AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Once upon a time Michael Dwayne Vick, a professional player of American football, superstar quarterback, flagship of the Atlanta Falcons and the National Football League

One of the greatest talents that the oval ball championship of North America has hosted over the last twenty to thirty years, one of those players in a position to revolutionize the role of quarterback, thanks to his great physical strength, his incredible shot, and if we want , his complexion, the antithesis of the cliché that the quarterback wants a paler face, more accustomed to lengthy passages that are not in the race and to the individual and of robust constitution, but not too much.

Beginnings - Born June 26 1980 in the Newport News, independent city of Hampton in Virginia, great player at the time the high school and collegiate level with the jersey of the Virginia Tech Hokies (University reached, as usual, thanks a scholarship for sports merits), the absolute first choice of the 2001 NFL draft (the first quarterback afroamericano called the number one), Vick quickly became one of the most recognizable of American sport, an athlete of great success in and off the field, but above all a marketing genius, capable of ringed a wide range of multi contracts that made him one of the most paid athletes from across America, reaching the coveted and famous list of 10 richest athletes in the U.S. ". Despite not being able to support collective awards (read: licenses) to the many individual goals achieved (part of the Griffin Award winner in 1999, convened three times a Pro Bowl wide variety of statistical records), Michael Vick, according to many experts, would had before it a long and luminous career, possibly enhanced by additional awards and honors. This, before the number 7 of the Atlanta Falcons will turn from idol of the crowds at one of the most hated men in America, with an unprecedented downward parabola. The experts do not have a means to predict with certainty the future, it could not imagine that Michael Vick, in 2007, was sentenced to 23 months' imprisonment, which is responsible for illegal activities linked to fighting between dogs.

IMPICCIONI cops! - Several times during his short but intense sporting career, Vick had to do with the law, or was the protagonist of cases rather curious and, at worst, suspect. In early 2004, two men were arrested for trafficking in drugs (marijuana) around Atlanta, the trucks on which they were was registered in the name of Michael Vick, which brought the number of trouble with the team ( "You are an Atlanta Falcon, whatever you do reflects on us, not only on you "rebuked the coach Dan Reeves). The same year, in October, while he and some members of his entourage were embarking on a flight all'Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, the surveillance cameras recorded two of his friends in the act of stealing a watch at a security officer at of the airport. In 2005, a woman named Sonya Elliott filed a complaint against him, accusing him of having sent a genital herpes in the fall of 2002, without informing it of being infected: Vick, said the Elliott, filed false identity clinics where went for treatment, claiming to be "Ron Mexico" (which led some fans to buy the Atlanta Falcons T-shirts with the name "Mexico" above the number 7, what then banned by the NFL).

MA ANDATE AFFANC ... - In 2006, perhaps one of the most peaceful in terms of relations with the law, Vick, in response to supporters of the New Orleans Saints who punzecchiavano, he showed them the middle finger with both hands: the obviously what caused an immediate and inevitable penalty, with 10 thousand dollars payable to the League and another 10 thousand to donate to charity. In early 2007, last year, and beginning the long legal ordeal, he had delivered a bottle of water in plastic to the Miami International Airport: it contained a secret compartment, however, empty and devoid of any traces of banned substances (the player said that it was a safe place to store jewelry and other valuables). A long series of mishaps, some accidental and random, others, directly leads to dissennato lifestyle, which is not unusual for a star of the multi football. Nothing, however, so serious as to leave an indelible stain on the national curriculum vitae of Michael Vick. Who, at worst, if he was always off with a fine, a fine sport, or no more than a reproach, as when, in 2007, lost ... to directly connecting the Capitol, where he had promoted , in front of members of Congress, the increase in funding for afterschool programs related to American students (not even to himself scheduled breakfast in Congress with honor attached to his private foundation, withdrawn from his mother).