“The Summer Of Vick” Is Coming

BasX · Mar 29, 2009

It’s becoming increasingly clear that one of the dominant story lines of the 2009 offseason will be the fate of Falcons quarterback Mike Vick.

Apart from the fact that he’ll head home on May 20 to serve out the last two months of his federal prison sentence without the need for Soap-on-a-Rope and then exit federal custody on July 20 and then try to waltz back onto a football field, Vick is embroiled in a contentious bankruptcy proceeding and faces new allegations that he raided a pension fund to pay some of his pre-prison bills.

On top of everything else, Vick is reportedly peddling a book.

According to the New York Daily News, literary agent Scott Waxman is shopping a Mike Vick memoir.

“What will he call his book, ‘Vick: One Lucky Dog’?” PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told the Daily News. “If Vick has started writing this book while in jail, the proceeds should fall under the rule that says a felon can’t profit from his murderous deeds.”

The bigger question is whether Vick’s plan to supplement his revenue with the money of folks who want to read the story of a man who had it all and squandered it constitutes the kind of remorse for which NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will be probing.

“Shame and contrition mean keeping a low profile and letting time tell that you’ve reformed, not angling for . . . a return to stardom and a book deal,” Newkirk said.

And we agree. Prison apparently has not stripped Vick of his athletic entitlement mentality — as evidenced by a proposed bankruptcy plan that would allow him to keep among other things a Ms. Pacman arcade game.

The bigger problem, as we see it, is that Vick apparently still surrounds himself with enablers, and the enablers know that if they tell Vick he’s should do something other than what Vick wants to do, they’ll no longer be on the Mike Vick payroll.
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