You can keep Vick; we don't want him

[Flash]

The CFL no longer accepts players under suspension by the NFL. We'll call it the Tricky Ricky Rule ...

http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/Football/2007/08/23/4440181-sun.html

Forget about Michael Vick playing in the Canadian Football League.

Vick's speed and sprint-out style look ideal for the CFL, but the Atlanta Falcons quarterback at the centre of dogfighting charges will not be allowed to play in Canada if -- as expected he is suspended by the NFL.

A rule approved by the CFL in the off-season bars clubs from signing players who are under suspension in the NFL. The rule was adopted in response to the Toronto Argonauts' signing last season of running back Ricky Williams, who was serving a one-year suspension for drugs.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to wait until Vick enters his plea in court Monday before deciding whether to suspend the quarterback. He has been barred from the Falcons' training camp, and Goodell has asked the club not to take any action until the league makes its ruling.

It is uncertain whether an NFL suspension would run concurrently with any prison term or take effect after he is released.

 

[GB-Hack]

I'd say good for the CFL. If an athlete gets suspended for whatever reason in one country, they shouldn't be able to play in another.

 

[slappy4428]

... his deportation to Canada and that country's subsequent refusal to accept him....

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Discussion at my shop last night predicts he lands in the af2 at some point ... if not the AFL.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Ok but only if you take Celine Dion back.

 

[Flash]

**** that ... no way, Jose!

 

[Sportsbruh]

The CFL is BENEATH Micheal Vick.

 

[Armchair_QB]

**** that ... no way, Jose!

Then ya gotta take Vick. It's only fair.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Now, about those MacKenzie brothers ... Think we could send you Barry Bonds for them? He's as big as them put together, so we'd consider it a 1-for-1 trade

 

[Flash]

**** that ... no way, Jose!

Then ya gotta take Vick. It's only fair.

I had successfully avoided the details of what was done with the dogs until I read the column under fire in JTO ... the man needs to die a firey, painful death. We will take Celine.

Now, about those MacKenzie brothers ... Think we could send you Barry Bonds for them? He's as big as them put together, so we'd consider it a 1-for-1 trade

You already have them, for heaven's sake! They busted through the border a long time ago ...

 

[Armchair_QB]

**** that ... no way, Jose!

Then ya gotta take Vick. It's only fair.

I had successfully avoided the details of what was done with the dogs until I read the column under fire in JTO ... the man needs to die a firey, painful death. We will take Celine.

Now, about those MacKenzie brothers ... Think we could send you Barry Bonds for them? He's as big as them put together, so we'd consider it a 1-for-1 trade

You already have them, for heaven's sake! They busted through the border a long time ago ...

If you don't want to take Celine just show us your rack and we'll call it even...

 

[Flash]

Sigh ... I'm not allowed to.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

there's always PMs (and I mean that in the nicest, most non-lascivious, non-sleazy, non-voyeuristic way possible ;D)

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

there's always PMs (and I mean that in the nicest, most non-lascivious, non-sleazy, non-voyeuristic way possible ;D)

What he said.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

The only pups that Canada wants to see killed are seal pups.

 

[DanOregon]

Isn't the Arena League also affiliated with the NFL making Vick persona non grata there as well? Hello National Indoor Football League.

 

[leo1]

what about that new mark cuban league? or one of those regional indoor football leagues (not the AFL or af2)?

 

[Sea Bass]

Perhaps he'll go to TNA?

 

[IU90]

Guess Lawrence Phillips and Ricky Williams taught em a lesson.

 

[Beef03]

He coudl still come in post-suspension, but then again we already have our share of athletic quarterbacks who can't throw the ball accurately to save their life.