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Vick will attend Week One game as spectator in Carolina


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Vick will attend Week One game as spectator

Posted by Mike Florio on September 9, 2009 4:35 PM ET

When the Eagles played their first preseason game with Mike Vick on the roster, we reported that Vick wasn't taken to Indianapolis because the team didn't want to expose Vick to a potentially hostile reaction in another team's venue.

We were shouted down by folks who claimed that Vick was staying home simply because it's coach Andy Reid's longstanding policy to not bring to road games players who aren't eligible to play in the game.

So, of course, for the team's first regular-season road game, Vick will be traveling to Carolina, despite the fact that he's not allowed to play in the game. And despite Reid's hard and fast, no exceptions rule.

"Michael will travel this week," coach Andy Reid said Wednesday. "Michael will travel."

Since he's suspended for the first two games of the season, Vick won't be permitted to join the team on the sidelines.

In our view, Vick is making the trip to Charlotte primarily because the reaction to him hasn't been nearly as negative as many thought it would be. And if the Eagles believed in August that the reaction to him wouldn't have been negative in Indianapolis, Vick would have been there, too.

Regardless of Reid's rule.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. flame away

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No one in the stadium will even see him, and neither will anyone at home, unless they put him on TV in whichever box he's sitting in.

you better believe that cameras are going to be on the look out for him and when he is it's gonna show up on the screen.

someone is going to find him.

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in olden times you would just look for the only guy in the owners box wearing a doo rag, but apparently he's changed his ways.

I'm really happy they've let him back in the leauge and given him a second chance, i really hope the fans find him and give him a good heckling (hopefully they're not led out of the stadium!).

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