08-24-2007, 09:54 AM
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Vick's estranged father says QB has been fighting dogs for years
Friday, August 24, 2007 3:24 AM
By Matt Kempner
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA -- Michael Vick's father said he pushed his son to quit dogfighting years ago or, at least, put property used for the fights in the name of friends to avoid being implicated someday.
Michael Boddie, in two sometimes tearful interviews with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week, said some time around 2001 his son staged dogfights in the garage of the family's home in Newport News, Va. Boddie also said Vick kept fighting dogs in the family's back yard, including injured ones -- "bit up, chewed up, exhausted" -- that the father nursed back to health.
Boddie, who is estranged from his son, dismissed the idea that Vick's friends were the main instigators of the dogfighting operation. "I wish people would stop sugarcoating it," Boddie said. "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it."
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