Before position coach Tom Cable was fired by the Seattle Seahawks and rehired by the Oakland Raiders last week, his Wikipedia page went through a bit of an overhaul, according to the Wall Street Journal's Andrew Beaton.
Cable's wife, Carol, admitted to erasing sections that included an incident in 2009 in which he allegedly punched an assistant coach and allegations of domestic violence from his ex-wife, Sandy Cable, and ex-girlfriend, Marie Lutz.
"We weren't trying to hide anything," Carol told Beaton. "We lived through these false allegations. There was no documentation to back it up. It was false."
Former Raiders assistant Randy Hanson accused Tom of punching him and breaking his jaw in 2009, but he was cleared of charges due to inconsistencies in both accounts.
Later that year, Sandy and Lutz told ESPN that Tom had a history of violence against women. The coach admitted to slapping his first wife on one occasion, but he escaped punishment from the NFL because he wasn't employed by the league at the time.
In an effort to have the allegations removed permanently, Carol engaged in a back-and-forth with another Wikipedia user in which the paragraphs were removed and republished on multiple occasions.
They were finally restored to the page Sunday.
