For anyone who was, Lochte’s tale has a familiar ring.
During 1992 training camp, a Dolphins nose tackle named Alfred Oglesby said he was kidnapped by two men at gunpoint and dumped in the Everglades.
Oglesby either was a terrible liar or a terrible math student, because once everybody started calculating how long it should have taken Oglesby to get back to civilization on foot, and once other details of his story failed to mesh, it became obvious it was total fabrication.
You probably can guess what really happened.
Oglesby had gone out drinking, got smashed, missed curfew and didn’t wake up until 9 the next morning.
Faced with the option of ticking off Don Shula or lying to him, Oglesby chose the latter.
“I was a little afraid,” he said. “I didn’t know what to tell Coach Shula. I really panicked. I didn’t want to lose my job.”
He did lose it, a few months later. But something else was lost in the process: veterans’ freedom to return home each night during training camp.
Needless to say, veterans were not happy and let him know one night while Oglesby was using a pay phone.
They taped him to a tree and left him there for a half-hour.
Meanwhile, teammate Shawn Lee grabbed the phone and told the female voice at the other end, “Alfred can’t come to the phone right now. He’s a little tied up.”
