The Trick Play - Ron Weaver

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1990s, a bizarre sports scandal unfolded: a 30-year-old man named Ron Weaver was impersonating a college football player. Using a younger acquaintance's identity, Weaver played at a junior college and then successfully transferred to the University of Texas. Just before the Sugar Bowl, a newspaper exposed the fraud, revealing that "Ron McKelvey" was actually a much older man who had exhausted his NCAA eligibility years ago. His deception unraveled, leaving a shocked team behind and raising questions about identity, obsession, and how far one person would go to chase a dream.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media
0:02.6	Igniting Conversation
0:04.4	Welcome to true come to go.
0:14.4	What can I get for you?
0:16.0	Yeah, it's almost fall time.
0:17.5	Give me some chili and some football crap.
0:20.9	It's got to be crime related.
0:21.7	Give me football crime.
0:24.8	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.1	Welcome to true crime to go.
0:33.5	I am John here with Jamie and it is almost football season.
0:37.7	How freaking pumped are you?
0:39.1	I can tell you definitively that a drive-thru worker does not like football.
0:43.0	Well, she can get over it.
0:44.9	Give me my chili.
0:45.9	Give me some football and a little bit of crime.
0:47.9	How about it?
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:49.6	You sent me this a few weeks ago and just wild seems like something out of a movie.
0:55.8	So excited to dig into the details and see what actually happened.
0:59.6	Why don't you get us rolling?
1:00.6	We're going to be talking about a football player who went by the name, Ron Weaver.
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