Vick 'Em Shirts: Too Soon?

Posted Oct 10th 2007 12:37PM by TMZ Staff

In an effort to poke a little fun at the Michael Vick scandal and irk rival Texas A&M, students at Texas Tech created a t-shirt depicting a football player hanging a dog with the slogan "Vick 'Em" across the front.
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A&M and Tech play this weekend. The "Vick 'Em" slogan is in reference to the A&M slogan "Gig 'em" and the dog being hung in the photo is A&M's mascot. The player doing the hanging is wearing a number seven jersey -- that's Vick's number.

Amazingly enough, the shirts were created by the Theta Chi fraternity at Texas Tech in an effort to raise money for the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. According to the Daily Toreador, Texas Tech's student paper, the t-shirts are no longer being produced, and the frat was kicked off campus as a result.

"We realize the shirts shouldn't have been printed," Geoffrey Candia, the creator of the shirts, told the AP. Hindsight is 20-20!

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1. This is just wrong.

Posted at 12:35PM on Oct 10th 2007 by wasted days and wasted nights

2. That's sick

Posted at 12:37PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Delilah

3. Not cute - quite lame!

Posted at 12:37PM on Oct 10th 2007 by im just saying

4. I WANT ONE!

Posted at 12:40PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Jan

5. I WANT ONE!

Posted at 12:40PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Jan

6. Yeah, this is WRONG, and sick and it"s not funny at all. College educated kids should know better. They should be taught better.

Posted at 12:43PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Jcase

7. Instead of gathering the support of the fans, it could do the exact opposite. Not funny at all, just plain stupid really. It was obviously designed by a male.

Posted at 12:44PM on Oct 10th 2007 by there are better things to do with your time

8. Hanging the dog part is bad but I like "Vick 'em" !!!!

Posted at 12:45PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Dawn Day

9. How about, "Con Vick Em!" !

Posted at 12:49PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Aunt Acid

10. that's adorable

Posted at 12:54PM on Oct 10th 2007 by take dat betches

11. Totally, totally disgusting. Yeah, killing dogs is just so cool. This just confirms my already low opinion of Texas A&M "university."

Posted at 12:58PM on Oct 10th 2007 by CaliforniaGirl

12. This just goes to show what type of mentality some Tech students have. M. Vicki choose to do what he was doing--knowing full well it was illegal--that is not something to laugh about. To an Aggie, Reveille is a symbol of the school spirit and the pride that we have in Texas A & M (nothing to laugh about if you've ever had upper level college courses). Basically, I guess we have to acknowledge that even with a college education some people will still act like imbeciles. I am glad that the frat was kicked off campus and I hope they are not through with the creator of the t-shirt yet--he deserves to be dealt with in a manner that would dissuade others from following in his footsteps.

Gig 'Em Aggies

Posted at 12:58PM on Oct 10th 2007 by True Aggie

13. They are Texas Tech's shirts, created by a Texas Tech fraternity. So, even though my opinion of A&M is low also, they shouldn't be blamed for this shirt. Get your facts straight, TMZ.

Posted at 1:03PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Valerie

14. The t-shirts were being made by the Theta Chi fraternity at Texas Tech not Texas A&M. Candia is a Tech student.

Posted at 1:03PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Lisa

15. I think you guys meant to write that the fraternity who made the shirts were from Texas Tech NOT Texas A&M. From Tech's article on the subject...

"I came up with the idea and I drew it," said Scott Klingle, a member of Theta Chi. "I'm an artist, that's what I live for. I want my work to be noticed. There's no reason for me to get in trouble," he said. "It's freedom of speech. It's all in good fun," Klingle said.

Come on.....I have heard many Aggie jokes but seriously, Aggies have more class than that.!

Posted at 1:04PM on Oct 10th 2007 by proud aggie

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