--- title: Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal description: The gators were each about five-feet long canonical: https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-03T19:51:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:29.040Z og:title: Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal og:description: The gators were each about five-feet long og:url: https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb36cee4cae990d6d/69877d700b72e31aa46dd7e4/richard-nixie.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: richard-nixie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal twitter:description: The gators were each about five-feet long twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb36cee4cae990d6d/69877d700b72e31aa46dd7e4/richard-nixie.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal by [Michele Corriston / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Michele Corriston / People Feb 3, 2015 7:51 PM UTC  Richard Nixie Richard NixieVolusia County Sheriff's Office by [Michele Corriston / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Michele Corriston / People Feb 3, 2015 7:51 PM UTC The Florida Gators didn’t make the Super Bowl, but that didn’t stop one man from trying pay homage to the team with his game day dinner. Richard Nixie of DeBary, Florida, skipped buffalo wings and nacho dip in favor of gator, illegally killing five small alligators and cutting off their tails to cook, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The gators were each about five-feet long, according to the Associated Press, and Nixie admitted to trapping them. Police arrested Nixie, 30, on Sunday for possession and taking alligators without a proper tag, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. He was released from county jail on a $500 bond and is due back in court March 3. “No one should have possession of a Florida alligator unless they are a state nuisance alligator trapper,” Greg Workman, a spokesman for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, told the Sentinel. “It’s not just a free-for-all.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/florida-man-arrested-killed-alligators-super-bowl) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/"},"headline":"Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal","datePublished":"2015-02-03T19:51:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:29.040Z","description":"The gators were each about five-feet long","url":"https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Bizarre","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb36cee4cae990d6d/69877d700b72e31aa46dd7e4/richard-nixie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michele Corriston / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb36cee4cae990d6d/69877d700b72e31aa46dd7e4/richard-nixie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"richard-nixie","caption":"Richard Nixie","creditText":"Volusia County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3694191/florida-man-killed-alligators-super-bowl-meal/","name":"Florida Man Arrested for Killing 5 Alligators for Super Bowl Meal"}}]}] ```