Marco Pappa has become embroiled in the weirdest soccer scandal since Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena's little tiff regarding sex tape-blackmail.
Th Rapids midfielder was reportedly stabbed in the abdomen in Seattle in December, and according to reports the culprit is alleged to have been Miss Washington USA, Stormy Keffeler.
Police are reported to have found Pappa bloody in an apartment in Seattle, the blood coming from a stab wound.
No one from either camp is commenting on the story, and apparently Pappa and Keffeler have different stories regarding what happened, so we are left to speculate as to what actually happened. Keffeler also has a recent DUI arrest, so we suggest the state of Washington pick its beauty pageant representatives more carefully in the future.
Keffeler resigned her crown, which, fair enough.
As we understand it, and we can't be bothered to look it up, female preying mantises rip the heads off their male partners after mating, so it's possible Pappa got off easy here.
We can certainly think of worse people to be stabbed by.
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