Oh, Snap! Hank Baskett Released, Michael Vick Signed.
Philadelphia, PA – It’s a good thing that Hank Baskett just got married and has a baby on the way. It’s especially lucky that he exchanged wedding rings with a former Playboy playmate, so he won’t be bored. He and Kendra Wilkinson can enjoy their life on reality TV and kick back, and maybe somebody else will sign him before he gets really tired of hearing his new bride’s extraordinarily annoying laugh. He has to understand that it might take more time than that, especially since most of the world said “Hank WHO?” until he got engaged to one of the chicks from that “Girls Next Door” show about her and two other blondes who all acted as Hugh Hefner’s harem. Then he was on the cover of US Weekly.
Now we will forever know him as The Guy Who Got Pushed Out by Michael Vick.
"Baskett's Got His Playmate. Can I Just Have the Ball?"
It is important to note two things:
1. I love animals. I brake for animals. I feed street cats and love emails full of cute baby animals. I worked for the SPCA. I consider my cats to be my children (no stretch marks, though!) I generally prefer animals to people.
2. I believe in second chances. Michael Vick committed a crime, went to prison, served his time, and is now actively educating children about why cruelty to animals is wrong. If we are to believe that our justice system can work, we have to believe that Michael Vick can be rehabilitated. And that he was.
That being said, it still has to be chapping Hank’s basket something fierce that the guy who got his roster spot is an ex-con. I’m sure he has difficulty seeing it any other way. But he became expendable when the Eagles picked receiver Jeremy Maclin in the first round of April’s draft, and then grabbed Brandon Gibson in the sixth, a roster spot was going to open up.
The fact is that Vick probably won’t be seeing that much time on the field during games. He can’t play Sunday because the NFL suspended him for the first two games of the regular season as the final punishment for the dog-fighting ring. After that, while Donovan McNabb nurses a cracked rib, Kevin Kolb is next in line. Jeff Garcia has been signed to back up Kolb in case something happens to him. Basically, a lot of people have to go down before Michael Vick is a starting Quarterback.
When the Eagles signed him there was the expected picketing and booing. Some fans threatened to give up their tickets, but, magically, none of them have. After a month, Vick’s jersey was the fourth-highest seller in the NFL behind Brett Favre, Jay Cutler, and Troy Polamalu. Considering the sales period is from April 1 to August 28, Vick a lot ground to make up, since both he and Favre joined their teams only last month, while Cutler and Polamalu have had all year to sell jerseys.
Now Michael Vick can get back to doing what he loves: playing football. Hank Baskett can rattle around in a large house with a domestically-impaired pregnant former Playboy model.
Neither one is likely to be unoccupied.