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Titans' first-round draft pick, Michael Griffin raises pit bulls.
And for some of us, that raises a red flag.
Not to worry. Griffin breeds pit bulls for fun. He enters them in dog shows and has won eight prizes.
Griffin embraces the opportunity "to change people's perception" of pit bulls.
"They're great dogs," he says. "It all depends on how you raise them and how you handle them."
These days, the issue of pit bulls is front and center as it relates to one of the NFL's most marketable players, Falcons star Michael Vick.
On April 25, authorities raided a house in Surry County, Va., that is owned by Vick. There, they found 66 dogs, most of them pit bulls, a dog fighting pit, blood-stained carpets and equipment associated with dog fighting.
Hot-button topic
Vick was not at the scene and has denied knowledge of dog fighting. He said he let a cousin, Davon Boddie, live at the house and seldom visited.
Vick has not been charged. However, the investigation is ongoing, with NFL Security offering to help in the probe.
The story isn't going away. ESPN's Outside the Lines has an anonymous source who says his dog once fought Vick's dog. The source referred to Vick as "a pit bull fighter" and "one of the heavyweights" who wagers thousands of dollars at dog fights.
This is a potential nightmare for the NFL. Dog fighting does not fare very well in the court of public opinion. I'm guessing that the majority of those who watch NFL games on TV are pet owners.
Some animal-rights advocates believe there is a subculture of dog fighting involving professional athletes. Thus far, no such link has been found.
As low as it gets
Not everyone gets it. Redskins running back Clinton Portis shrugged off news of a possible link between Vick and dog fighting.
"I don't know if he was fighting dogs or not, but it's his property. It's his dog," Portis said in an interview. "If that's what he wants to do, do it."
Recognizing the impending backlash, the Redskins PR machine dashed off not one but two statements in an attempt at damage control.
Personally, I can't think of many things more reprehensible than dog fighting. Maybe it's because we always had dogs when I was growing up. And a boyhood reading of a particularly explicit account of a dog fight in a Jack London book — either White Fang or Call of the Wild — left a mark on my psyche.
Anyway, the thought of dogs being trained to fight and then unleashed on one another in a pen while people watch and wager is more than I can stomach. For me, those that participate in this are about as low as you go.
And if the NFL discovers that one of its own is involved in such a despicable — and illegal — activity, Commissioner Roger Goodell must bare his teeth.

NFL can't condone dog fights - Nashville, Tennessee - Monday, 05/28/07 - Tennessean.com