September 12, 2005 Issue 127
	Michael Vick Given Separate Drinking Fountain at NFL Quarterback Club Originally posted 7/4/2005 Above: the shameful, shameful display outside the NFL Quarterback Club NEW YORK - Despite leading his team to the NFC title game last year and earning his second Pro Bowl berth at the position, fleet-footed Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons has long been dogged by suggestions that he is not a "real" quarterback. Vick suffered a related indignity this week when he was given his own separate "Vick Only" drinking fountain at the NFL Quarterback Club. "I have a dream," Vick told a rapt audience Saturday, "that one day, quarterbacks will be judged not by their low passer rating but by the content of their teams' win-loss records; I have a dream today." "The league has made a lot of progress," said commissioner Paul Tagliabue. "I can remember just fifteen years ago, when Randall Cunningham wasn't allowed to stay at the same hotel as the other quarterbacks. I even remember a restaurant that refused to serve Fran Tarkenton because they thought he broke too many tackles. That sort of thing would be almost unthinkable in today's NFL. The unfortunate events of this week, however, show that we've still got a long way to go." "Look here," said Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, "the position of quarterback is played a certain way, it's always been played that way, and folks 'round here would just as soon it stayed that way. You can wear a single-digit jersey number and take snaps from under center all you want, but you go rushing for 900 yards in a season and completing only 56 percent of your passes like Vick does, and it's pretty obvious where you belong." Quarterback Drew Brees of the San Diego Chargers agreed with Favre. "I don't want to be sharing a drinking fountain with Michael Vick," Manning said. "Some running back germs might rub off on me."
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