AOL Sports is reporting: [1]
You can’t buy a Michael Vick [2]jersey anymore. You can’t buy his Nike [3]shoes, you can’t buy Vick-related apparel from the NFL’s online shop [4] and you can’t buy his stuff at sporting good stores.
So the Vick dog chew toy [5] is just about the last thing you can purchase with Vick’s name on it.
Writer Michael David Smith goes on to explain that the likeness isn’t officially authorized, but…
…the NFL might not want to call any more attention to the Vick case, and Vick’s lawyers have more important things to do right now.
In other words, the alligator theory. (When you’re up to your backside in alligators it’s a little difficult to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp) in this case, his lawyers are going to have loaded plates for a long time.