Wednesday, September 15, 2004

 

Party With Under-Age Girls! Rock Bottom Prices!


Marcus VickWanna get up to no good with some hot teenage girls? All you gotta do is come on down to Blacksburg, Virginia, where a night of all the underage action you want will cost you just a hundred bucks! Well, uh… that is, it’ll cost you just a hundred bucks if you are the quarterback of Virginia Tech’s prized college football team. It won’t hurt, too, if your brother is the quarterback for an NFL team:

Suspended Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick avoided jail yesterday by pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge stemming from a night of drinking with underage girls.

Vick, the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, settled on the plea agreement rather than pursuing an appeal of a juvenile-court conviction and 30-day jail sentence on three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

As part of the agreement, Vick received a suspended 30-day jail sentence, was fined $100 and ordered to perform 24 hours of community service. The judge also prohibited Vick from contacting the teenage girls who were at the party.

Vick was arrested in February with teammates Mike Imoh and Brenden Hill after an encounter with 14- and 15-year-old girls at the quarterback's apartment in Blacksburg, Va.

While Vick was acquitted of a charge of having sex with one of the girls, he had been sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $2,250 for the other charges. (emphasis mine.)


Yep, gettin’ up to no good with teens is pretty affordable in Blacksburg, VA… and Marcus Vick likes to keep the party rockin! Alan Smodic writes:

One would think that Vick would learn his lesson from one run-in with the law, but just last month he was pulled over in his car and eventually pleaded guilty to reckless driving and no contest to marijuana possession.

Many of us would give anything just to be known as Michael Vick's brother, let alone have at least half the football talent he possesses. The man who does, however, acts as if it is no big deal.

Imagine if you had been given a free education by a respectable university and a chance to play football at a winning program -- and then were suspended for a year because you couldn't stay out of trouble.


It’s no wonder that the internet is over-run with ugly, mocking parodies of the Virginia Tech football program.


Comments:
It's a good thing for Vick that he doesn't play at University of Kansas. I'd hate to think of how many extra laps he'd have to run for this offense.

Saul from Kansas
 
As a VT alum, I was of the opinion that we should have separated ourselves from Vick after the second criminal incident. I certainly think that the sentence is much too light, especially when you consider that your average non-football playing criminal would have gotten a year in jail for Vick's crimes.

Even though apparantly our judicial system has little integrity, the university has suspended Vick for one semester.

Vick wrote a letter to the university community after this suspension was handed down asking for forgiveness and stating a desire to return to VT after his suspension. Honestly, I thought that took a lot of courage. Since he has already redshirted, he will lose a year of eligibility by sitting out this year so he could have transferred elsewhere without it really costing him anything extra. Personally, I am willing to forgive and to welcome him back since he has asked for forgiveness. Time will tell whether he is seriously repentant or just sorry he got caught, but I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
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