On Monday, the long-awaited end to former Virginia Tech star football player Michael Vick's 23-month jail sentence arrived. Vick now faces great uncertainty about his future as an NFL player.
Vick spent the last two months at his home in Hampton under home confinement to complete his federal sentence for dogfighting.
According to Associated Press reports Vick met with federal probation officials to take care of all paperwork and finalize his release Monday.
Vick did not initially show enough remorse to satisfy U.S. district Judge Henry Hudson.
The 29-year old Vick made an apology in 2007 in court, but Hudson denied him an "acceptance of responsibility" credit that would have reduced his sentence. Instead Vick had to serve his 23 months in prison, longer than any of the other three co-defendants.
He declined to answer any questions from the media upon leaving the courthouse from filing his paperwork.
The next step for Vick is meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who has made it clear he would wait until Vick's entire sentence was complete before beginning to consider Vick's reinstatement to the league.
No time has been reported of an actual face-to-face meeting between the two, and with most NFL training camps opening up in the next week, it is unlikely Vick will be at any team's camp when it begins.
In early June, the Atlanta Falcons, the only team Vick played for since entering the league in 2001, released him after failing to find a partner for trade.
Vick did not initially show enough remorse to satisfy U.S. district Judge Henry Hudson.
The former Hokie legend made an apology in 2007 in court, but Hudson denied him an "acceptance of responsibility" credit that would have reduced his sentence. Instead Vick had to serve his 23 months in prison, longer than any of the other three co-defendants.
If Vick does not get picked up by any NFL squad, the newly-formed United Football League, which will play its games on Thursday and Friday nights this fall, culminating with a championship game from the four-team league on Thanksgiving night, has made it clear they would love to make Vick a part of their league for all of the publicity he would attract to the league.
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