... about this summer—usually a time reserved for languorous days at the baseball stadium and poring over reports from pro football camp and college football practice—is that it's been boring. 

Yesterday, the Philadelphia Eagles unleashed the perfect storm of this bizarre sports summer, making it rain on fans like Pacman Jones at a gentlemen's club when they announced the signing of Michael Vick, pushing him just ahead of the also fleet-of-foot Steve Young, circa 1988, as the most discussed and watched backup quarterback in the history of the pro game.

In fact, shortly after Vick's signing, he dominated the top trending topics on Twitter, usually a sign that one should check their pulse, given how celebrity death usually d...

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