{"id":323799,"date":"2011-03-20T02:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/vick-visits-prison-vows-to-continue-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T02:29:27","slug":"vick-visits-prison-vows-to-continue-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/vick-visits-prison-vows-to-continue-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Vick visits prison, vows to continue (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45.2735426009\">\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP)\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/phi\/\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> quarterback <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/5448\/\">Michael Vick<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/5448\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> will be<br \/>\nactive this fall, whether there is football or not.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined on Saturday by former NFL coach Tony Dungy and 35 volunteers<br \/>\nfrom Tampa-area Abe Brown Ministries in visiting about 1,000 inmates at a prison<br \/>\nin Avon Park, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Vick says it was his first visit to a correctional facility since he served<br \/>\na 23-month sentence in federal prison for bankrolling a dogfighting ring.<\/p>\n<p>He is optimistic that there will be football next season. But even if there<br \/>\nisn\u2019t, Vick plans to continue to follow his Christian faith and give back to<br \/>\ncommunities by visiting prisons with Dungy and on his own.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5fa07e91adServer.bs_1-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nfl\/SIG=11o262scb\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news?slug=ap-vickbanquet\" title=\"Vick visits prison, vows to continue (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vick visits prison, vows to continue (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> TAMPA, Fla. (AP)\u2014 Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (notes) will be active this fall, whether there is football or not. He was joined on Saturday by former NFL coach Tony Dungy and 35 volunteers from Tampa-area Abe Brown Ministries in visiting about 1,000 inmates at a prison in Avon Park, Fla. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vick visits prison, vows to continue (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/vick-visits-prison-vows-to-continue-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vick visits prison, vows to continue (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"TAMPA, Fla. 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