Michael Vick’s return to the NFL was ordinary at best. The moments before it happened, though, lifted his heart and made his day. For the record, Vick carried once for 7 yards, threw two incompletions and either handed off or was a decoy on eight other plays in Philadelphia’s 34-14 win over Kansas City in the quarterback’s first regular-season action since serving an 18-month prison term on a dogfighting conviction. As the national anthem played, Vick let his mind go over his downfall over the past 33 months. “I am thinking about everything I have been through,” Vick said after the game. “I am thinking about my grandmother, who I lost in prison and what she would think.” Vick’s grandmother, Caletha, died during his incarceration. “I know she would have been proud of me,” Vick said, noting her memory pushes him every day to return to being a great player. The Associated Press
