WAIT...THIS IS ILLEGAL?
We don't know what's going to happen in the November elections, but we'd like to come right out and say that we're supporting whatever party decides to embrace the American tradition of personal liberty and keeps college football video game stabbing legal. (HT: AUAlum, for the following story.)
James Rodney Wilson, who we bet a plugged nickel uses all three names or calls himself "J-Rod," and his cousin Lance Eugene Borchert, both over thirty, finished an epic Auburn-Tennessee game late Saturday night where Borchert's Volunteer team defeated Auburn, most likely with the four-wide "deep attack" play, because either the slot post or the little out to the sideline is always open. Or maybe curl flats, because that's damn near unstoppable, especially with that post route up the middle...
Ahem. At any rate, J-Rod (yeah, that's what he calls himself,) decided to even the score after his defeat with a "deep" attack of his own on his cousin. He walked into the bedroom where Borchert was asleep with his wife and put a 12-inch knife into his cousin's back, puncturing his lung.
The best slice from the Decatur Daily article:
"At first, the victim didn't know he had been stabbed," the sheriff said. "He thought he had been hit. I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel he would have lived. He went to the hospital with the knife still in his back."
...Blakely said after the stabbing that Wilson ran from the Borchert home into nearby woods. He said dogs from Limestone Correctional Facility helped track Wilson, and authorities arrested him at 3:15 a.m.
Ahh, sounds just like holidays at the Swindle household.

Release the hounds!
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I think it was a producer for “The Jerry Springer Show” who said ‘if it weren’t for California, New York, Texas and Florida, our type of show wouldn’t exist.’
Maybe he instead meant to say ‘and everything BETWEEN Texas and Florida.’
by SeaTrojan on Oct 3, 2006 1:02 PM EDT reply actions
I actually have met James Rodney Wilson (I’m from Athens), and I can assure you he uses all three names.
Both those guys are on the “No Checks From” list taped the register at every convenience store in Limestone County. Classy Folks.
by Rabo Karabekian on Oct 3, 2006 1:06 PM EDT reply actions
I think some investigative follow-up is required of the Decatur Daily.
The sheriff said he didn’t know for sure which man was the Volunteers or Tigers. “But I can only assume Wilson was on the losing end,” Blakely said. “The screen was still on when we got there with the score up. It showed Tennessee winning.”
by OhioDawg on Oct 3, 2006 1:08 PM EDT reply actions
. . . thus confirming everything I’ve ever thought about Auburn fans and Tennessee fans. Stories like this are a Bulldog’s dream come true.
by Doug on Oct 3, 2006 1:26 PM EDT reply actions
Is it even illegal in Alabama to stab a Vol fan ?
by BamaCPA on Oct 3, 2006 1:41 PM EDT reply actions
I’m really surprised that neither of them has the middle name of ‘Wayne’. Check out the amazing relationship between the name Wayne and criminality….
by baconboy on Oct 3, 2006 1:43 PM EDT reply actions
That guy must have been talking mad trash. It must have been one hell of a game.
by Odell 51 on Oct 3, 2006 1:48 PM EDT reply actions
I’ve noticed it more with Dwayne, but that was in Texas. Funnily enough, I’m not the only one.
by Newspaper Hack on Oct 3, 2006 1:49 PM EDT reply actions
Lord knows, old Wilson will probably get off if he is family, because sticking it in your cousin is legal in Alabama
by tiggercub on Oct 3, 2006 2:19 PM EDT reply actions
Stabbing a Vol fan in Alabama is only considered “wreckless endangerment”…it also depends on how credible the secret witness testimony is….I say he’ll get 5 years probabtion, which is good considering he was staring down the barrel of a gun.
by Mike on Oct 3, 2006 2:22 PM EDT reply actions
This whole thing has to be made up by some bamster mullet. No way in HAYELL that Auburn loses to UT, even virtually with goober and gomer playing.
by Bart Simpson on Oct 3, 2006 2:28 PM EDT reply actions
True story from UGA/UT game in 2000: After the dogs put the beatdown on the Vols, I witnessed two Vol fans beating the hell out of each other. Cops broke it up, and asked what was the problem. Answer: “He’s my brother, he’s drunk, and he won’t get in the car.”
by Tron Jackson on Oct 3, 2006 2:47 PM EDT reply actions
That’s nothing.
You should see what I do to Mrs. Gamecock after she tops my high score in Pitfall.
by gamecocktony on Oct 3, 2006 3:18 PM EDT reply actions
It’s rather sad that a Bulldog’s dream coming true involves a UT and AU fan getting in a fight. If I were a Bulldog (thank my neurons for holding themselves together without the aide of spirochetes), my dream would probably involve beating AU and UF in the same season.
Cheers to BamaCPA, for the best comment in this thread so far.
by NewAZTiger on Oct 3, 2006 3:29 PM EDT reply actions
What are the odds the prison dogs already had J-Rod’s scent memorized from a previous manhunt?
mmm … Funyuns and Mad Dog …
by Erik on Oct 3, 2006 5:22 PM EDT reply actions
Cerberus, Southern-style.
He’ll roll over if you give him a pig’s ear, tho.
by The Conscience of a Nation on Oct 3, 2006 6:28 PM EDT reply actions
At the risk of getting all grammar police here:
“He walked into the bedroom where Borchert was asleep with his wife..”
Whose wife was Borchert sleeping with? Borchert’s, Wilson’s, or an unindicted co-conspirator’s? Since this took place in Alabama, is it reasonable to believe that all three are possibilities?
by milevin on Oct 3, 2006 6:41 PM EDT reply actions
If you are going to steal links from Deadspin, at least credit them.
by JoeyT on Oct 4, 2006 5:27 PM EDT reply actions
Hey, Joey. Tuesday comes before Wednesday.
by Orson Swindle on Oct 4, 2006 5:43 PM EDT reply actions
What I meant to say is…if Deadspin is going to steal, they should credit you….yea, thats the ticket.
by JoeyT on Oct 4, 2006 7:15 PM EDT reply actions
i didn’t know the boogers and viles hated each other. I figured they stuck together since everyone else hates them.
by deaconblues on Oct 5, 2006 1:58 AM EDT reply actions
What does being stabbed in the back have to do with being classy?
by lynne on Oct 24, 2006 3:59 PM EDT reply actions
First of all, the stabbing wasn’t over a football game. There are some facts to this story that were not told. Lance Borchert is the husband of Rodney’s cousin and NO he doesn’t go by all 3 names nor are their names taped to registers. This isn’t a joke to all family members involved. It’s sad to know that people find amusement in the mishap of someone else’s life.
by Luke316 on Oct 24, 2006 10:14 PM EDT reply actions
Thank you Luke316 for getting the story right. I am the wife of Lance Borchert and NO it isn’t funny at all. Why don’t all of you wait until Lance gets out of the hospital and tell him how funny you think this is. He IS someone’s husband, father, brother, and son.
by lynne on Oct 25, 2006 10:03 AM EDT reply actions
Ok, I’ve been reading this blog too long…
I can’t tell if Luke and Lynne’s comments are honest (I mean, what are the chances they happen to be reading today, especially if their husband/friend was just stabbed… you’d think they’d be busy), or if their comments are some new hip form of blog comment joke that I’m behind the curve on.
by PeterPumpkinhead on Feb 23, 2007 1:15 PM EST reply actions

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