Tommy Tuberville may be in more trouble than just the sideline warning he received on Saturday night. You remember his tirade….the one when he threw his earphones down in front of the head linesman referee and had to be physically restrained by Will Muschamp? Unfortunately for him….and maybe also for all Tiger fans….this may not be the only penalty or repercussion that Tuberville receives. Throwing a HUGE wet blanket over our red-hot celebration of a classic victory, it looks like there may be more punishment on the way. Evidently, Tommy Tuberville is being accused of violating State of Florida Code 24-143-79b.c (1) a.
Call him the best coach in the State of Alabama. You can’t argue that point. Call him a winner against the best. He’s 9-1 against top ten teams since he’s been at Auburn. Call him the Riverboat Gambler. Though of late, he hasn’t shown that as much, it is hard to look at his career and say that he isn’t. The one thing I thought I would NEVER hear said about him was the term “Felon”. Or worse, if he is convicted, “Convicted Felon”.
Yes, according to Florida Code 24-143-79b, which regulates the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission, it is a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to $150,000 fine, according to subpart c(1)a “to….tease, harass, molest, capture and/or kill alligators.” The law goes on to say that “controlling, regulating, managing and/or owning alligators is strictly regulated and solely controlled by the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission.”
Tommy Tuberville may in fact be found guilty of all of the above. Controlling Gators. Owning Gators. Killing Gators. If and when a jury looks at the facts as laid before them, it would be very, very difficult not to find him guilty. And all it takes to find a person guilty in a court of law is to find them guilty beyond a “reasonable doubt.”
Look at the evidence. Tuberville brought an almost 20 point underdog into the nesting ground of the state of Florida’s protected reptile…the swamp….and systematically controlled, managed, owned and ultimately kicked the life out of it’s precious nest of baby gators. Where was bull gator when they needed him? (Someone said coaching another team against Mississippi State earlier in the day).
And if that evidence isn’t enough, his cohorts in crime….following the death dagger through the goalposts of the little cold blooded lizards hearts….teased and harassed the “left-for-dead” gators by doing their own version of the “chomp chomp”.
Fortunately for Auburn, Tuberville crossed state lines during the night and is now out of the jurisdiction of the great state of Florida. Maybe, and hopefully, they will choose not to prosecute him, but rather try to forget him. After all, there was another legal term at work on Saturday night. Tuberville brought it with him from Auburn, and left it in The Swamp. It’s called double jeopardy. The shape the gators found themselves in about 11:30 p.m. Saturday night after losing the second straight time to the Auburn Tigers.
War Eagle!
WJLaneSr
2 comments:
great post
It was a great game, and the gators were eaten alive by a bunch of tigers. The weiner (Urban Meyer) took a cheap shot on a freshman with the timeout, but it was his bun? that was bitten.
Looks like more fun coming in the future games.
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