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Pilers-on are Vicktorious
October 10, 2007Poor, poor Michael Vick.
His former team and now even students at Texas Tech are all out to either take money from him or make it at his expense.
First, the Atlanta Falcons won the first round in their battle to disassociate themselves from the defrocked superstar.
An arbiter declared Tuesday that they were due back almost $20 million in signing bonus money from the 10-year, $130 million deal Vick signed in December 2004.
Then, at about the same time, we learned of an enterprising student in Lubbock and his "Vick 'Em" t-shirts being sold on the Tech campus for the Red Raiders' Saturday showdown with Texas A&M.
The t-shirts depict a caricature of Vick hanging Aggies' mascot Reveille -- which might be just a bit over the top -- and were later banned by the school administrators.
Since we've already gone down the "do you feel sorry for him?" road before with Vick, there's no need to revisit that line of thinking.
But, with state charges still pending for basically the same dog fighting allegations he already plead guilty to in federal court, things aren't looking good.
And while Vick only has himself to blame for all his troubles, at this point, one can only wonder where the next person with their hand out will pop in from.
Posted by Stephen Smith at 10:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
