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What might have been

By AJ Mass
ESPN.com

Monday, December 10, 2007

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been"' -- John Greenleaf Whittier This is how it ends. With the sentencing of Michael Vick for 23 months, the other shoe has finally dropped. His release from prison is scheduled for October 2009, so it's safe to assume that the earliest Vick would return to the NFL is 2010. If Vick wanted to pursue that course, he'd be doing so not as an energetic, able-bodied youngster but as a 30-year-old who'd spent the previous ...

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