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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be Michael Vick? Well, today is your lucky day. The debut of “The Michael Vick Project”, a 10-part docu-series, airs tonight at 10 p.m. on BET.
The program will focus on his fall from grace, his time in prison, and his road back to some measure of respectability. (Or at least a life in which he gets to practice his trade free of criticism.)
“I’m on a mission to get everything back – not the money and the fame, but to restore my family’s good name,” Vick himself says of the show. Only time will only tell if that is an achievable goal or not.
Early in the premiere, Vick, who spent 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to being involved with a dog-fighting ring, says, “My fall from grace was tragic, but it’s all my fault.” He goes on to explain how events and factors in his childhood may have hardened him, mainly the absence of his father and his mother having to raise him in a bad neighborhood. He has vivid memories of watching older kids sic their pit bulls on cats or other dogs. Footage of the compound in Virginia where they would train and breed fighting dogs is eerie, but they do skip over footage of the horrible things that took place there.
For Vick, one of the reasons to do the show was to try to put the issue behind him. As a result, the show won’t have a second season. ”I think this closes it out for me. Let it be serious. Let it be real, so I don’t have to answer the question anymore. I know people who don’t like me won’t watch it,” he went on to say.
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