ESPN - Vick gets 23-month sentence on dogfighting charges - NFL

Well, it sucks for him. But it still allows him to salvage his career if he plays it right. He needs to stay in top shape, mature as a person, and figure out how to best show it when he gets out.

If he can do those things, then I'd welcome him to QB for a team with a cat mascot... i.e. the Lions.

It's apparent now (and has been obvious for a while) that even if he gets a few months knocked off for good behavior, he still won't have any chance of returning to the NFL until the 2009 season at the earliest. But if the league applies an additional suspension after he gets out, he might not even be eligible to play until 2010. Given how stiff the sentence turned out to be, maybe the league will leave it at that and not suspend him at all, but it's tough to say at this point.

He will be out before 2009 training camp begins.

Nice to see he even gets a stiffer sentence than federal guidelines suggest AFTER agreeing to plead guilty. I wonder if I should be reading between the lines there.

Besides, he'll end up in the CFL because the NFL will go out of its way to make an example of him and never let him back on the field.

yeah i'm with the low...gotta read between the lines between this one. looks like the govt. is trying to make an example of him too.

Apparently there were some noises last week about how "the government believes Vick has not been forthright in his debriefs with them, and they may push to have Vick sentenced on the upward end of the sentencing guidelines." Though I'm not sure that had anything to do with the sentencing in the end (if indeed it was true, which it might not have been), seeing as how the other guys in the case got pretty stiff sentences as well.

On the other hand maybe he will expand his non football business endeavors while he is a guest of the Feds.

He wouldn't be the first or last person to expand his/her business connections while spending time as a guest of the feds.

Not saying he will or won't but it certainly is a possibility.

With his sentence probably ending in May of 2009, he certainly has the opportunity to be ready for the regular season. (Federal prisoners can be released with 85% time served for good behavior.) I feel he will be a changed man once released and will totally pursue other interests. Prison time will allow him to seek other venues in which to spend his money. Hopefully, he'll lay low and buy a Dairy Queen............

Or maybe he'll put together a team of prison inmates in a game against the guards.