Michael Vick is going to jail with a 23 month sentence plus 36 months of probation afterwards.  Considering, the NFL will pass its own suspension after that.  Earliest possible return maybe 2010.  Will the NFL still want him?

From ProFootballTalk.com

POSTED 10:59 a.m. EST; UPDATED 11:17 a.m. EST, December 10, 2007

VICK GETS 23 MONTHS

ESPN reports that Judge Henry Hudson has sentenced Falcons quarterback Mike Vick to 23 months in jail.

The sentence is five months longer than the 12-18 months that prosecutors recommended, and that the federal sentencing guidelines seemed to indicate.

Vick also received three years of probation, which means that he'll need to stay out of trouble for 36 months after his sentence ends.  If not, he'll go back to jail.

Under federal law, he'll be required to serve 85 percent of the term, and if he behaves while in jail he'll be eligible for an early release.

That's 19.55 months, which means that Vick won't get out of jail until early June of 2009, at the earliest.

The question then becomes whether the NFL imposes a finite suspension on him after he gets out of jail.  A one-year suspension would make him eligible to return to the NFL in 2010.  At that time, he'll be 30 -- and nearly four years removed from playing football at the professional level.