a jail setting and the other in a half way house setting according to ESPN NEWS. We will probably find out what type/length of sentence he gets by November. Apparently as of late the athlete didn't feel that he would be able to get off on this case by going to trial so he went for a hopefully lighter sentence by pleading and avoiding the likely conviction. It is said Per the plea and indictment that Vick is the one that founded and funded the Dog ring despite reports that Mike Vick loved animals and had horses, birds, etc. and would never hurt them by his confident defense team lead by attorney Danny Meachum (Billy Martin is also a lead attorney to the 5 team defense for MV) on Friday afternoon while speaking with Radio DJ Ryan Cameron on the popular Atlanta radio station v103. Meachum also said that there was no plea and that they were not rushing toward one as was expected last Friday. We see however how unpredictable such cases can be with this new and inevitable turn of events that has taken place. Vick may miss 2 to 3 seasons in cause of this case and he seems to stand alone from his partners in the league and certainly against a media who has been trying to find him guilty for different situations for years! I just don't think he realized how serious and damaging this case was to his freedom from jump OR he just simply thought that he could gut this one out with a win. Mike Vick says he's guilty and since that's the case, yes he's wrong for his actions and needs to let justice play out. Money can not always take away responsibility(look at the recent Paris Hilton drunk driving jail case). However I must also say this...I do feel that Vick has had a driving force of haters after him for years in order to throw dirt on his name. His endorsements dropped almost as soon as the case began and that seemed fair-weather and unfair since he had not pleaded or wasn't proven guilty at that time. Some are saying it is a black thing, others are saying it is a Vick thing. I'm still deciding on that part myself. I am very concerned for the Atlanta Falcons as a football team. The city does not have any large star following power in sports, and Vick was the rare exception. Fans will come out to see him play. Without Vick there may be no strong Falcons team or following and ticket sales will drop guaranteed! There had been on and off talk and speculation of the football star being traded in the coming years anyway so i suppose loosing him now is like an early piece of the future of the Falcons without Vick. The future of the team looks grim at this point. They didn't play so well last season WITH the amazing talents of the Q-back so sans him...you better cross those hands up to the sky if you care about this team.

1. Will Mike Vick play again?
2. Did he get what he deserved by lying?
3. Did he plead guilty because he felt he had no other way out or because he really did found and fund the Dog ring?
4. Did Vick not take this serious enough from the start of the charges against him?
5. Do the Falcons have hope without Vick & would you still go to games?
6. Do you think they are picking on him or that it is race based?

Say it and spray it!

The Maven/Miesha