Animal lovers hoping Oprah Winfrey would lay into Michael Vick will have to wait a while—the Eagles quarterback has “postponed” his interview with the talk show host. “After careful consideration, I will need to postpone the taping of the Oprah Winfrey interview,” he said in a statement. “I admire and respect Oprah and hope to be able to participate in an interview in the future.” Considering there’s less than seven months left to the show’s “future,” and no make-up date has been announced, it sounds like the interview may not happen ever.
A source told Philadelphia’ Fox 29 that the Eagles made Vick cancel the interview, with the announcement coming the same day the team gave Vick a franchise tag, keeping him from speaking to other teams in exchange for more money. With the Eagles looking to make more of an investment in them, they might have felt the interview, which would undoubtedly cover the animal abuses that got Vick sent to prison, would bring them too much of the wrong kind of publicity. Will he keep his mouth shut and just play ball, or find a way to get to Oprah’s couch before she closes up shop?
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