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Cleveland Browns fan sues NFL in attempt to end lockout

By Chris Chase


Fans are getting involved in the NFL's labor battle.
A Cleveland businessman is suing the National Football League and its teams, claiming his right to buy tickets through his personal seat license has been violated because of the lockout. Ken Lanci, a self-made millionaire, has asked the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to overturn the lockout that is threatening the 2011 NFL season.
He is seeking $25,000 in breach of contract from the Cleveland Browns and the same amount from the league and its teams for contract interference.
In a phone interview with the Associated Press, Lanci summed up his complaint:
"It's a fight between billionaires and millionaires. There isn't any sympathy for multi-millionaires. It's just not going to happen. And somebody has to stand up and say, 'Enough's enough.'"
In other interviews he's called out the owners for being greedy and players for being ungrateful for making so much money when many in the country are suffering. But isn't he a millionaire himself? Was this lawsuit filed from a glass house?
I'm so confused. Between the billionaire owners and the millionaire players and the millionaire businessman who is calling out his rich brethren, I don't know who to root for. This is like watching a Soviet Union-East Germany hockey game from the 1976 Olympics.
Since everything I know about the law was learned from staying home sick from school and watching "Matlock," I can't speak to the validity of the lawsuit. However, on the surface it doesn't appear to have much merit. As I understand it, PSLs give buyers the right to buy season tickets. As long as there's a refund policy, where's the breach of contract. (And this ignores the fact that the lockout is still five whole months from canceling games.)
Kudos to Lanci for stepping up and trying to force the NFL's hand, but this isn't the way a lockout is going to end. It'd be more effective if wealthy fans like himself said they weren't going to buy tickets even if a lockout is averted. If enough of that happened, then the league might have to take notice.
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HELLS YEAH!!! NEED MORE LIKE THIS. the lock out hurts us the fans more than anything. people need to get their heads out of their butts and come to an agreement. you play a game for a living, i bet more than half us would love to be in their shoes and get paid pennies compared to them.
 
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Of course Browns fans would sue. They say they are suing over tickets, but I think the real reason is the fact that they are Browns fans. On top of being Browns fans, they also live in Cleveland. Just terrible luck all around.
 
i wish we had someone sueing. the league and the pa need to wake the **** up
 
Ricky_Fan34 said:
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Of course Browns fans would sue. They say they are suing over tickets, but I think the real reason is the fact that they are Browns fans. On top of being Browns fans, they also live in Cleveland. Just terrible luck all around.
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Point is he's the only one with enough balls to try it. God bless him. Wish more season ticket holders half the sack he does instead of calling him out like the above post. Let's not forget also Miami lost to the lowly brown's last season
 
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I think when we're retired, old men, sitting on a beach chair in the bahama's, sipping on pina coladas from hollowed out pineapple husks, we will think back, and thank the football gods for taking away a season of fins football, so that we may enjoy our old age, instead of dying sad, depressed, lonely 50 yr old men from broken hearts.
 
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ahhh Cleveland home of the great-full and rational..
 
"Since everything I know about the law was learned from staying home sick from school and watching "[COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]Matlock[/COLOR][/COLOR],"

That's funny.

The PSL, Personal Seat License is where I think he has some legal ground. Because it's a contract to 'owning' the seat that your ticket gives you. I doubt it goes anywhere but I'm glad he is doing it. If I had the time and money I'd do it too.
 
The lawsuit is frivolous. When he bought the PSL, he signed a contract with stipulations about what would happen if a lockout occurred. I wish that wasn't the case, but it is.
 
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