This is actually from an old Deadspin story, but I never saw it until I found a link to it this morning. I hope whoever wrote it got a raise. So, what happened was that a lawyer who was a season ticket holder sent the Browns a stern letter complaining about other fans throwing paper airplanes around, threatening to sue if anyone in his party got one in the eye. The general counsel of the Browns replied thusly:
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As a practicing litigator, I can say that 80+% of the letters I send and receive are of the "no, fuck YOU" variety.
Ah, okay. LOL. I stand corrected.
Bailey has said that Modell ripped into him a bit over that letter.
their personalities
their personalities
Grannies don't have teeth. Nudge nudge wink wink.
identified themselves as a lawyer, but only as a "longtime and loyal season ticket holder, who is concerned because hooligans were engaging in dangerous activities that prevented the other patrons from enjoying the game."
I guarantee that the team's response to that type of letter would have been entirely different.
If a lawyer was going to identify himself as a lawyer, it would only be as an aside (not as a threat), and only be to suggest that if there were and injury, it could result in liability not only to the hooligans, but to team as well, and therefore the stadium's security personnel should be alerted to the situation to prevent this dangerous behavior in the future.
The asshole lawyer in the article, was concerned with his own ego, not with convincing the team that action was needed on their part.
Okay. Lawyers are not all assholes.
Now to convince BBI that lawyers are not all bastids. Hmm...
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by said paper airplane having a list of damages, one of them being 'loss of sexual services'.
Grannies don't have teeth. Nudge nudge wink wink.
Hey, whomever's gums your gracing these days is none of my business!