As bad as my end of 2005 was (for reasons of family health problems), I cannot imagine someone who ended 2005 and began 2006 with as many self-inflicted problems as a certain Marcus Vick, former quarterback for the Virginia Tech Hokies, and younger brother of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. How bad has the last month gone? Let's see:
December 17th--stopped and arrested for driving with a suspended license and gets a speeding ticket to boot
January 2nd--Leads Virginia Tech to victory over Louisville in the Gator Bowl. Video of the game shows him stomping on Elvis Dumervil after a tackle. He is soon kicked off the team, because he violated the school's no-tolerance policy after a previous guilty plea to 3 counts of contributing to the dilinquency of a minor, as well as sexual activity with a minor. Those charges had gotten him suspended for the entire 2004 season.
January 9th--arrested for three counts of brandishing a firearm
Marcus Vick is a talented football player, and his skills in running and passing are unquestioned. He may not be as good a football player as his brother is, but he's pretty close. His head is not in the right place, though. He is planning on playing in the NFL next year, if he avoids jail time, but whichever team drafts him is going to have to keep him out of trouble and find him some sensible role model. If he wasn't a football player, this guy would probably be in jail for a long time over his past indiscretions. He's lucky he's free to take his constitutional somewhere outside of the state penitentiary.
So, where does he go from here? Hopefully he lays low for a few months, cools his heels, practices football with his brother, and tries to repair his reputation as a spoiled, arrogant hothead with a penchant for guns, alcohol, and underage girls (that is not a good combination). If he doesn't, well, his jail is going to have one great prison football team, that's for sure.
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Maybe Marcus and Maurice Clarett can hang out together. You know, go to the gun range.
Who knows, they're probably already acquaintances, if not friends. The NFL is, after all, a small world. There are fewer than 2000 people on the roster for all NFL teams, and if you include the scout teams, you're looking at 3000 players total in the NFL world. That's small enough where people can know each other pretty easily, especially when they share, um, common interests as Clarett and Marcus Vick do.
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