The Albany Firebirds offered suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick a $200, per week salary in order to join their team. Too bad the owner or general manager of the team didn’t know about it.
Earlier in the day, the team an arenafootball2 franchise, announced it had offered the 28-year-old quarterback a one-year contract at the league standard: $200 a week plus a $50 bonus for a win.
“That’s a joke,” Robb said. “Can you imagine him playing for $200 a week? I think (the offer) was a big mistake.”
The announcement was later pulled from the team’s Web site.
Firebirds general manager Garen Szablewski told The Times Union the team’s marketing department came up with the idea to make an offer to Vick.
“The process wasn’t thought through properly,” Szablewski said. “The right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing.”
Think somebody got fired for this one? I don’t even think Vick made less than $200,000 to walk out of the tunnel for games in the NFL.
