LOL 184 MILLION AHAHAHAHAH IS THIS POSSIBLE FOR THE JETS FAN TO DO ? AHAHHAHHAAHAH
2007-09-28 20:42:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Haha... OMG. LIFE! This is what people have become? $184 MILLION?! A fan is suing the Pats and Belicheck about an incident that has already been resolved and found that there was no competitive edge gained in the game... the video was taken away in the first few minutes of the game and upon viewing... there was NO cheating. This guy is just off the wall... consumer fraud? Uh huh. This guy is just a douchebag Jets fan who probably isn't even trying to get any money, but trying to distract the Patriots into losing enough games to maybe let the Jets win the division. NEWS FLASH: Ain't gonna happen because the Jets aren't that good! Wow... Mangini was able to rally the Jets to one respectable season only to get trounced in the playoffs. If my memory serves correct... Herm Edwards used to do the same thing it's just Mangini did this with the Jets after a losing season as a rookie head coach... the Jets just aren't consistant no matter who their head coach is. Get over it Jets fans... your team sucks, so does your head coach and so does your CRAZY fanbase that tries to sue a team for something that is already dead in the water and has nothing to do with you personally. HA DUH! haha
2007-09-29 01:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by Go Wit Da Flow 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a case of a fraudulent law suite. First, the guy bought a ticket to see a game. He saw it. What goes on during the game has no bearing on anything. I guess I could try a law suite for the cheerleaders showing their panties while my 10 year old son is a spectator. oops, I may have opened a can of worms on that one.
I think the ticket holder spent his last dollar for the game and feels like he won the lottery on the cheating scandal.
If that guy wins, then I am going to throw a grape down in the produce isle of my local grocery store, step on it, fall down and sue. Think I would win? No, because I just wouldn't do it. And this ticket holder should be jailed for attempted embezzlement or something like that.
2007-09-28 21:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by RUESTER 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not just for this one man you need to read the article agian its down there ▒▒▒▒▒
By Dennis Waszak Jr.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:18 p.m. September 28, 2007
NEW YORK – A New York Jets season-ticket holder filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against the New England Patriots and coach Bill Belichick for “deceiving customers.”
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., by Carl Mayer of Princeton Township, N.J., stems from the Patriots being caught illegally videotaping signals from Jets coaches in New England's 38-14 season-opening win Sept. 9.
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“They violated the integrity of the game,” Mayer's attorney, Bruce Afran, told The Associated Press. “This is a way of punishing Belichick and the Patriots.”
Mayer is seeking more than $184 million in damages for Jets ticket holders.
Belichick was fined $500,000 by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and the team was fined $250,000 for violating a league rule that prohibits clubs from using a video camera on the sidelines for any purpose – including recording signals relayed to opposing players on the field. New England also must forfeit a first-round draft pick next year if it makes the playoffs or a second- and third-rounder if it doesn't.
“They were deceiving customers,” said the 48-year-old Mayer. “You can't deceive customers.”
The lawsuit maintained that because other teams found illegal videotaping by the defendants, Jets ticket holders should be compensated for all games played in Giants Stadium between the Jets and Patriots since Belichick became head coach in 2000.
The two calculated that because customers paid $61.6 million to watch eight “fraudulent” games, they're entitled to triple that amount – or $184.8 million – in compensation under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
“How many times have the Patriots done this? We find it hard to believe they did it just once,” Mayer said. “We just want to get to the truth of the matter of what the Patriots did to the Jets. I think the ticket holders are genuinely concerned about it. This is a type of misrepresentation.”
Patriots spokesman Stacey James declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Mayer and Afran, who consider themselves public interest lawyers, have been thorns in the side of New Jersey politicians for years, filing lawsuits and demanding investigations to advance their grievances. They are well known in the state but generally have had little success in their causes.
Both have lost bids for elected offices, and Mayer once served as a presidential campaign adviser to Ralph Nader.
Their demand in March for a probe of Gov. Jon S. Corzine's gifts to a former girlfriend was rejected by a federal prosecutor. In 2006, a judge vetoed their effort to block Corzine's appointment of Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., to fill the governor's seat in the U.S. Senate.
They also failed to get a court to order a special election to replace Gov. James E. McGreevey when he resigned in 2004.
Now, they're taking on the Patriots.
Their latest lawsuit asserted that the secret videotaping violated the contractual “expectations and rights” of Jets ticket holders “to observe an honest match played in compliance with all laws and regulations.”
The actions of Belichick and the Patriots violated federal and state racketeering laws, as well as the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and New Jersey Deceptive Business Practices Act, according to the lawsuit.
“Having been a lifelong Jets fan, as soon as I heard this, I was completely outraged,” Mayer said. “The NFL just slapped them on the wrist. I'm a consumer lawyer, and this is consumer fraud.”
2007-09-28 21:13:27 · answer #3 · answered by BUGGZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will end up the same as most Jets games in a loss. But if they win I am a avid fan of the NFL and I want my cut
2007-09-29 00:21:58 · answer #4 · answered by jeremy t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jet fans are known to run on only 5 cylinders,their elevator doesn't reach the top floor,they are one taco short of a combination plate
2007-09-28 20:55:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well at least jets fans will have one thing to feel good about from the last few years.. that is if they win the law suit. because i know the jets playing abillities havent kept anyone happy except opposing teams.
2007-09-28 22:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by crazycovey21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belichick has already been fined 500,000. Why would you sue him if he has already payed his consequences? The Jets fan wouldn't win the case.
2007-09-29 02:57:20 · answer #7 · answered by PJW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays, anybody can sue anyone for just about anything. It doesn't necessarily mean they will win. If the lawsuit is really frivolous, the judge might just throw it out.
2007-09-28 20:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...Maybe its someone hired by Mangini...*L*...And he wants to make a big deal about videotaping...They'll get laughed right out of court and into jail for wasting the courts time...
2007-09-28 20:55:58 · answer #9 · answered by Terry C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure jets and fans can do anything.. except win.
2007-09-28 20:45:32 · answer #10 · answered by stifflergal 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋