Michael Vick thinks weed all be better if weed all drink more water
January 19, 2007 by James Edwards
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Raise your hand if your water bottle has a secret compartment!
In not his brightest moment, Michael Vick was caught with a water bottle that had a secret compartment. In the secret compartment was some black particulate and a smell like marijuana.
Shades of Ricky Williams, what is Vick thinking?
Three Problems
The leadership of NFL Marketing must be puking over their 3 martini lunches. First Michael has problems winning with a women claiming she got herpes from him. Strike one.
Then the Vickster… has problems because he flips off the fans. Strike two.
Now there are implications of heavy use of weed. Strike Three in the marketing department.
So what happens next?
Under Florida law, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. First offenders rarely do any jail time.
“We’ll do an analysis and see what it is. There’s no sense of urgency to it,” Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said Thursday.
The NFL’s substance abuse policy states any team can decide that a player’s “behavior, including but not limited to an arrest,” can warrant a physical exam from its appointed medical director. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said no decision had been made in Vick’s case. source
How good is Vick
3 Pro Bowls.
First quarterback to gain over 1,000 yards rushing.
General Manager Rich McKay is hoping Vick will stay out of trouble and play well enough to earn the starting job. What? To play well enough to earn the starting job?
Did we forget all the waiting talent at Atlanta at the quarterback position? Yeah, right.
Did we mention 3 pro bowls? Oh, yeah, we did.
This year he threw for 2,400 yards and 20 touchdowns and ran for another 1,000 yards on a not very good team.
Hey, welcome to the NFL, new coach Bobby Petrino!
What is the real problem?
The big problem here is really two things and they are not small.
1. 137 million dollars
2. The face of the NFL
Falcon’s owner Arthur Blank started paying Michael Vick 137 million dollars 3 years ago. At the time the largest NFL contract.
The NFL has wanted badly to market Michael Vick to the masses. He is exciting when he plays well. In order to do that Michael needs more of a squeaky clean image. He has pretty much destroyed that.
What will happen?
A slap on the wrist.
Next year he will start for the Falcons.
The NFL Marketing department will look elsewhere.
No more taking the water bottle on flights.
NFL Football Fan Question So does it bother you when star athletes making millions are caught with the chronic, the dust, the alcohol, wife beating, cheating on their taxes, gambling, etc.? Or do you write it off because they are usually very young, famous, with tons of money and time, and little guidance?
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That wasn’t a water bottle, it was a water pipe!When your stoned you forget things!I have a few stoner friends and before a plane ride they smoke wildly.
I was eating lunch when I read your title and I almost spit my food. ROFL.
I think the NFL’s policy on marijuana is ridiculous and with the loss of perhaps 2 top draft picks (Williams and Vick), it might be time to take another look at it.
Steroids, speed and pot are all different, and while two produce an advantage on the field, I don’t see how pot could do so in any way. A larger, stronger body is an advantage. A body that is cranked up on speed is an advantage. A body that hits the field after a couple of bong rips on the other hand…
If it’s about projecting an “image” for the kids, then what better way to do that than to have their heros broken down in the national press over a substance that is legal in so many countries?
Ricky Williams is a fruitcake – but he was also one of the most tallented running backs to come out of college in the past 10 years. Was his enjoyment of canibis THAT serious? What advantage did it give him over his opposition?
None – - – and that’s what the drug policy is supposed to be about! Ensuring one team doesn’t have an unfair advantage over other other. The sanctity of the game as I see it has to do with the 60 minutes spent on the field. If David Boston can live off of suplements and it’s alright…if that’s not a bad influence in the eyes of the NFL, that a star receiver doesn’t even eat food, then how in the hell can a bong hit be such a bad thing?
It seems big brother is just like little brother.
(*sigh*)
It seems the elder Mora was more and more correct: a coach killer, a franchise killer.
Somebody better talk some sense into MV before he has to go to Canada and run an offense with Ricky. (But try stopping that offense from running!)
Oh, man, you got me thinking. Vick and Williams in the same backfield. wow!
maybe Charles Rogers at receiver?
read an interesting comment from The Monday AM QB…if it were you or I, we would have ended up in jail…Vick was briefly detained, then boarded the plane and went on his merry way. What’s wrong with that?
Actually, having coached a basketball team from an impoverished area of mixed racial diversity, it is not surprising for the Police to take the evidence and charge you later.
Think it has to do with all the ways a person can get off if proper procedure is not followed.
Dead I,
have never understood the pot testing myself. It has to be mostly to pay lip service to the public for being a family form of entertainment. Right?!?
The HGH and Steroid stuff bothers me more due to the unfair advantage that is gained.
Dubbz,
of course, if it had been you or me it would have been jail time. :)
We’d be able to make bail also, but with someone who’s loaded like Vick, the process moves much faster I’d imagine. Possession of a small amount in some states warrants a ticket, but unless you’re in Utah I’d imagine it’s a misdimenor.
It’s a backlash from the many many years when pro football players were the most stoned/STD infected/boozed up monsters in all of professional sports. The drugs come into it due to Just Say No, and that period where cocaine became such a problem, all “drugs” were demonized as a set, and the NFL didn’t want to miss out on the payday that they’re experiencing in full force today.
I’m a purist in terms of the players and the game itself…and having been a fan of the Patriots through the bad, the horrible, the shamefull on up until today, I’ve seen first hand how the individual teams set the toughest standards on the issues that really matter in terms of off-field stuff. When Ben Coates showed up on the blotter for domestic abuse, he was gone. If you listen to someone like Richard Seymour in a press conference like today’s, talking about his teammates, he’s talking about character, family men, etc…
If the team isn’t drawing a line on what a player can be as a person and still be a part of the organization, then you’re going to have an embarrasing situation regardless of how many suspensions the league hands out.
The substance abuse policy falls outside of this completely in my opinion, as in terms of my interests as a fan, I’m looking at a number on the back of a jersey. The “character” of that man is of little consequence after the ball is snapped. At that point I WANT TO ASSUME that the two teams are going at it on equal terms. If one side is high on crank and moving the pile because of it, the entire thing is ruined for me…of course, not knowing helps quite a lot, but it’s really the idea of an unfair advantage that bothers me more than anything else.
Pot doesn’t even belong in the conversation as far as that goes, since a lineman who’s high on that isn’t moving anyone anywhere!
To make my point as a football fan first and foremost…the left side of San Diego’s offensive line pushed around the Pats like I haven’t seen a team do in years. That’s tallent and size and raw -meat-eating kind of nasty that I can accept being beaten by. Those same guys playing over their heads because they’re high is unacceptable.
THAT should be the NFL’s goal first and foremost with their drug policy. Ensuring that nobody cheats the fans out of a game. Whether or not these players cheat themselves…shoot, what’s worse, getting high and lazy in the offseason, or the fact that some of these guys won’t be able to remember their own phone number by age 50 regardless…they’re killing themselves already by playing pro football in the first place.
So as long as they don’t cheat – just leave them the hell alone.
Dead I,
could not agree more.
one of the reasons that baseball no longer appeals to me.
Seems like someone in the NFL would have told him to bring the brownies, not the water bong when you fly. Isn’t that what you pay your agent for.
Hey, was over at Vick’s house last night. You’re not saying he spiked the brownies are you?