ATLANTA (AP) – Michael Vick never led the Atlanta Falcons to the Super Bowl.
His career with the team ended in disgrace.
Yet no one is rooting harder for the Falcons to win their first championship.
“A lot of people are surprised when they find out how passionately I’ve been rooting for the Falcons this season,” Vick wrote in a more than 4,300-word letter posted Wednesday on The Players’ Tribune. “They assume that there is some sort of tension between us, some level of bitterness. And even when I tell people that it isn’t the case … I have a feeling they may not exactly believe me.”
Vick was perhaps the most dynamic player in franchise history , a quarterback who revolutionized the position with both his passing and running skills.