NFL star gets dog-fight jail term

Basically Michael Vick plead guilty of all the charges in August. He ran an operation called Bad Newz Kennels and that was his dog fighting thing. He ran that from 2001 to April 2007. He started serving prison time three weeks ago in Virginia. He could have faced five years in prison but he apologized to the court and his family for his actions. The NFL suspended him indefinitly without pay. He signed a 10-year, $130m contract with the Atlanta Falcons in 2004. The team has now started legal proceedings against him to recover millions of dollars. While Vick was in court he said "I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions." The judge told him he should also apologise to the "millions of young people who look up to you". In his guilty plea, the quarterback admitted knowing that dogs that did not fight well were killed and that he had been involved in the killing of at least eight dogs. Prosecutors said dogs sometimes fought to the death and that underperforming animals were shot, drowned, hanged, electrocuted or killed by being slammed to the ground. Vick also admitted providing money for wagers on the fights but said he never shared any of the winnings. Since his guilty plea, Vick has paid more than $900,000 into a fund to pay for the care of the dogs rescued from his Virginia-based operation, the AFP reports.