The Falcons Got Vick; But Who Did the Eagles Draft in 2001?

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Published: August 26, 2009

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Even with his jail sentence, it doesn’t seem that long ago that Vick was a fresh faced rookie turning around a floundering Atlanta Falcons franchise.

A lot has changed since the first time I saw Vick stand on a football field in Philly—which was November of 1999, my junior year of college at Temple. I (and the 30 or 40 suckers…err, Owls supporters), who actually went to the game, saw Vick's alma mater, Virginia Tech, roll Temple 62-7.

Vick, who was a red-shirt freshman at the time, had 134 rushing yards, 171 passing yards and four total touchdowns—one of which was a 75-yard scamper where not a soul touched him.

And to think, he left halfway through the third quarter.

I was on ...

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