Teammates to Visit Michael Vick in the Joint
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It truly is the holiday season. Ron Mexico, serving 23 months for murdering puppies, will have some visitors. Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall said he and his teammates would drop in on Michael Vick in the clink. God bless us, every one.
“Probably in the next week or so,” Hall said. “I think a couple guys are going to go up there to Virginia, get a chance to go see him. We all talked about [doing it] when the season was over. The season is over. We’ll try to formulate a plan to get up there to see him.”
Hall, Alge Crumpler, Joe Horn, Chris Houston and Roddy White were fined earlier this month for “violating the uniform policy” (read: sporting homemade “Free Vick” shirts, posters, knick knacks, et cetera). Also around that time, Crumpler told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Mr. Mexico isn’t a bad person … unless you’re a no-fight-winning canine.
In one sense, it’s good that Vick’s family and friends aren’t abandoning him after his fall from grace, but I’m guessing most people aren’t losing any sleep over his incarceration. Fair enough. Whatever, Hall thinks it’ll be tough for Vick to see his teammates while wearing an orange jumpsuit:
“Probably harder for him to see us,” he said. “It’s probably going to be real tough for him. I know when I spoke to him before training camp started, being told he wasn’t going to be able to come to training camp crushed him. He loved this team more than anything.”
Well, almost anything, anyway.
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