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Tennessee Football Players Learn Criminal Ways From Showtime's 'Weeds'

by Chris Littmann • Nov 12, 2009 12:55 PM EST

By now you've heard about three Tennessee football players being nabbed for attempted armed robbery. The best detail continues to be the fact that their getaway car was a 2010 Toyota Prius. Sure, it's an eco-friendly way to terrorize Knoxville, but there are other benefits, as U-Turn taught us on Showtime's Weeds. (NSFW language in the clip.)

You see, they just wanted to make a slow, quiet getaway, even if one of the guys was dumb enough to be wearing Tennessee gear while it all went down. (Note: This is the most brazen choice of apparel in an incident involving a weapon with an athlete since Chris Henry's infamous gun incident when he wore his own jersey, which is still the standard bearer.)

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No weapon, but the true criminal standard-bearers were the Florida State football players who robbed a teammate’s apartment in May 2006:

"A police source said that among the items investigators found at [victim]‘s home was a wide receivers glove with "1," Rouse’s former jersey number, stitched into the inside of it.  The glove had been left under a color television that had been thrown onto the floor."

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2464554

by bveo12 on Nov 12, 2009 1:16 PM EST reply actions  

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