Vick 速く becoming persona 非,不,無 grata
Last updated at 14:51 29 July 2007
Upper Deck has 除去するd all Michael Vick-autographed memorabilia from its online 蓄える/店 and will 除去する the 起訴するd quarterback's 貿易(する)ing card from NFL 始める,決めるs that are scheduled to be 解放(する)d in October.
The 告示 (機の)カム a day after Nike 一時停止するd its lucrative 契約 with Vick and Reebok took the 前例のない step of stopping sales of his No. 7 jersey. Another 貿易(する)ing card company, Donruss, 発表するd it was pulling Vick's likeness from any new packs.
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The 最新の 攻撃する,衝突する to Vick (機の)カム two days after the Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded not 有罪の to 連邦の 空中戦/乱闘ing 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s in Richmond, Virginia. In the 起訴,告発, he was (刑事)被告 of sponsoring a gruesome 操作/手術 that often 発射, hanged, 溺死するd or 電気椅子で死刑にするd losing dogs.
"Of course we 高く評価する/(相場などが)上がる the fact that Mr. Vick is innocent until proven 有罪の, but the 主張s alone have resulted in an outpouring of very strong emotion within our organization and の中で the collecting community," Kerri Stockholm, Upper Deck's director of marketing, said in a 声明.
"We believe collectors will agree and support this 決定/判定勝ち(する) as 存在 the best course of 活動/戦闘 for our football 商売/仕事."
Items pulled from the online 蓄える/店 含む autographed footballs, helmets and jerseys.
Since Vick has not been 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of any 罪,犯罪, Nike left open the door to 再開する its 商売/仕事 関係 with the 星/主役にする player if he's acquitted. The company already had decided to 一時停止する 解放(する) of his fifth 署名 shoe, the 空気/公表する Zoom Vick V.
"We do believe that Michael Vick should be afforded the same 予定 過程 as any 国民 in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs," the Nike 声明 said. "Therefore, we have not 終結させるd our 関係."
Vick 調印するd with Nike in 2001, the same year Atlanta chose him as the NFL's No. 1 全体にわたる 草案 選ぶ. He led the Falcons to the NFC 選手権 game during the 2004 season and last year became the first quarterback in league history to 急ぐ for 1,000 yards.
Vick is 閉めだした from the Falcons' training (軍の)野営地,陣営 while the league 調査/捜査するs his 活動/戦闘s for possible 違反s of its new personal 行為/行う 政策. He is 始める,決める for 裁判,公判 Nov. 26 and 直面するs up to five years in 刑務所,拘置所.
The 事例/患者 began April 25 when 捜査官/調査官s 行為/行うing a 麻薬 search at a 大規模な home Vick built in 田舎の Virginia 設立する 66 dogs, 含むing 55 炭坑,オーケストラ席 bulls, and 器具/備品 typically used in 空中戦/乱闘ing.
They 含むd a "強姦 stand" that 持つ/拘留するs 積極的な dogs in place for mating and a "breakstick" used to 調査する open a dog's mouth.
PETA -- People for the 倫理的な 治療 of Animals -- called off its planned 抗議する at a dozen Niketown 蓄える/店s across the country next week.
"関わりなく Vick's 犯罪 or innocence in a 法廷,裁判所 of 法律, the facts in this 事例/患者 明確に support this 決定/判定勝ち(する)," PETA said. "No company wants a spokesperson with a 大規模な 違法な 空中戦/乱闘ing (犯罪の)一味 operating on his 所有物/資産/財産, 関わりなく his level of 関与."
The Humane Society of the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs said the companies couldn't ignore the 圧倒的な 対立 to having any 協会 with Vick. He said some 165,000 e-mails were sent to Nike through the group's Web 場所/位置.
"I think there's a direct 関係," said Wayne Pacelle, 大統領,/社長 of the HSUS. "We asked them to do this and the 圧力 continued to build, 特に as the facts of the 起訴,告発 (機の)カム out. It 簡単に became an untenable position."

There was no 即座の 返答 from the Vick (軍の)野営地,陣営. An after-hours phone message was left with his スパイ/執行官, Joel S egal, while 不成功の 試みる/企てるs were made to reach his new 弁護士/代理人/検事, Billy ツバメ, by phone and e-mail.
Although Reebok does not have a 商売/仕事 関係 with Vick, the Massachusetts-based company serves as the 公式の/役人 供給者 of apparel and 器具/備品 to all 32 NFL teams. Through that 取引,協定, it 持つ/拘留するs the coveted 権利s to sell jerseys at the 小売 level.
"We just find the 主張s very upsetting and very 乱すing," Reebok spokeswoman Denise Kaigler said. "While this is just the beginning of the 合法的な 過程 and we know that it has to have time to run its course, we felt that making this 決定/判定勝ち(する) now was important and the 権利 things to do."
Reebok said it also was willing to take 支援する any unsold Vick jerseys that are returned by 小売 出口s.
Kaigler said she already had received 非常に/多数の e-mails in support of the 決定/判定勝ち(する). Even though 非常に/多数の NFL players have run afoul of the 法律, this is the first time Reebok has stopped sales of an individual jersey.
"The number of e-mails and 声明s we're getting from 消費者s was pretty telling about how 乱すing people find these 主張s to be," Kaigler said.
Beckett マスコミ 報告(する)/憶測d on its Web 場所/位置 that Donruss dropped Vick's card at the 命令 of owner Ann Powell, whose five dogs …を伴って her to work every day and have 事実上 解放する/自由な 統治する inside the company's (警察,軍隊などの)本部.
"If anybody who knows about the 現在の Vick 状況/情勢 knows Donruss, they know that this is a 決定/判定勝ち(する) we had to make because of Ann and her love of dogs," company 広報担当者 Scott Prusha told the Web 場所/位置. "This 決定/判定勝ち(する) (機の)カム straight from Ann."
Donruss had an autograph 協定 with Vick, and much of the company's 計画(する)s for the 残りの人,物 of the year 含むd the insertion of both autograph and memorabilia cards 耐えるing the quarterback's picture.
Prusha said that "wasn't even a consideration. We met as a company and the idea was brought up to pull him. There was no 対立 from anybody in the room."
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