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Subject: Football
Category: Sports and Recreation > Team Sports
Asked by: jwoods210-ga
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Posted: 13 May 2004 11:00 PDT
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Question ID: 345879
What is michael vick's 40 yard dash time?

Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 13 May 2004 12:22 PDT
I don't have anything current to 2004 but I did find references to his
official times recorded in th elate 1990's and in 2000 if these will
work for you.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
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Subject: Re: Football
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 12 Jun 2004 02:51 PDT
 
Dear J Wood, 

The answer is not that simple as you might have imagined ;-) 

The data on 40-yard-dash times is usually very shady and unreliable. 

The most official information comes from an ESPN article, and is
pretty old: "At a rookie mini-camp last weekend, Vick ran the 40-yard
dash in 4.36 seconds, the fastest time among the 19 draft picks and
college free agents at the mandatory camp."
(SOURCE: ESPN, "Vick signs record $62M deal", May 8 2001,
<http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/2001/0508/1193460.html>). A more recent
ESPN article (Nov. 2003) describes him as "a quarterback with a
sub-4.3-second time in the 40-yard dash" (SOURCE: Len Pasquarelli,
"Despite mistakes, Vick rises to the occasion", ESPN,
<http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1458814.html>).

Before that, in 2000, a site places him with 4.25 (Jimmy Robertson ,
"Hokies record blistering 40 times at annual timing day", March 8,
2000, <http://www.hokiesports.com/huddler/archive/0382000aaa.html>).

In 2002, an article on the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder goes even
further. "when you can run a 4.1 40-yard dash, that is as close to
flying as humanly possible" (SOURCE: Larry Fitzgerald, "Atlanta wins
just in the Vick of time", Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, 12/4/2002 
<http://spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=19553&sID=42>).

This latest discussion on Fortified Iron places him with something
between 4.2(!) and 4.4, but also posts a FoxNews article claiming that
there is no way he even managed to get that legendary 3.6
<http://www.fortifiediron.net/invision/index.php?showtopic=3934&st=25>.

His fan page doesn't include any record faster than the 2000 4.25 
(Michael Vick, Game-by-Game, <http://www.21cent.net/vick/gamebygame.htm>). 

In other words, the most official record listed is 4.36; this is not
the average time it takes, of course, just a record.

I hope this answered your question. Please contact me if you need any
further clarifications on this answer before you rate it.

Search strategy: "michael vick" "40 yeard dash" time 2004
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