Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Vick makes Leavenworth into the Longest Yard

That Michael Vick was suspended in the first place, on the known activities of gambling within the dogfighting ring, was a bit of a shock as the custom is part of the life that is lived on the north shore of the James River in Virigina.

But now with news of his playing ironman all time quarterback at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary Camp in Kansas, mainly to keep in shape for the next two years less a month, Michael really is living out the Longest Yard in real life. Vick has been incarcerated for 23 months at the facility's minimum security, federally sentenced in December after pleading guilty to its charges, but all this seems to be nothing but a chicken wing as he will be in one of the best minor league football systems in the world, on par with Canadian, World and Arena ball, as he begins to toss the ball during their prison football season. While Michael takes advantage of his unfortunate situation, his fellow Virgina Tech Quarterback brother Marcus has been in a ton of legal troubles himself, mainly alcohol and drug charges, which just may land him in the same new league as his brother, if the Montgomery Federal Penitentiary Camp in Alabama makes him their own first round draft pick.

Instead of them playing against each other with the Atlanta Falcons and Miami Dolphins, perhaps we instead shall be seeing a Ron Mexico playcalling Leavenworth against one Jon Canada bootlegging Montgomery in a most epic showdown on the field since Paul Crewe and his Mean Machine, then again perhaps the guards would already have the prisonsers' number and payoff the playoff game before it happened.