ATLANTA, Georgia. Quarterback Michael Vick, who made an obscene gesture at Falcon fans last Sunday, says he will continue to express his feelings but will make donations to local charities for each crude hand signal he makes.

"Vick passed for single-digit numbers in the first quarter."

"Those fans were booing me--they got what they deserved," Vice said of the uplifted fingers symbolizing a sex act that he displayed to spectators as he walked off the field following last week's 31-13 loss to the New Orleans Saints. "We're the Falcons, and I gave them the bird," the colloquial term for the one-finger symbol.

"Teach--your children well."

Vick will make a $5,000 donation for each "bird" to the Georgia Audobon Society for the protection of endangered species including the bald eagle. "If I grab my crotch or somthing like that, the money goes to a rape crisis center."

State bird of Georgia

Vick has threatened to drop his pants, a practice known as "mooning", if fans throw things on the field following a fumble or an interception. "If I do that, I'm gonna make a donation to the Christa MacAuliffe Educational Foundation."

Copyright 2006, Con Chapman