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Vick’s endorsement days may be over
He played quarterback like no other before him. Or since.
Michael Vick revolutionized the position with his electrifying speed, his bazooka of an arm and elusiveness that video games had difficulty capturing.
By the end of the 2004 season, three short years after Vick was the first overall pick by the Atlanta Falcons, he was the face of the NFL and had a new $130 million contract.
His likeness adorned the popular Madden video game. The “Michael Vick Experience” Nike commercial was all the rage. His jersey No. 7 was among the top-five sellers since he joined the Falcons as the first overall draft pick in 2001. And he had endorsement contracts with corporate giants Coca-Cola, Hasbro and Kraft, among others.
On the field, Vick marched the Falcons into Green Bay during the 2002 playoffs and handed the Packers their first-ever home-field postseason loss, helped Atlanta to the 2004 NFC championship game, and made three Pro Bowls in five years.
Now, it has all come crashing down in the span of 30 months as Vick, 27, and three others have been charged with sponsoring competitive dog fighting on property he owns in Virginia.
At worst, Vick, who will be arraigned Thursday in Richmond, Va., could face up to six years in prison. At best, Vick has lost the magnetism as one of sports’ most marketable and popular figures in the most precipitous fall from the NFL’s pedestal since Green Bay running back Paul Hornung, the Packers’ Golden Boy, was suspended for the 1963 season for betting.
“I don’t think there has been a guy in modern times that has fallen so far,” said former Dallas Cowboys executive Gil Brandt.
While Hornung’s bookmaking chipped away at the integrity of the game, it didn’t come close to stirring the emotions of Vick’s alleged atrocities, especially among the estimated 73 million dog owners in the United States.
“This is as bad as it gets,” said Bob Dorfman, a San Francisco endorsement expert who publishes the quarterly Sports Marketers Scouting Report.
“There is something about messing with pets that strikes the wrong chord in America. In the grand scheme of things, is it worse than a DUI, is it worse than rape allegations? … But there is something about this which rubs everybody the wrong way, and it stands out more than a DUI, which seems like every other player in sports is getting these days.
“And the allegations of the cruelty and how these animals were killed make it even worse.”




