When a big celebrity is involved in some crisis for all the world to see the first outcome is usually an ABC Movie of the Week. But how do you set up the narrative and take an audience inside the seamy underbelly of dog fighting? You can't. It just ain't happening.
Think about it: what if Vick killed somebody? Or turned out to be a major drug dealer? Or was into child pornography? Could they make a TV movie out of those subjects? Oh, hell yeah they could! But not dogfighting, the action is utterly repellant and there are no good guys, no heroes. Everyone is a villain and the victims are the dogs, not much room for a sappy love story in there. When you're too taboo for network prurience then you're out there on an island all by yourself. Good god, even R. Kelly is back in the mainstream! And Kobe Bryant, Martha Stewart, Marv Albert, Henry Blodgett, Dick Morris, Ray Lewis, etc.
And at this point even if he's completely cleared--even if this is all some crazy witchhunt and he gets out of it 100% innocent!--he's never going to be the star he was. This is Fatty Arbuckle territory here.
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