New York arena team offers Vick a contract

[iCandiBallPythons]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)—Michael Vick has a place on a minor league football team if he can get reinstated by the NFL.

The Albany Firebirds, an arenafootball2 franchise, have offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.

Vick quarterbacked the Atlanta Falcons for six seasons before being convicted of bankrolling an interstate dog fighting business.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has not said if he will lift Vick’s suspension after he completes a 23-month prison sentence. Vick goes from federal prison to home confinement next month.

The Firebirds’ contract offer requires that Vick donate $100,000 to a local humane society.

A call to Vick’s agent was not immediately returned.

[FIREball]

200 a week??? Thats less than minimum wage

[RebelYell83]

also heard the UFL is tryin to open as a league,and a team there may offer him a contract

[Clementine_3]

Hot off the local (Albany) press:

UPDATE: Beat writer Mark Singelais just got off the phone with Firebirds owner Walter Robb late Tuesday afternoon. Mr Robb is not happy.

“That’s a joke. That’s a joke,” he said of the offer.

“I think it was a big mistake,” Robb continued. “I just found out about it 10 minutes ago.”

“I don’t want anything to do with him,” he said. “I certainly would not have approved it had I known it was even being joked about.”

The offer, alas, is off the table. Truth be told, it was never really on.

http://blogs.timesunion.com/mcguire/?p=3340

[Jerhart]

[iCandiBallPythons]

x2 lol

[FIREball]

Did anyone ever watch the special on his dogs and what happened to them afterwards? It was actually a great piece, they only had to put down 1 or 2 dogs and all the rest got adopted out, none had behavioral problems that they noticed in the tests that they put these pits through prior to adoptions.

[Jerhart]

I saw the previews on E60, but missed it. I have a hard time watching shows on animal abuse but it sounds like it had a happy ending for the most part!