Organizer: Michael Vick ‘Celebration’ Postponed

A hometown celebration for Michael Vick in Virginia has been postponed. An organizer for the “Michael Vick Community Celebration” scheduled for Saturday said the job-hunting former NFL quarterback informed him Monday he could not appear at the Newport News event because of a conflict.

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Published: August 4, 2009

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A hometown celebration for Michael Vick in Virginia has been postponed.

An organizer for the “Michael Vick Community Celebration” scheduled for Saturday said the job-hunting former NFL quarterback informed him Monday he could not appear at the Newport News event because of a conflict.

President Andrew Shannon of the Peninsula chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Vick told him he had a commitment in Atlanta with the Humane Society of the United States. He did not know if the event was public.

A spokesman for the Humane Society did not immediately return a telephone message left by The Associated Press.

Vick has been conditionally reinstated in the NFL after completing a 23-month federal sentence for running a dogfighting ring.