Michael Vick should let sleeping dogs lie

Get your TiVos ready. Set a recording on your DVR. Hell, dust off your VCR and get ready to record because you're not going to want to miss this.
Starting February 2nd Michael Vick will be telling his story about the dogfighting ring that sent him to prison for 18 months. According to Vick, this 10-part series on BET titled "The Michael Vick Project" shows the real story of his life, from his rise to the top of the NFL to his arduous fall and his struggle to find redemption. The series is shot on the grounds in Surry County, VA where his dogfighting crimes were committed.
This might not be the best move for the former #1 overall pick. I can only assume that this series is meant to garner support and sympathy for Vick, showing how he is a changed man and that he wants to make amends for his past. Instead, the docu-series may do the exact opposite.
In the first episode he discusses how he ran "Bad Newz Kennels" while he was making the Pro Bowl and signing a 10-year, $130 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons. He also talks about how he was exposed to dogfighting as a child and how quickly he became enamored with it.
In an interview with the AP he said that walking over the burial spots of some the dogs that were killed was the moment he "really realized all the wrong that I did". Now, I don't claim to be a smart man but I would think that thought would have sunk in at some point during his 18-months in prison. But that's just me.
Vick says that he believed money would buy him out of the legal trouble when he was charged in 2007 and says that he wanted to put an end to his ferociously expanding dogfighting stable but never found the courage to do so.
On top of awaking and inciting the bevy of ignorant fools in the U.S. that should just wear their sheets out in public, Vick is going to reopen the wound that is slowly closing. What he did will never be forgotten. He will never be forgiven by the masses for his heinus crimes against dogs. But if he is looking for a way to own up to his mistakes, to atone for what he did, then getting paid to do a 10-part television series is not the way to do it. The best thing for him to do is continue his work with the Humane Society of the United States; to keep giving speaches to school kids about the horrors of dogfighting; to become a model citizen and stay out of trouble. You were already given a second chance by being allowed to continue your football career. You were voted as the Eagles' recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award.
There's one thing in life that's taken me a while to learn. Sometimes the more you try to explain yourself the worse things can get. Michael Vick is about to learn that lesson.