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Thanks to Michael Wilbon in today’s Washington Post for getting it right about Michael Vick, his impending jail time, and how he might be able to play in the NFL again.

“If he says what arrogant athletes in trouble usually say, that this is behind him and it’s time to move on, his penitence will be insufficient. He’d better take the approach, and publicly, that his god isn’t finished with him yet and there’s a better man at the end of this regrettable process than at the beginning. Vick, clearly a man used to taking what he wants without fear of consequence, had better start begging quite literally for mercy and forgiveness. In public. Every chance he gets. We may be a forgiving culture, but only if people believe the sinner is genuinely contrite.”

Wilbon goes on to say that he doesn’t think Vick has it in him. He isn’t sorry he murdered dogs. He’s sorry he got caught. Two very different things.