LSU is in dismay this morning when it learned that running back Keiland Williams had traded the BCS Championship crystal ball trophy in to a pawn shop in exchange for a used bicycle.

"Hey, I won the trophy as much as anyone else on this team. Why couldn't I do whatever I wanted with it? What are you going to do with a trophy anyway? You can't get much use out of it. I tried playing catch using the ball with my 3-year-old son, but it broke his nose. But a bike, that you can actually ride around and stuff."

At about 11:43 PM Keiland took the trophy in to On Golden Pawn, a pawn shop in downtown Baton Rouge, where he traded it for the bike. The bicycle in question is a Schwinn 18-speed all-purpose bike. It is magenta with streamers on the handle bars and a horn on the top.

Keiland rode the bike onto campus the next day to find police surrounding the athletic facilities. "Apparently they had been called to investigate the theft of the trophy. I didn't know they would find out so fast, I wanted to surprise everyone. So I rode the bike into coach's office and told him I got something we could all use in exchange for the stupid trophy. To say he was a little made is a bit of an understatement..."

Les Miles took the police and Williams to the pawn shop where they attempted to buy back the trophy, but it had already been purchase. The buyer is an 82-year-old grandmother who lives alone with her 11 cats. They went to her house and attempted to persuade her to give back the football, but she had already broken it in half and started using it as a candy dish. She said if she were to give it up, she would have no place to put her Mr. Goodbars, and that was unacceptable.

Les Miles attempted to make the best of the incident and now has the bike on display in a glass case when you first walk into the athletic facility. "Now we can't even ride the thing," said Keiland. "What a stupid thing to do with such a nice bike."