Today's Biggest Idiot

There are some stupid people out there. Few are as moronic as Marcus Vick, former starting QB for national championship contender Virginia Tech. After many run ins with the law and suspensions from the football team, Vick, a junior, finally got his chance to start for the Hokies this year. Only a late season collapse dashed the turkeys' title hopes. Vick finished the season with decent stats and an All-ACC selection.

Then he stomped on an opponent's knee in a bowl game...and got ticketed for speeding and driving with a suspended license. VA Tech officials had enough and dismissed him from the team. Shortly thereafter Vick declared for the NFL draft. Vick's brother, if you hadn't guessed it, is Falcons' QB Michael Vick, a bonafide NFL superstar.

Question: what would you do with potential NFL riches awaiting you, a history of bad behavior weighing your draft stock down, and several months remaining before the NFL draft? What I would do is find a respected NFL draft advisor and do whatever he told me to. If that meant joining a monastery until the draft, count me in. Marcus Vick took a different strategy.

First, he tried to keep secret his traffic incident from the school, and failed. Then he cheap shot an opponent in a bowl game, a stomp that could have ended that player's career. Next he got himself dismissed outright from his college team because of the aforementioned...the latest and last straws in a history of bad behavior. He declared for the NFL draft. And promptly...got arrested for brandishing a handgun at a bunch of teenagers in a McDonald's parking lot. I kid you not.

Vick, 21, turned himself in to the Suffolk magistrate's office yesterday after three warrants were issued for his arrest. He is accused of waving a firearm at three teenagers during an altercation in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant Sunday night. Suffolk police said the parents of a 17-year-old boy reported that Vick pointed a handgun at their son and two others.

Some NFL team will no doubt take him in the draft because of his talent and pedigree. But the above incident is bush league, if not powder puff. What kind of thin skinned baby needs to brandish a firearm because some kids were taunting him? What kind of lame brain would throw away thousands of dollars in NFL gold to defend his low self esteem in front of arches made of "golden" french fries? Marcus Vick, that's who. A kid with incredible talent, but no intellect. A kid, definitely not a man, who seems intent on throwing it all away.