Who Let the Dog Out? Vick Walks Out of Prison

Michael Vick walked out of his prison at Ft. Leavenworth today to return to his modest home in Hampton Virginia to serve the remainder of his sentence at home.

From WMAL here:

A person familiar with the release details said suspended NFL star Michael Vick left a Kansas prison Wednesday for home confinement in Virginia, the latest step on a journey that he hopes will lead to his return to the NFL.  Vick left the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth before dawn, evading cameras and reporters who had staked out the building ahead of his expected released this week.

Vick had been serving a 23-month sentence for financing a dogfighting ring. He will spend the last two months of the term on electronic monitoring at his five-bedroom home in Hampton, Va.

The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is expected to be released from federal custody July 20, but he will be on probation for three years. He hopes to persuade NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to reinstate him.

Vick, once the NFL’s highest-paid player, will be allowed to leave his house to work a $10-an-hour job as a laborer for a construction company and for other limited purposes approved by his probation officer. He will be handed a new set of rules when he begins serving three years of probation after his release from federal custody.

So he’s going to be paving roads I suppose.  I really hope he doesn’t play in the NFL again, but you know he will, perhaps a couple of years as a bench warmer.  But I doubt he will ever get the major endorsements he once had.