Congrats to Eagles QB Michael Vick. The Eagles and Vick have agreed on a new six year deal worth $100 million. The new deal gives Vick $40 million guaranteed. It makes Vick one of the highest players in the game. He joined the Eagles in 2009.
ESPN The Magazine has dedicated its entire football preview issue to controversial QB Michael Vick, including a feature which poses the question, “What if Michael Vick were white?”
It’s complicated, concludes the thought piece’s author, Touré. What’s also complicated is the status of the article’s photo — a digital rendering of Vick as a white man — on ESPN’s website.
A lengthy piece in the upcoming issue of GQ highlights Michael Vick’s mindset past and present and the aftermath of the dogfighting scandal that sent him to prison for two years. How’d he handle the sentencing and subsequent backlash?
“For a while, it was all ‘Scold Mike Vick, scold Mike Vick, just talk bad about him, like he’s not a person,’” he said. “It’s almost as if everyone wanted to hate me. But what have I done to anybody? It was something that happened, and it was people trying to make some money.”
Michael Vick is lending his support to a congressional bill that will penalize those who attend animal fights.
The Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act would make attending an animal fight a misdemeanor punishable up to a year in prison. Under the act, bringing a child to an animal fight could cost an offender up to three years in jail.
Speaking on Capitol Hill, th
Congrats to Philadelphia Eagle's QB Michael Vick who has been resigned by Nike. It’s good news for the Eagles quarterback who lost his major endorsement deals after serving nearly two years behind bars following his involvement in a dogfighting racket.
November 16, 2010 Monday night when the Eagles visited the Redskins, I do not think that anyone knew that Michael Vick would have the type of performance that he did. I for one am so happy that he did what he did and at the same time remained humbled and focused through it all
