The Dallas Morning News is reporting that a man from Texas, David Jacobs, supplied the former Falcons quarterback with steroids when he played for the team. Jacobs is being identified as a Plano steroids trafficker, but there’s a twist: Jacobs is dead.
The news outlet says Jacobs killed himself and his girlfriend in June 2008, but before committing suicide, he admitted to being at a party with Vick and other Falcons players who used his drugs, a rather odd suicide confessional.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture documents detailing the investigation into Vick’s dogfighting involvement, the QB was questioned about a conversation he allegedly had at the Atlanta Falcons’ annual Christmas party in December 2006.
“An informant from the Drug Enforcement Administration supplied information that during the party, Vick had a conversation with an unnamed person about steroids,” the documents reveal. “Vick was reportedly overheard telling the unnamed individual that he liked his product.”
Vick denied the conversation and any use of steroids or human growth hormones, leaving the allegations as pure conjecture. And with the accuser no longer having a voice, mum just may be the right move.
If true, the news could be the final nail in an already quite secure coffin, but with that said, it could simply have no effect on swaying public opinion of the embattled, but optimistic QB one way or the other. –gerald radford
