The Genius of Marcus Vick

Amazing. I tried to imagine what goes on in the head of Marcus Vick while reading about his gun show at McDonald's, but I don't know if I could ever really understand it. Here's a guy "forced" into making millions of dollars a year earlier than expected after getting kicked off the VaTech football team and this is what he does the next day. To quote the great Will Ferrell (a.k.a. Alex Trebek) in a Celebrity Jeopardy skit on SNL, "I'm speechless." Even though I never bought into the hype about him possibly being better than his brother, the guy's still an unbelievable athlete.

Quick side note: I can imagine what kind of kids these were. I ran into one the other day who about plowed my mom over at a sporting goods store while she was standing still in an aisle, then acted like it was her fault. No apology and no respect at all. And this wasn't exactly the best day to be teasing Marcus Vick, but come on ...

You're Marcus Vick and these are just three stupid teenagers at a McDonald's. Let it go. Maybe it's just me, but I thought the fact that it happened at McDonald's was hilarious. Here's a guy about to be a millionaire and he gets arrested at a McD's, the absolute bottom rung on the restaurant ladder. I wonder if one of the part-time cashiers tried to get his autograph on a Big Mac box as they were putting him in the squad car. We can only hope that happened.

Anyway, I think we can go ahead and add Marcus the Leg Stomper into the category of "History's Dumbest Athletes". A couple other members include:
Eugene Robinson: Safety for the Atlanta Falcons who was arrested for solicitation of prostitution the night before Super Bowl 33. The best part is that same morning, Robinson had just received the Bart Starr Award for "high moral character". As Bill Simmons from ESPN.com likes to say, "you can't make this stuff up".
Albert Belle: The guy could hit a baseball, but what I'll always remember him for is when he picked up that foul ball down the left field line in the 7th inning of a game and drilled a heckler in the chest with it. That and the fact that he once chased trick-or-treaters off his property IN HIS SUV. And also the time ... well, I could go on for awhile with this, so let's stop here.