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Crime in Sports

#18 - More Ted Bundy Than Gandhi - The Wasted Potential of Tom Payne

Crime in Sports

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

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4.925.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week, we bring you a man who had the potential to be both a sports, and cultural icon, after he was the first black player on the University of Kentucky basketball team, then moved on to the NBA. Instead, the only thing he contributed to culture was guest starring on an episode of Night Court... and persistent, heinous violence. Let's just say that he's not quite Jackie Robinson.All of this, plus... In Their Own Words, Mistaken Identities, and the Silver Haired Middle Aged Man of the week!! Break the color barrier, pull on your high tops, and go directly to jail with Tom Payne!! Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!

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0:21.0

I'm here with my co-host. I'm Jimmy Whistman. First of all, I want to tell everybody thank you for listening. We had a really good week. A lot of people tune in this week which is new ones. New people. Different countries. It's awesome. Thank you guys so much. We love you.

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1:42.0

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1:58.0

We're going to be a little bit more supportive of us. We're going to be a little bit more supportive of us. And we're going to be a little bit more supportive of us.

2:13.0

And it has nothing to do with we talked about, but it's the culture of the place. We talked about Carlton Dotsen a few weeks ago. Go back and check that out. How many huge corpses are found in Texas that episode. And it was a murderer in Texas. And it turned out they went a lot deeper than the murder. The coach got fired. It was a big scandal. And all this stuff. It was deep. We got into it in the episode. Well, it's the balers back in the news again. They can't stop.

2:39.0

Whole athletic department strip to the bone. Sex scandals. Hors houses. Assaults. It's a fucking disaster. So we get into that one. I can't. Eventually. Not today. Eventually. We'll get into that down the road. It just happened. We don't know.

2:54.0

It just happened. So yeah, but that was going to give you an update on balers still fucking up. And if you want to hear about their their the culture of baler a little bit, you can hear the Carlton Dotsen episode. And you also get to hear about a guy who killed his teammate and tried to bury him in the desert.

3:10.0

Nothing else. So that's wacky. But I definitely let's get started here. Our guy today. Oh my goodness here. This is a fun one. This is a this is a crazy one because culturally this is say the word culture again, but like this is a wacky episode. I yeah, I had to I had a cover.

3:29.0

I can't I can't fucking wait for this. It's time to begin guys. Tom pain to his face Jimmy's laughing because it's Thomas Robert pain June. Of course. Guys stop.

3:42.0

What the fuck stop it. How does it keep happening? This guy had no indication. This is what happened. His father's family. It's not their fault. No, no, a bunch of other children that turned out wonderfully. This is a top notch family. This guy was the one that fucks up is the one he named to you. Of course. It's every time. That's what's going to get you. Stop naming your kids after yourselves guys. But this one is a crazy case. Yeah. And he didn't murder anybody, but it's worse. Yeah.

4:11.0

And he's the way he is just an awful person. And the way he could have not been an awful person. He could have been this guy could have been an icon.

4:23.0

And somebody not a sports icon even too, but like a culture. He could have been like a Kareem Abdul Jibar. He could have mattered. He generations. He could have mattered.

4:32.0

Right. Once again, culturally. And instead he chose to be a complete and total waste of any culture or society that was in front of him. He's born Thomas Robert pain Jr. Born November 19, 1950. Born in California.

4:49.0

Yeah. The family moves to Kentucky when he's a child. Now he where he was born. He was the longest baby ever born in the hospital. He was in.

4:58.0

Because he's huge. This guy grows up to be. Wonderful. Yes. Seven foot two. We're talking. He's a gigantic human being. This will come up later to his height in his case and everything else. Born 3 foot six. Born. Yeah. He was. Yeah. I kissed by his poor mother. Good Lord. But it made a lot of sense.

5:14.0

Well, he's the oldest of nine children. But after him, they were probably flying. Like, yeah, it's a water slide. There's shooting out there, you know, with a bathing suit and some swimming zone just firing right out. No problem after this. His father was a master sergeant in the US Army.

5:29.0

Oh wow. And then he has no. No fucking around man. No messing around. No fucking around. And he's got nine kids. So that shit is kept in line or else the house is going to be on fire constantly.

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