Tickets to Vick's Eagles debut in Atlanta selling fast

By MIKE MORRIS

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

If you want to cheer -- or boo -- Michael Vick in person when the Philadephia Eagles play the Falcons on Dec. 6, you better move fast.

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Tickets for Vick’s potential return to the Georgia Dome playing field were selling briskly the morning after the former Falcons quarterback signed with the Eagles.

Falcons officials, while not giving sales figures, said there had been a jump in sales for that game Friday morning.

“We never provide specific numbers on how tickets are going, but for obvious reasons, we’ve seen a spike in single-game ticket sales for our Dec. 6 game against the Eagles,” said Reggie Roberts, the team’s vice president of football communications. “That game is very close to being sold out.”

At 8 a.m. Friday, the online ticket reselling site StubHub.com was advertising 2,931 tickets available for the game, already the fewest number of tickets for sale on the site for any of the Falcons games beyond the season opener against Miami.

By 9 a.m., the number of available tickets for the Falcons-Eagles game had dropped to 2,663. By comparison, StubHub showed more than 4,000 tickets available for the New Orleans Saints game the following week.

In other online merchandising related to the breaking Vick news:

• The NFL’s merchandising Web site, nflshop.com , was already offering for $79.99, a replica of Vick’s Eagles jersey.

• If 80 bucks is too steep for Vick supporters, an eBay merchant Friday morning was selling a t-shirt for $9.99 exclaiming, in large green letters, “FORGIVE VICK, Go Eagles.”

• On the flip side of the coin, another eBay seller was offering an updated version of a Vick dog chew toy. The 6.5-inch, $14.95 toy, which had portrayed Vick in striped prison garb, now has him in his new Eagles uniform.