Just when I thought that everyone was doing what they were supposed to, someone had to go and screw it up. So, for the third straight week I have the honor of awarding someone the title of “Knucklehead of the Week”. I crown Carleton Tinker the prize. Tinker is a football dad of one of the Alabama Crimson Tide’s National Championship team. He was also the last person to touch the beautiful crystal trophy before it fell from its pedestal and shattered. The trophy is estimated at eight pounds and valued at $30,000.
He said that everyone was picking up just to get the experience of being able to lift it up. “At night, as I went to sleep, every time I closed my eyes,” Tinker said, “I kept seeing it roll off and hit the floor. That marble floor in the trophy room — it wasn’t going to be a soft landing. It shattered. It spread out all over the place.” Why don’t people understand the old saying “curiosity killed the cat”, or this case, knocked over the very valuable trophy. Luckily, Tinker can laugh about it now.
