August 30, 2008 Michael Vick joined a bankruptcy court meeting on speaker phone from the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, on Friday, and he told his creditors that he expects to play in the NFL again, according to the Virginian-Pilot. My plan is to go back into playing football, he said, per the Virginian-Pilot.
August 10, 2008 It is "98%" sure that disgraced quarterback Michael Vick will be playing football in 2009. Not in the NFL, but in the start-up United Football League, the league's commissioner, Michael Huyghue, told SI.com's Peter King.
July 8, 2008 Michael Vick has filed for bankruptcy protection, according to the Sports Network. Vick filed Chapter 11 papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday, claiming to owe between $10 and $50 million to numerous creditors. The debt includes a $3.75 million pro-rated signing bonus that the Falcons are attempting to get back.
May 8, 2008 Michael Vick has been ordered to pay more than $2.5 million to the Royal Bank of Canada in a court order filed Wednesday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted a motion for summary judgment against Vick for default and breach of a promissory note from Jan. 18, 2007. Vick was found in default of $2,421,170.90. He also must pay interest of the rate of $499 per diem from Sept. 19, 2007 from May 7, 2008 a total of 231 days and a sum of $115,269. The order also states that Vick must pay the bank's attorneys' fees and costs in the amount of $11,950.97.
April 25, 2008 Embattled quarterback Michael Vick met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on this same weekend last year to inform him that his dogfighting issues were overblown. With Vick now serving a 23-month prison sentence for conspiring to run an interstate dogfighting operation, his agent Joel Segal met with the commissioner yesterday on behalf of his client, according to NFL.com.
