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Born: June 26, 1980
Hometown: Newport News, Virginia
Age: 29
Height: 6'
Weight: 215 lbs.
Pro Debut: 2001 (ATL Falcons)
Michael Dwayne Vick (born June 26, 1980, in Newport News, Virginia) is a professional American football quarterback. Vick is currently a free agent, though suspended from NFL play.
Vick played college football at Virginia Tech. As a quarterback, he was remarkable for both his running and passing abilities. In 1999, he set the NCAA record for passing efficiency by a freshman and won several awards. He placed third in the Heisman Trophy balloting, then also a record for a freshman. He left Virginia Tech after his sophomore season to enter the NFL. Read more
The Michael Vick Project
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In this eight-part series, cameras will not only capture the NFL star's return to football after a two-year prison term stemming from his association with a dogfighting ring, but they will also focus on much of his life prior to that turning point.
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"There's so much ego involved in dog fighting, but why? It's not a skill, it's not something you get accolades for. You don't really get anything good out of it, so go find a way to satisfy your ego in a way that doesn't harm animals or other people. And maybe helps some people out instead. You can feed your ego and do good at the same time." - Feb 21, 2010; Essence Magazine
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Vick Signs Nike Endorsement
One of Michael Vick’s representatives announced today at a sporting goods symposium in New York that the Eagles quarterback has signed an endorsement deal with Nike.
The Sports Business Journal reported that Mike Principe, managing director for BEST, the agency that represents Vick, confirmed the deal, but that Principe would reveal no other details.
This is a fascinating turn of events since Nike had cut its ties to Vick in 2007 after he pled guilty to dog-fighting charges. When it first suspended Vick’s deal, a company statement said Nike considers “any cruelty to animals inhumane and abhorrent.” Nike reportedly made 30,000 of the Vick V shoes and dropped the shoe before distribution, costing the company a reported $1.5 million.
Anti-Vick Shirt Barred at Game
A fan from Delaware County said yesterday she was barred from Lincoln Financial Field before Sunday’s Eagles game until she agreed to turn inside out a T-shirt critical of quarterback Michael Vick.
Kori Martin, 32, of Broomall, said she was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “Losers fight pitbulls” on the front, with Vick’s name and No. 7 crossed out. On the back, she said, were the words “You don’t deserve a second chance.”
Martin said she was stopped at the gate by security guards who said that she could not wear the shirt because it was offensive to players and that the policy came from top management.
After some discussion, she agreed to wear the shirt inside out and was allowed to enter the stadium.
Last night, Pamela Browner Crawley, the team’s senior vice president of public affairs, said she knew of no specific policy banning such shirts.
More on Vick’s NFL Return
Michael Vick’s return to the NFL was ordinary at best. The moments before it happened though, lifted his heart and made his day.
For the record, Vick carried once for 7 yards, threw two incompletions and either handed off or was a decoy on eight other plays as the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 34-14 Sunday in the quarterback’s first regular-season action since December 2006.
Just returning to the game he loved after serving 18-months in federal prison on a dogfighting conviction moved him.
Standing on the sidelines as the national anthem played, Vick let his mind go over his downfall over the past 33 months.
“I am thinking about everything I have been through,” Vick said after the game. “I am thinking about what it took to get back to this point. I am thinking about my grandmother, who I lost in prison and what she would think.”
The last time Vick saw his grandmother, Caletha, was on the day he surrendered to authorities and was taken to federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. She died during his 18-month incarceration.
“I know she would have been proud of me,” Vick said, noting her memory pushes him every day to return to being a great player.”
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A Side Note
I’ve decided that the site won’t have a gallery….at least not yet. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to devote to scoping out pics, new or old, and that probably won’t be for some time due to school and such. But hopefully by new year’s I will.
And ……
Michael came in at #2 on today’s top searches on Yahoo.
Eagles Defeat Cheifs
Michael Vick made a low-key return to National Football League action Sunday, appearing in 11 plays for Philadelphia in the Eagles 34-14 victory over Kansas City.
Vick carried the ball once for 7 yards, threw two incomplete passes and either handed off the ball or acted as a decoy on eight other plays.
It was the former Falcons superstar’s first regular-season appearance since December of 2006, after which he served more than a year in prison and provoked a storm of outrage nationwide for bankrolling a brutal dogfighting ring.
Vick went into the game on the second play from scrimmage, lining up at wide receiver and having a hand-off faked to him.
Vick received a brief ovation from some fans, but left the game before many seemed to realize he’d gone in.
Vick’s most effective play in the first half was a seven-yard gain from a shotgun snap.
Vick, who has called his involvement with dogfighting “a horrible mistake,” left prison in July and inked a one-year contract worth 1.6 million dollars with the Eagles.
He was allowed to play in two pre-season games, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in September that his regular-season suspension would end after the first two weeks of this year.
Protesters Try to Rain on Vick’s Parade
A group of demonstrators assembled outside of Lincoln Financial Field to protest the return of Michael Vick to the NFL.
The Washington Post reports that “about two dozen” protesters assembled as Vick prepared to play in his first regular-season game since 2006.
They carried signed saying “Vick Is Sick,” “You Can’t Fix Evil,” “Buy Ticket, Support Murder” and “How Low Can the NFL Go?”
There was comparatively little protest when Vick made his preseason debut last month. The Eagles signed him after he ended a 20-month sentence for a federal dogfighting conviction.
Source: USA Today
People need to soooo grow up! The man’s paid his debt to society – leave him alone and let him play!!!
Quick Congrats
Being a huge fan of Kendra Wilkinson, I just wanted to send out a congratulations to her hubby Hank Baskett for signing with the Indianapolis Colts!
Hank Baskett is now a former Eagle
Kendra Wilkinson’s husband Hank Baskett is out of a job.
The Philadelphia Eagles released the star receiver, 27, to make room for Michael Vick on the team’s 53-man roster.
The team said on its Web site that Vick, who had been on the exempt list, will begin practicing with the team on Wednesday. Vick can’t play in the first two regular-season games as a penalty for participating in a dogfighting ring.
Wilkinson, 24, and Baskett wed in July and are expecting their first child together in December.
Credit: OMG Yahoo
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