It’s a brand new attribution, so you may dispute my cite, but IMO there needs to be an element of malicious prosecution.
That is an awful shame. My son has been a fan of his since he was a pup.
Don’t let your son near Mr. Vick then.
Allegedly.
He did not get that money. NFL contracts are not guaranteed. When you see a contract announced note the signing bonus. That is the real money. After that if he gets cut they do not owe him the contract money. He is paid yearly after the bonus and they can stop paying him if he gets cut.
When Barry Sanders quit the Lions ,the Lions sued to get back the signing bonus. They figured even the bonus should be amortized for the length of the contract . He signed ,received his bonus and quit 2 years into the contract. The Lions wanted 5/7 of his bonus back.
They do.
Huh, not the first time I’ve been wrong. I learned something today.
The $37 million is the signing bonus. The total contract is $130 million.
The signing bonus is guaranteed.
gonzomax is wrong on more than just that. I’m sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but generally, where a player has a contract he can’t get cut (i.e. fail to make the team because of ability, despite being healthy – not to be confused with being let go for some other reason that would nullify the contract (like being imprisoned)). If a player with a contract gets “cut,” the team still has to pay him or it has breached it’s contract. To avoid this, a team will buyout a contract, sometimes at a discount, since the player can’t play elswehere if he’s under contract. Sanders was a different story. He didn’t get cut. He quit/retired (i.e he breached the contract) so the Lions didn’t have to pay him. If he could get “cut” out from under a contract, a player would have almost no incentive to enter into one.
No - very few NFL “contracts” are guaranteed. In the NBA, you cannot be cut, IIRC. In the NFL, they can let you go and you get nothing.
Here’s an article from the AJC with more details on Vick’s contract, and how this incident may affect it:
I blame General Managers and coaches. It’s highly unlikely that these guys turn into antisocial pricks overnight upon joining the NFL. GMs and coaches don’t look for such traits and don’t care as long as the guy can throw a football into a three gallon bucket at 60 yards or do the 40 in 4.2.
really? their player association sucks. color me surprised. out of curiousity, do you have a cite for that?
I sort of get the feeling that Vick himself is the subject of the investigation.
Not just another person implicated by an interstate dog fighting ring.
A high-profile target to scare other people from doing what he did. Maybe?
Yeah, when I heard that little interview snippet my lip curled. I actually came in here to post that quote.
He might be innocent, conceivably, in the sense that it might not rain on a 90% chance day. But if he ever wanted to make anyone think he was innocent, he should have sounded convinced of his OWN innocence – not just his own popularity – when he did that interview. It’s not “I have nothing to worry about because I’m patently innocent,” it’s “I have nothing to worry about because I’m popular.”
You’d figure his lawyer would tell him what exonerated means if he didn’t already know. Or at least his lawyer would’ve told him what to say before going out into public. Why couldn’t he have even tried to sound innocent?
Maybe he’s too honest?
I just think that at the time, he didn’t realize how much trouble he could be in. Maybe he still doesn’t.
yeah, huh, what do you know? my appologies gonzomax. thanks, villa. let me reiterate, what a shitty player’s asociation.
Don’t leave the colleges out, though. Is that what we should expect from Virginia Tech graduates?
too soon
Do fans care? Not to remove the accountability of the coaches or the players, but…