Vick's dad says son enjoys dogfighting
'I wish people would stop sugarcoating his involvement.'

Friday, August 24, 2007
Falcons: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 some day.

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.