Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Vicks' Publicist Pulls a Kim Etheredge
Yesterday Michael Vick was about to turn it all around. After all the bad publicity (Ron Mexico, water bottle, flipping the bird) he was about to receive some good publicity. Or at least that was the plan...
The Falcons quarterback was scheduled to lobby on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade lawmakers to increase funding for after-school programs. But Vick missed a connecting flight in Atlanta and failed to show for his Tuesday morning appearance.
Vick's publicist, Susan Bass, said it wasn't his fault. The quarterback was in Tampa, Fla., on Monday to play in teammate Warrick Dunn's charity golf tournament, then caught a flight to Atlanta that was supposed to arrive in time for him to make another flight to Washington's Reagan National Airport.
But the AirTran flight was late leaving Tampa, Vick missed his connection and wound up stuck in Atlanta, Bass said.
``He was really mad,'' she said. ``He was on the plane and everything, but the plane didn't come in until late.''
Not only was it bad enough that Vick missed his flight but AirTran claims that Vick wasn't even scheduled for the supposed flight that he missed.
AirTran, which has an endorsement deal with Vick, gave a different account of Vick's travel arrangements. While acknowledging that the flight from Florida was late getting into Atlanta, causing him to miss his 8:35 p.m. connection, airline spokesman Tad Hutcheson said the player was booked on a 10:50 p.m. flight.
Vick failed to show and the flight left Atlanta with about 20 empty seats, Hutcheson said.
To get caught in a lie like that, wow. I really think Bass needs to enroll with Kim Etheredge in Publicist 101.
The Falcons quarterback was scheduled to lobby on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade lawmakers to increase funding for after-school programs. But Vick missed a connecting flight in Atlanta and failed to show for his Tuesday morning appearance.
Vick's publicist, Susan Bass, said it wasn't his fault. The quarterback was in Tampa, Fla., on Monday to play in teammate Warrick Dunn's charity golf tournament, then caught a flight to Atlanta that was supposed to arrive in time for him to make another flight to Washington's Reagan National Airport.
But the AirTran flight was late leaving Tampa, Vick missed his connection and wound up stuck in Atlanta, Bass said.
``He was really mad,'' she said. ``He was on the plane and everything, but the plane didn't come in until late.''
Not only was it bad enough that Vick missed his flight but AirTran claims that Vick wasn't even scheduled for the supposed flight that he missed.
AirTran, which has an endorsement deal with Vick, gave a different account of Vick's travel arrangements. While acknowledging that the flight from Florida was late getting into Atlanta, causing him to miss his 8:35 p.m. connection, airline spokesman Tad Hutcheson said the player was booked on a 10:50 p.m. flight.
Vick failed to show and the flight left Atlanta with about 20 empty seats, Hutcheson said.
To get caught in a lie like that, wow. I really think Bass needs to enroll with Kim Etheredge in Publicist 101.
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Being Michael Vick's publicist... that's got to be a tough job.
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