Matt Mosley goes to great lengths to write about Michael Vick. Matt Mosley is a writer for ESPN and Michael Vick is an NFL player. Why would Mosley do that? Because Michael Vick is the most talked about player in the NFL at this point in time. He is obviously using kairos. He wrote this article a week before Vick would make his first NFL appearance back in the league.
Vick has been the topic in the NFL for the last few months because of his actions in criminal law. The first question he addresses about Vick was will he be allowed to play again. Since this is now being discussed, how he will do this upcoming Sunday, Vick was obviously allowed to play and was signed by the Philidelphia Eagles.Michael Vick was released from prison a few months ago. He was there for 18 months. He was charged 18 long months because he was into so called "Dogfighting". Mosley asserts a good question, what will Vick do now that he is back in the NFL? Every true football fan is wondering how he will play in his first real game back in action. This could have been the end of Michael Vick's football career, had he not been accepted back into the NFL. Then he would not be a topic of interest, but he was and that is why Kairos is found here. Even if he wins a Super Bowl, people will still talk about how he almost was not accepted back into the NFL. It is very interesting to hear his views and predictions. It makes one wonder what will happen on Sunday when he suits up for the big game.
Mosley is going back to the fact that Vick was in trouble and then got out. Reed took him in because he had same issues with his own children as well. Mosley isn't so much referring to the fact of what Michael Vick did, as to how much h is talking about Vick's future as a player and what will happen with him. This is why Mosley did not write about Vick when he was is prison, rather now because people want to know what the future holds for him.
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ReplyDeleteNice job - you use a great example for kairos in relating why Vick is still in the news. In reading your post, however, I had one question: how does this article's kairos effect the audience? Obviously many sports fans care about this topic, but why is it still important? How does kairos effect that?
ReplyDeleteThanks Jessica! I fixed it!
ReplyDeleteIs Mosley trying to shift the discussion on Michael Vick back toward the dogfighting or away from it? What does he do to change the kairos? Let's talk.
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