Because I love busting on Mike Vick

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VICK SAYS WATER BOTTLE WAS FOR JEWELRY

In his first comments regarding a January incident in which a confiscated water bottle was found to contain a hidden compartment, Falcons quarterback Mike Vick says that the bottle was for a different kind of stash.

"It was a stash box [for] my jewelry," Vick said Thursday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "That's what I told everybody but that wasn't written. Everything else was written about the smell and all that. I sat in the airport for another hour and 30 minutes so if there was something they thought was wrong then they could have come and got me and we could have handled the situation accordingly right on the spot."

We don't buy this. At all. For several reasons.

First, why is Vick saying this on the day after Matt Schaub was traded? The incident occurred weeks ago. If the bottle was for jewelry only, Vick should have been shouting it from the rooftops. We think that this is all part of the concerted effort to clean up Vick's image, since he's now "the guy" in Atlanta for at least the next two seasons.

Second, no one ever disputed reports that the bottle smelled of marijuana. So unless Vick's jewelry smells of marijuana, his explanation doesn't make sense.

Third, we suppose that the "dark particulant [sic]" that was found in the compartment turned out to be a booger.

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