Merry Christmas, Michael Vick!

Or Festivus, or Hanukkah, or Christmakwanukkah or whatever. Michael Vick just got a contract extension until 2013, which is also worth $100 million (including a $37 million in guaranteed money), and damn it, he deserves it. How old will he be when his contract expires? A whopping, whopping, 33 years old. Just old enough to get another blow out contract before he retires. I don't care what anybody says about Vick's playing ability, what he has done to revitalize the NFL scene here in Atlanta is priceless. Owner Arthur Blank is a marketing genius. I mean, the Falcons actually have sell out crowds now! We couldn't even pull that off when we went to the Super Bowl. Everything from the uniform and logo transformations, to the purchasing of the Arena Football team, the Georgia Force, are all part of the way Blank has marketed the team with Vick at the helm. Could you imagine these kinds of changes being made in San Diego? I don't think so. Besides, another 9 years of mediocrity are much better than another 9 years of sucking ass. Who knows, we might even get a Super Bowl ring in there somewhere. On a sad note, it just makes me miss the Ted Turner empire of the 1990s.

As an aside, where the hell did all of this "Christmas controversy" come from? It just came from nowhere. Wherever it came from, it sure has O'Reilly flustered.