Everyone ready for some damn Football? We're about to enter the 'dead zone' where all teams go on break, (maybe it's already started?) but we've only got a few weeks until training camp starts and then before we know it it'll be time to draft our fantasy football teams and get back into the swing of things.
As for my Jaguars, they've done a lot of work in the offseason trying to avoid some blackouts, here's the current situation we face:
http://www.jaguars.com/fuel/images/0624-100pct-2.jpg
Unfortunately, we haven't sold our tickets out. I know this still may seem like a dream to those of you who aren't from around here, but this organization is still very young, and a city the size of Jacksonville (800k-1m) is still one of the smallest markets in the league, and a 7-9 (4 game-row loss) last season isn't helping that much; However, the draft picks are looking to have panned out pretty well, and the spirit in Jacksonville is pretty high once again.
But, we'll see how far it can ride out.
Unfortunately for Michael Vick he has once again gotten himself into the news, but this time for a shooting outside of a night-club a few nights ago.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5345973
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Police say Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has not been ruled out as suspect or person of interest in a shooting investigation in Virginia Beach.
Police spokesman Adam Bernstein said Thursday police did not look at Vick, or anyone else, as a possible suspect immediately after the shooting early Friday because detectives had not begun their investigation. The shooting came shortly after Vick's birthday party at a club ended.
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Bernstein said police will not discuss specifics of the investigation and that no one has been named as a suspect or arrested. He declined to characterize Vick's status in the case.
"I don't want to say either way as to what his involvement is," Bernstein told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Everyone wants me to give him a label because of who he is."
Vick's attorney, Larry Woodward, did not immediately return phone messages left Thursday.
Police have not identified the shooting victim, but Woodward said it was Quanis Phillips, a co-defendant in the dogfighting case that sent Vick to federal prison.
One condition of Vick's probation is that he is not allowed to be in the company of other felons. Woodward said Phillips was not invited to the party and that he and Vick had no interaction.
Woodward also said his client, a former star with the Atlanta Falcons, left the party at least 10 minutes, and perhaps as many as 20, before the shooting took place.
However, Allen Fabijan, spokesman for Guadalajara Mexican restaurant and nightclub, said Wednesday that Vick left the club just minutes before the shooting.
Fabijan said that time-stamped footage from a surveillance camera outside the entrance of the club shows a car with Vick inside leaving at 2:07 a.m. ET -- about four minutes before the shooting a block away. He said that Vick was traveling in the direction of where the shooting took place.
Police said their first 911 call reporting the shooting came in at 2:11 ET.
Fabijan said police have asked the club not to release the video to media, but he allowed the AP to view the grainy footage. Vick's face is not discernible.
Phillips was released from a Virginia Beach hospital Saturday. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison in the dogfighting case after detailing for authorities his and Vick's role in the operation.
Vick, accompanied by Woodward, was interviewed by detectives in the case Monday.
The NFL and the Eagles have said they are looking into the matter.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told Vick when he reinstated him that his margin for error was "extremely limited."
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He's such a damn fool. He has been given a huge break by being let out of jail early. And on top of that, he has been given this opportunity to play in the National Football League once again, and now his name is resurfacing? What a moron. If he turns out to be somehow involved in this shooting he's going back to prison and completely wasted such a valuable opportunity. |
