KU Football Suffers 25K Penalty After Rock Chalk Pocket Knife Porky Pie

A quick linguistic lesson is actually more fun than this football season foible . . .

"Porky pies" is a Cockney rhyming slang term for "untruths", derived from the phrase "porky pie lie" where the second word, "pie", rhymes with the original word, "lie". The plural form "porky pies" is often used to refer to a collection of false statements or a series of untruths, and it's considered a light-hearted and informal way to call someone out for not being truthful. 

And now here's what could be the start of traveling music for the coach in question . . .  

The University of Kansas was fined $25,000 by the Big 12 after it found head football coach Lance Leipold made "an inaccurate statement" about a pocket knife that was found on its sideline during a recent game.

Leipold said a pocket knife "was thrown and hit one of our staff members" during the Jayhawks’ 42-17 loss to Texas Tech on Saturday. Texas Tech officials confirmed a pocket knife was found on the Jayhawks' sideline and were investigating game-day video. The Big 12 did not clarify which part of Leipold's statement was inaccurate.

However, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that Texas Tech's review, which was sent to the Big 12, said the "best possible video available to us" showed a Kansas "student athlete" pick up the knife and immediately hand it to a Kansas staff member.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas fined $25,000 for coach's 'inaccurate statement' about pocket knife hitting staffer in Texas Tech game