Although he doesn’t often rank among the greatest players of all time, Michael Vick had that potential because of his talent.
A two-year prison term for operating a dog-fighting ring destroyed his career.
However, he ranked second in the NFL’s Offensive Player of the Year voting and earned the NFL Comeback Player of the Year in his first season as a starter following his sentence.
It wasn’t by happenstance that Vick was selected first overall. And the reason Johnny Manziel has referred to Vick as the “GOAT” is because he was the first quarterback in history to sprint for 1,000 yards in a season.
Shedeur Sanders sees himself as a cross between Vick and Tom Brady, while Michael Penix, the new quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, recently said he looked up to Vick as a comrade.
People refer to Vick, who appeared on the cover of Madden 2004, as the greatest character in the history of the video game “all the time.” Best of all, though, he never took on the role of himself.
In a recent interview with the News,, Vick quipped, “I tried to be too much like myself.” Sometimes it was realistic. They were almost there.”
