NATION : Football Near-Widow Sentenced

HOUSTON — An unemployed nurse was sentenced to 10 months in jail for stabbing her fiance in the neck with a barbecue fork after he switched channels on her to watch the Super Bowl.

“You were almost a football widow,” Judge Ted Poe told Viola Delores Douglas, 37, after she pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor assault.

As Douglas explained it, she was watching a Disney movie Sunday when Eddie Harris, an asphalt firm worker, returned to the apartment they share and switched to the Super Bowl.

She attacked Harris with a knife, but he disarmed her and escaped injury, prosecutor Don Rizzo said. Later she returned to the room and discovered that Harris was ignoring the game. Infuriated, she stabbed him, prosecutors said.

Harris required a few stitches to close the wound.