Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was reluctant to throw away his 20-ounce water bottle at a Miami International Airport security checkpoint .

The reason, police say: The plastic bottle had a secret compartment that, when opened, had a dark residue and a pungent odor of marijuana.
This happened as Vick was boarding an 8:20 a.m. AirTran flight to Atlanta. First, when you sign a 10-year, $130 million contract, you shouldn’t be flying AirTran. Charter a jet … maybe Soul Plane. Second, where, exactly, do you get a water bottle with “a secret compartment” for weed? (If anything, Vick should be carrying around a bottle with a secret compartment for herpes cream.)
Vick balked when security at the checkpoint asked him to surrender his water bottle, which had an Aquafina label. Security regulations prohibit travelers from carrying bottles with more than 3 ounces of liquid through checkpoints.

Eventually, Vick left the bottle behind and went to his gate. But his initial reluctance to do so aroused the suspicion of Transportation Security Administration screener Gertrude Joseph. She pulled the bottle out of a recycle bin and notified her supervisor when she discovered its hidden compartment.
This all sounds kinda sketchy — like Vick was a victim of his fame — but it’s hard to feel sorry for a dude dumb enough to think sneaking pot through airport security is a good idea. Plus, anybody willingly photographed holding a blunt probably doesn’t think about such things.

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Some time between yesterday and today, the NFL banned the word “Ookie” and the word “Dog” from the back of jerseys in light of Michael Vick’s indictment related to dogfighting. Today, the site rejects anyone who hopes the league will put Vick’s nickname “Ookie” on the back of his number 7 jersey or any other team jersey for that matter.

When words that include “Ookie” or “Dog” are typed into the personalization database, a note pops up that says “Your current entry cannot be processed. Language deemed inappropriate, derogatory or profane will not be accepted. Please create a new entry.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that, in light of the current events, the words fell into the inappropriate category.

This is the second Vick nickname to be banned from the back of the NFLShop.com’s personalization site. In April 2005, didn’t allow fans who wanted to get the word “Mexico” on the back of jerseys. Ron Mexico was allegedly Vick’s pseudonym, according to a woman who sued him, when he went to get herpes treatment and testing.

***Simply brilliant!!!!!!

It was back on April 5 that Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was slapped with a lawsuit by a woman who claimed he gave her herpes. The suit alleged that Vick never told her he had the disease and that “he had not known how to tell her about his condition, and that it was not something that he liked to talk about.” Of course, the real takeaway from the story was that Vick, to hide from the public that he was receiving treatment for herpes, used the pseudonym “Ron Mexico,” which, as everybody now knows, is pretty much the funniest thing of all time.

Anyway, this was obviously the best story of April, . It was the perfect example of how sports media was hiding the best stories from us. ESPN, because of its contract with the NFL (Vick was/is one of the league’s most marketable players), completely buried the Ron Mexico story and just a month after the story broke, Sports Illustrated did a cover story on Vick without a single mention of the lawsuit, or Ron Mexico, or anything. It was the single most entertaining story of the first six months of the sports year, and the major sports media outlets just weren’t covering it.

So a tip of the cap to Mr. Mexico; we will do what we can to make sure your exploits are not soon forgotten.

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