The mystery of Randy Choate's Wikipedia page: Solved

You will recall the news that the Cardinals recently signed veteran LOOGY Randy Choate to a three-year pact. Not long after said news, a sketchy Internet rumor circulated that Choate was of pop-culture royalty.

This, for a time, was within the unimpeachable pages of Wikipedia before the dark forces of quality assurance scrubbed it from history ...

For those in need of an action-video reminder, there's this ...

That, friends, is Mabel Choate, mother of Randy Choate.

Of course, those among you with a slavish devotion to the bounds of reality will point out that it's impossible for a fictional character -- one Mabel Choate -- to conceive, carry and give birth to an actual person -- one Randy Choate. This doesn't merit a response, mostly because I don't have one.

But then there's this bit of grim reportage ...

Choate confirmed that the story on his wikipedia page is not true. Laughed, said his mom might get offended by it, but he loves it.

— B.J. Rains (@BJRains) December 7, 2012

OK, fine.

Instead, I'll assume that Randy Choate's grandfather was central to a circumstance of frontier justice most foul.

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