{"id":10030,"date":"2014-04-28T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10030"},"modified":"2014-04-28T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T19:37:29","slug":"michael-vick-to-wear-no-8-with-new-york-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/28\/michael-vick-to-wear-no-8-with-new-york-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vick to wear No. 8 with New York Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelvick.jpg\" alt=\"michaelvick\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelvick.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelvick-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/michaelvick-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nSigned by the New York Jets during the offseason, Michael Vick will now have to change his jersey number.<\/p>\n<p>Vick has worn the No. 7 since his NFL career began but last season Geno Smith was selected by the Jets and took the No. 7. A year later the team signed Vick.<\/p>\n<p>The choice for Vick came down to either No. 3 or No. 8. <\/p>\n<p>Other &#8220;famous&#8221; Jets to wear No. 8: punter Greg Gantt (1974-75), quarterback Tom Flick (1987), quarterback Browning Nagle (1991-93), kicker Nick Lowery (1994-96), quarterback Todd Husak (2002), and Mark Brunell (2010-11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signed by the New York Jets during the offseason, Michael Vick will now have to change his jersey number. Vick has worn the No. 7 since his NFL career began but last season Geno Smith was selected by the Jets and took the No. 7. A year later the team signed Vick. The choice for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,45,31,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-vick","10":"tag-new-york-jets","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10031,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}