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"Add into the fact that by all accounts, Vick is rapper-chain-swinging, jacked-up-Caprice-with-spinners-driving, leather-hat-turned-around-sideways-wearing, punkass ghetto thug, and it is completely amazing to me that he could get this kind of dough and recognition...
The fact that kids wear his jersey all over the place just reflects the sad social "creeping hip-hop-nosis" that is permeating our once great nation (but that's a whole other argument...)
Falcon fans should put his face on the side of a milk carton with the caption "Have you seen our quarterback during crunchtime?"...
(For more on the "Newport News, VA 7th Avenue Vick Bling-Bling Playahz", see: Vick, Marcus...)
I actually heard one scout say during the draft as he was speaking about interviewing Vince Young (and I am prarphrasing from memory):
"We thought we were going to get a kid all full of himself, like a Michael Vick type, but we were pleasantly surprised at how humble he was..."
A "Michael Vick type"...doesn't that just say it all...
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Sources:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/2001/0508/1193460.html
http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/235253
(BTW, is it obvious I just don't like Michael Vick? Probably an old VaTech / UM thing!)[/QUOTE]
You can hate on Vick all you want because I certainly agree that he is highly overrated. But I just have to laugh at the fact that a Miami guy is ripping on an NFL player for being "rapper-chain-swinging, jacked-up-Caprice-with-spinners-driving, leather-hat-turned-around-sideways-wearing, punkass ghetto thug."
You pretty much just described every player to ever come out of the U with the exception of Ken Dorsey.
And Oh yeah, I can't believe that this thread has gotten this big without mentioning Charles Woodson. I would take Law, Hall, Bailey and Ellis Hobbs III over him any day.