Ford's alcohol problem took a turn for the worse when he decided to drink and drive late one friday night back in the eighties. Ford was driving home from a local bar in Fort Benton, MT when he lost control and ran over and killed a 7 year old cocker spaniel. Ford was jailed for 16 years without possibility for parole. In prison, he decided that it was time to change his ways. He joined a prayer group and became a Latter Day Saint. He also took up watching Chuck Norris movies. "I guess it was that show Walker: Texas Ranger that hooked me." says Ford. "The last name was the same as mine so naturally I liked it."

Ford was released from the Montana State Prison in 1998, but he soon would be haunted by demons once again. He started selling smack to kids outside a movie theater he worked at so he could pay for his pain killers. "I was in a lot pain after prison, so I needed pain killers. The movie theater just didn't pay enough." says Ford shyly. "It still hurts." After he had been in the drug dealing business for a couple of years, he became good friends with one of his best customers, who so happened to be Lover Boy of the UWC. The movie theater owners eventually found out about Ford's drug dealing business and fired him. Lover Boy suggested that Ford try getting a job with the Ultimate Wrestling Challenge. Ford joked at the idea. "I wasn't going to work for some gay wrestling federation. I'd rather be cutting down big timber and selling drugs to lumber jacks or working on a dairy farm... but I came to the realization all those things would not and could not happen. So I put in a application with Dan Gregier, the owner of the UWC as a interviewer and I got the job on the spot." says Ford. "It was probably the best job decision I have ever made."