Shackled to Vick
December 18, 2007 at 4:48 pm by Scott Freeman in News, SportsThe NFL has fined five Falcon players who showed support for fallen former quarterback Michael Vick last Sunday. Of course, they didn’t show enough support to actually win one for the Vicker. They only adjusted their uniform to “honor” Vick. Wide receiver Roddy White, for example, wore a “Free Mike Vick” T-shirt under his uniform. And DeAngelo Hall ran out onto the field holding a Vick poster.
The Nation of Islam Sportsblog has its own take on the situation:
… what got back to Vick (from the NFL) is clear:
You are dead to us.
‘Free Mike Vick’?
No.
Mike Vick has been in chains from the first day he put on shoulder pads.
And this well intentioned, though poorly thought out maneuvre by the Falcon players only further tightened the shackles around their own wrists.
If I’m going to be chained, a $130 million contract would most definitely help alleviate my mental anguish. Hell, I might volunteer to be chained for half that much money. But only if they let me wear shoulder pads.
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