UFL commissioner wants Michael Vick to play in new league
The United Football League is hoping to debut in August of this year and maybe attract a fan or two. UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue figures one way to do that is to recruit a big name from prison, err, the NFL.
Last year, UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue was candid regarding his league’s desire to offer an opportunity to Falcons quarterback Mike Vick, who might very well be suspended for a year (or more) after being released from federal custody in July. Last month, Huyghue backed off considerably, suggesting that the UFL would bow to the will of the fans. Are there any? Apparently, there are — and Huyghue apparently has consulted with them. And they apparently want Vick. According to Howard Balzer of the Sports Xchange, the UFL is believed to be plotting a run at Vick. The only potential impediment would come from a decision by the Falcons, if they don’t release him, to invoke the language in his contract preventing him from playing in any other league while on suspension. But assuming the Falcons don’t cut Vick, perhaps they’d be able to conjure a trade market for 2010 by letting Vick run circles around the slappies that will be populating the UFL.
It won’t matter if the UFL gets Vick, Joe Montana and Hershel Walker to play – it’s doomed. I don’t understand why these leagues think they can compete with the NFL. Why would you start your season in August with the NFL starting its season in September? If you want to have any chance of succeeding, play in the spring when people are in their Super Bowl hangover and would watch any kind of football. It just doesn’t make any sense to go head to head with the most popular league in the world.
That said, trying to lure Vick to playing in the league isn’t a bad idea by Huyghue. He has a new product and needs to draw attention to it – any form of attention. Regardless of whether or not people hate him, they’ll still tune in to see how Vick will look in pads again. It’ll be interesting to see whether or not the Falcons release him by that point and he catches on with the new league.
In award-winning tattoo artist and Pit Bull activist Brandon Bond’s new film Vicktory to the Underdog, Brandon takes the unusual and highly controversal stance that Michael Vick deserves a second chance. Vicktory to the Underdog is a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of rescued Pit Bulls, including several of the Vick dogs, and the process of socializing them after a lifetime of torture and abuse.
Rather than focusing on the dog fighting problem, the movie sheds light on solutions leading to “Vicktory” for all the characters in the movie, including heavily tattooed people, parolees, Pit Bulls and anyone who society has turned their back on through ignorance and prejudice. The film explores second chances and expresses the opinion than even Michael Vick deserves one, a highly controversial perspective within the animal rights community.
The documentary, which will debut at the Great Pit Ball in the Brenden Theaters at the Palms Casino, an all-day charity event on March 14 in Las Vegas to save Villalobos Animal Rescue Center, the largest rehabilitation facility for abused Pit Bulls in the world, features several notable names, including Bob Barker (“The Price is Right”), Danny Trejo (From Dusk Til Dawn, Heat) and Senator Chip Rogers, who just passed a bill in Georgia to make dogfighting a felony.
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Thanks Nicole – you brought a lot to the table of this discussion about Vick possibly joining the UFL…