Michael Vick may have hit rock bottom last week after he admitted to his part in a brutal dogfighting ring, his own father ratted him out and the NFL suspended him indefinitely. But the disgraced Atlanta Falcons star - who kept dogfighting paraphernalia like "rape stands" and "breaksticks" in his country home - still has his mother fighting for him.
"I gotta be strong for him," Brenda Vick sobbed, standing outside the handsome brick mansion her son bought for her in Suffolk, Va. "It is tough on everybody. They are trying to put my baby in jail, and for what?"
"Everybody makes mistakes," she continued, only hours after her son filed his guilty plea Friday. "Everybody deserves a second chance. He has given his life over to God. He is not a criminal . . . He's a good person. He has a big heart, and it just hurts."
The most influential woman in the disgraced gridiron great's life vigorously defended him in an exclusive interview with The Post. In her first public words of support for her embattled child,
she also accused her estranged husband of lying about their son and trying to extort money from him to support his drug habit. LOVING MOM: VICK'S MY DAWG | By JAMES FANELLI, Post Correspondent | National News | US News | Current National News
08-26-2007, 02:05 PM
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