Redskins Sue Old Lady for Breaking Season Ticket Contract Due to Financial Hardship
It’s articles like this that make it a little easier to be a Raiders fan. Article by James V. Grimaldi for the Washington Post:
It would be hard to find a more loyal fan of the Washington Redskins than real estate agent Pat Hill. She’s had season tickets since the early 1960s, when her daughter danced in the halftime shows at the old D.C. Stadium, before it was renamed in memory of Robert F. Kennedy.
In the hallway of her modest home south of Alexandria, the 72-year-old grandmother points out the burgundy-and-gold Redskins hook rug she made. In her bedroom, she shows off the pennants from two Redskins Super Bowl games she attended, and she opens a music box on her dresser that plays “Hail to the Redskins.”
Now, Hill says, her beloved Redskins are forcing her into bankruptcy.
Last year, Hill’s real estate sales were hit hard by the housing market crash, and she told the team that she could no longer afford her $5,300-a-year contract for two loge seats behind the end zone. Hill said she asked the Redskins to waive her contract for a year or two.
The sales office declined.
This sounds like something the Redskins management would do, in my opinion. No doubt they would NEVER be able to sell the seats for an even higher profit. Someone should really start a petition here or help Ms. Hill get one started.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090404119.html
Case got dropped.
those scum bag/greedy sports players and execs already make a crap load of money anyway from the lemming americans–they are a recessive/depression proof b/c of all the dumb americans who watch this people wiggle their arms to hit balls, or bounce them, or throw them, as the country is sinking further and further–what an embarassment to try to sue an geriatric lady for her breach of contract—thank goodness it was dropped—yet another sad testiment to what used to be a decent, reasonable country.