Posted: 10:40 a.m. Monday, Aug. 17, 2009
Vick: 'I Cried So Many Nights;' One-Penny Italy Vacation; Obama May Drop Public Option
By Veronica Waters
- Michael Vick says he cried many nights in his
prison bunk, finally feeling guilty about quarterbacking the brutal dogfighting
ring that landed him behind bars at Leavenworth and bankrupt. He tells James
Brown on CBS' 60 Minutes (screen shot courtesy of CBS) that he now feels the same disgust that other people
did when the allegations surfaced--and blames no one but himself.
"Pure disgust," Vick said.
"When did you arrive at that feeling of disgust, Michael? When did the light go on?" asked Brown.
"When I was in prison," he replied. "I was disgusted because of what I let happen to those animals." The quarterback explained that he had first been introduced to dog fights when he was eight years old in Virginia, and remembers cops rolling by, seeing the crowd gathered, realizing it was a dog fight and getting back in the patrol car and driving way. In his mind, Vick said, that seemed to make it okay.
Brown asked Vick why he had cried in prison.
"What I did, being away from my family, letting so many people down, letting myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home," Vick said. "That wasn't my life. That wasn't the way that things were supposed to be. And all because of the so-called culture that I thought was right, and I thought it was cool and I thought it was fun and exciting. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself, with nobody to talk to but myself."
The experience changed him, Vick said. He recognized that
Vick spent an extra 20 minutes on the field after Eagles practice Sunday, trying to catch up on Philadelphia's offense and get back into playing shape. - President Barack Obama may be ready to ditch the
public option of health care reform, as Health and Human services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius says co-ops--like electric EMCs--could be a great
alternative. North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad has a plan under which nonprofit
co-ops would sell insurance. Conrad thinks the public option debate is wasting
effort, but that there are enough votes to pass the co-op idea.
- The mayor of Gary, Indiana is under fire for paying
$5,000 in travel expenses for Michael Jackson's father, his entourage and the
Chi-Lites to attend last month's memorial for the King of Pop. A neighborhood
leader is upset, noting that Gary had to suspend trash pickup for 11 days
because of budget problems--while Joe Jackson already has plenty of money.
- The city of Columbus is denied federal stimulus
cash of $5.5 million for the NCR Corporation facility slated to open this
October. NCR still plans to put its plant there, manufacturing ATMs and
establishing 870 new jobs in the area.
- The search resumes this morning for a north Georgia
woman who vanished nearly a week ago, moments after her boyfriend heard a
scuffle on the other end of the cell phone as she was walking near her parents'
home in Union County. 38-year-old Kristi Cornwell was heard yelling, "Don't take
me!" before she vanished.
- Five-time Pro Bowl linebacker Keith Brooking is
preparing for his first season with the Dallas Cowboys after spending his first
11 NFL seasons with Atlanta.
- Kind of like BestBuy.com's online goof last
week--but this time, this company is making good on a price mixup. As it turns
out, this will be the vacation deal of a lifetime. A romantic weekend at a
four-star hotel near Venice, Italy, for just one penny. The mistake was made at
the Atlanta offices of Intercontinental Hotels Group. But a company spokeswoman
says the chain will honor the 1-cent offer to the nearly 230 patrons who booked
reservations before the mistake was discovered. The Crowne Plaza hotel stands
to lose nearly $130,000 because of what's termed a human error. BestBuy.com
last week opted not to honor the mistake when a 52" flat-screen TV was posted
for sale online at $9.99.
- The Florida Panhandle is drenched this morning, as
Tropical Storm Claudette makes landfall near Fort Walton Beach. No major
flooding or winds are expected, but metro Atlanta could feel some of the outer
bands affecting the local weather the next couple of days. Hurricane Bill is
now the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: scattered showers, highs in the mid-80s, lows in the 60s overnight.
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