Now this is what I call a "real football fanatic"! (See article)
BAMA will kick aubarn's a$$ thru their elbows! UA 20 - au 13 ...... RTR -VO- ......................... MITCH ALBOM: Better to sit in jail than miss the game November 21, 2003 BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST The judge called it "the most unusual request I've ever had." The defense attorney said, "I've never heard anything like it." Even the crook admits he never tried anything this brazen. Then again, it is Michigan-Ohio State weekend. "The first thing he wanted me to do," said defense attorney Tully Rogers, "was to get him out on bond so he could watch the game. He promised to come right back. I said, 'I don't think the judge is gonna go for that. Maybe we can come up with something else.' " What's a crook to do? Jeff Renne, up on forgery charges, thought about the bad checks he'd written. He thought about the punishment, two years in prison. But mostly, he thought about -- as most sports fans do -- the TV reception. And he made up his mind. "I am guilty, your honor," he told the judge. He then said he would accept his sentencing, right there, on the spot, if the judge would grant him one request: Let him stay in the local jail through the weekend, rather than send him to the pre-prison reception center. The local jail has television. The center does not. And Renne -- before going up the river -- wanted to watch the game. ...snip... (more)
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