First, I really didn’t believe Gregg Easterbrook’s claim that you could still buy a Rae Carruth Panthers jersey. Swell.
But Easterbrook is exactly right about that. However, just about everything else he writes about the Michael Vick case is wrong. Other than you cannot buy a Vick jersey. NFL says no.
There is simply no excuse for Vick’s behavior — not being a celebrity at 16, not bad legal advice, and most of all do not even begin to bring up race. Easterbrook does, of course.
The absolute proof that Vick is no victim? Ronald Curry, a Tidewater peer and gentleman who will be playing in the NFL long after Michael Vick goes to prison.