He also raped a woman. Michael Vick is a great quarterback. He also participated in dog-fighting rings. H.P. Lovecraft was the father of modern horror. He was also a racist and a layabout. All of these are separate facts, and none of them affect each other; Michael Vick’s play on the gridiron is no less spectacular, and Chinatown is no less a fantastic film, and “The Call of Cthulhu” is no less seminal.