WASHINGTON (AP) - Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick brought his anti-dogfighting message to Congress on Tuesday, backing legislation that would penalize those who knowingly attend animal fights and allow minors to attend.

Vick, who served 18 months in prison on dogfighting charges, said he wants to teach kids wholesale nfl jersey not to repeat his mistakes and to take profits away from sponsors of these events.

The football star has been speaking at wholesale nhl jersey churches wholesale jerseys and schools along with Wayne Pacelle, wholesale ncaa jerseys president and chief cheap nhl jersey executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States. Pacelle told the news conference, "I had a lot of soul searching to do" before deciding to partner with Vick in efforts to stop animal fighting events.

"Help us to reach out to these kids cheap mlb jersey before they go down the wrong path," Vick said.

The Hampton, Va. native said that while he became cheap nfl jersey involved in dogfighting in his youth, he was unaware that more children are now attending these gruesome events. He said his own experience taught wholesale nfl jersey him that attending animal fights has an impact on children.

"It's up to the parents to take responsibility and make cheap jerseys sure it doesn't happen," he said.

Sponsors of the legislation cheap jersey said the laws against animal fighting need to be strengthened.

It is illegal in 49 states to be a knowing spectator at an animal fight, while 28 impose felony-level penalties on cheap nfl jersey those attending.

The bill would impose penalties of up to a year in wholesale mlb jersey prison and fines for attending an animal fight, and a penalty of up to three years in prison and fines for bringing or allowing a minor to attend.

The main sponsors of the legislation are Reps. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, and Tom Marino, R-Pa., wholesale jersey with Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., co-chairman of wholesale basketball jersey the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, among its co-sponsors.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Myra Kraft, the wife of New England Patriots cheap basketball jerseys owner Robert Kraft and a hard-working philanthropist dedicated to numerous causes, died Wednesday. She was 68.

She died Wednesday morning after a battle with cancer, the NFL team said in a statement.

"We are all heartbroken," the statement said, adding that the philanthropic community has "suffered a great loss."

Myra Hiatt Kraft was an active and powerful force in her family's foundation and served on the boards of varied community and charitable organizations.

She managed the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation and was president of the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation, which contributed millions of dollars to charities in the United States and Israel.

In 1995, she became the first woman to chair the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, a position she held until 2002. She served the past two years as chair of the board of directors of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley.

"Myra led by example through her hands on commitment to bettering the communities we serve," Michael Durkin, president and CEO of that United Way chapter, said in a statement. "While Myra will be deeply missed, her legacy of kindness to all cheap baseball jerseys will remain a beacon of hope in trying times."

She also served as chairwoman of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and was on the board cheap ncaa jerseys of directors of the American Repertory Theatre, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, and Brandeis University, where she graduated in 1964.

"With her great heart and magnificent spirit, cheap jerseys free shipping she lived her life in service cheap football jerseys to those who cheap authentic jerseys needed her help," said Barry Shrage, president of CJP. "Myra loved the land of Israel and the Israeli people and visited as often as she could."

Brandeis president Frederick M. Lawrence, chosen by a search committee on which she served, said, "She was always reaching out to students, faculty and other trustees and served as a model to all of us in so many ways. Myra was not just a philanthropist, she was a humanitarian in both a personal sense and a community sense."

Robert Kraft is chairman of the NFL's Broadcast Committee and a member of its Labor Committee.

During his wife's illness, he has been deeply involved with talks to arrive at a new collective bargaining agreement and end the lockout of NFL players.

"On behalf of all NFL players, I want to offer my deepest sympathies to Bob and the Kraft family," NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith said. "I know how much he loves Myra. We mourn her loss and the entire player family is with heavy hearts today."

She married Robert Kraft in June 1963 while she was a student at Brandeis.

But she was not, at first, an enthusiastic supporter of her husband's attempts to buy the Patriots, who play just 20 miles from where he grew up in Brookline.

He became owner in January 1994, paying $172 million, an NFL record at the time, for a team that was cheap jerseys free shipping 19-61 the previous five seasons.

"She thought it was nuts," he said in an interview with cheap mlb jerseys The Associated Press last January. "She was afraid it would affect our charitable giving and I said, `We will do more for the community if we run this franchise correctly."

Earlier that month, Robert and Myra Kraft announced a $20-million gift to help attract doctors and nurses to Massachusetts community health centers.

She kept a low public profile regarding the team, but in 1996 pushed for the Patriots to renounce their rights to fifth-round draft pick Christian Peter. cheap jerseys for sale He had been arrested eight times, with four of those charges being dismissed. But the defensive lineman from Nebraska pleaded no contest to third-degree sexual assault. The team gave up its rights to him soon after the draft.

On Wednesday, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, arriving at an Atlanta hotel for an NFL owners meeting, said, "I'm just heartbroken, I'm just crushed. I found out just before I left. I love Robert and Myra and I'm just devastated and I feel awful for Robert and his family."

In Washington for an NFLPA meeting, Patriots player representative Matt Light said, "It's amazing how much one person cheap throwback jerseys can do."

Heath Evans, a New Orleans Saints running back who played for the Patriots from 2006-2008, tweeted: "What made Myra Kraft special? Strong but Tender-hearted/Proud but Humble/Bold but Soft-Spoken/Extremely blessed but lived to be a Blessing."

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, said that he and his wife had been cheap nhl jerseys friends with Myra Kraft for more than 20 years and that he spoke with Robert Kraft on Wednesday morning.

"I know he and the whole family are devastated and so are we," Patrick said. "She had an incredible kindness and thoughtfulness and shrewdness as a businessperson and as a leader among the not-for-profit and charitable sector here."

One of the Patriots' biggest rivals, the New York Jets, also was saddened.

"A passionate and caring woman, Myra's legacy will be the scores of people she touched through her love, friendship, and philanthropic endeavors," said Jets chairman Woody Johnson.

Myra Kraft was the daughter of Jacob Hiatt, who grew up in Lithuania and moved to the United States in 1935.

He settled in Worcester, where she was born. Hiatt became president of the E.F. Dodge Paper Box Corp. in Leominster in 1938 and stayed on when it was bought by Whitney Box.

The company is now known as cheap nba jerseys the Rand-Whitney Group which Robert Kraft bought in 1972. He now serves as its chairman and chief executive officer.

The Krafts have four sons, Jonathan, cheap custom jerseys Daniel, Joshua and David. Jonathan is cheap jerseys usa president of the Patriots. Daniel is president and CEO of International Forest Products, founded in 1972 by his father. Joshua is president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.

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