Michael Vick’s jersey is subbing as a poop-picker-upper.
Apparently the value of Vick’s jersey has officially hit the zip-lock bag level as disenchanted fans have shipped their jerseys to animal shelters, who in-turn are using the cloth to pick up canine excrement.
When the bright red jerseys with the bold No. 7 started arriving in the mail, staffers at the Atlanta Humane Society were a bit surprised.
Today, however, about a dozen Atlanta Falcons football jerseys bearing the name and number of quarterback Michael Vick have been put to good use — as animal bedding or, even more likely, rags to scrub up the mess that dogs leave behind. [SOURCE]
This is eerily similar to the time when Colorado half-way houses for sex offenders started receiving Kobe Bryant jerseys from upset fans after his concierge incident. Number 8 was used indiscriminately as a jerk rag until the overwhemling, toxic aroma of a twizzler factory caused officials to go back to paper tissues.
