When it was first reported that players from Division II school Virginia State had viciously attacked the opposing team’s QB of the school there were set to play the following day, it came as a shock. It just seemed incredulous that anyone would be stupid enough to commit such an act. However, Larry Brown Sports is now reporting that Winston-Salem’s QB Rudy Johnson spoke out and showed the media the black eye he received when according to him several Virginia State players decided to jump him at a luncheon that Winston-Salem held for their players prior to Winston-Salem/Virginia State matchup.
According to Johnson, this was how the horrible ordeal happened:
“Are you the starting quarterback?” Johnson says the Virginia State players asked him.
Johnson says they were talking some trash at that point. He told them he was going to wait until the game to let his play do the talking.
“I’m not going to talk a lot of trash, we’ll just see you on the field,” Johnson says he said.
Then he says he was jumped by about five or six players.
“I’m going to wash my hands and somebody tapped me on my back, on my shoulder. As soon as I turn around, I got hit,” Johnson recalled on Monday. “So I square him up, and then when I square him up, somebody else hit me on my blindside, on my head. And that’s when I fell and I felt about four or five feet stomping on me, kicking.”
Johnson says the Virginia State players scattered after his teammates came out of the bathroom stalls and that there was a lot of commotion after that.
“I can’t even explain why it happened. I’m in shock, still.”
Virginia State has been declared ineligible to continue in the playoffs and one of their players, Lamont Britt, has been charged with misdemeanor assault.