Since his sentencing earlier this week, details have come out about a letter Mike Vick sent to the judge prior to the sentencing asking for leniency. The substance and point of this letter I couldn't care less about. Of course he wrote it, of course he tried to pawn off blame on other people, and of course the judge really didn't take it into consideration during the sentencing. Whatever.
George Foreman and Hank Aaron also both wrote letters to the judge in support of Vick, presumably asking for leniency. That doesn't interest me either. Typically well-known people who get in trouble get support from other well-known people. Whatever.
What interests me is what Foreman wrote in his letter. Or, more accurately, how Foreman opened his letter to Vick's judge. Here it is, thanks to Fanhouse:
Dear Judge Hudson:
I'm a fulltime minister at the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston, Texas, former two-time Heavyweight Champion of the world, and known all over the world as the king of the grills because of the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine.
(Sigh...) Really? I mean, seriously? That was necessary? At this point, the rest of the letter becomes irrelevant. He couldn't just start with 'I'm George Foreman'? Or stop after the 'two-time heavyweight Champion of the world' line? He had to put a plug in for his grills? This is helping Mike Vick how?
