what is the scandal about photos of michael vick drinking alcohol?”
Tony Dungy, the former NFL coach who has served as a mentor to Michael Vick of late, addressed a photo this weekend that shows the Eagles’ quarterback drinking in a Philadelphia airport bar. “Michael, you can’t do that,” Dungy said to SI.com. Vick was seen in the recent New York Post photo drinking vodka and pineapple juice. It wasn’t immediately clear when the photo was published whether Vick was violating conditions mandated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. In a letter to Vick upon his reinstatement July 27, after a two-year prison sentence for his participation in a dogfighting ring, Goodell wrote that “prohibitions regarding drug and alcohol use” were included.
Michael Vick did not violate the terms of his probation nor the conditions of his NFL reinstatement when he drank an alcoholic beverage on the night after his first practice since being released from prison, an Eagles spokesman said yesterday. The day after Vick’s return to the field, a report in the New York Post described the new Eagles quarterback “sipping on a Grey Goose [vodka] and pineapple juice” at the Riverbend Bar & Grill, a restaurant at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott. On July 27, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell detailed the conditions of Vick’s reinstatement in a letter. He wrote that the former Atlanta Falcons player, who was incarcerated for 18 months on a dogfighting conviction, was “required to abide by the terms of the supervised release that were imposed on you by the court, which include not committing any further crime, limits on who you may associate with, prohibitions regarding drug and alcohol use, possession of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, and forbiddi
