Post by Logan on Apr 5, 2016 19:39:04 GMT -6
Patriots fans are so riled up over Deflategate, they’re suing the NFL
It’s not just the New England Patriots who are smarting from Deflategate. Some of the team’s loyal fans say the scandal has thrown them for a loss.
A group of fans bereft over the loss of a first-round draft choice, part of the punishment meted out by the National Football League, filed a federal complaint Tuesday seeking to block enforcement of the penalty.
Among the plaintiffs is a Connecticut father and lifelong Patriots fan whose 7-year-old daughter will no longer go with him to games because she believes they are fixed and a fan from Florida who “pays a considerable amount of money” to watch the Patriots on the NFL Sunday Ticket, a television game-viewing and streaming package.
“Letting the powerful oppress us when we’ve done nothing wrong is about as un-American as it gets,” attorney Seth T. Carey, who filed the suit on behalf of the fans, said in a statement. “That attitude is the polar opposite of what the real patriots fought and died for on the very ground that NFL owners sit while they rake in billions of dollars from us fans.”
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/05/patriots-fans-file-suit-over-deflategate-suffering/FDpM1IE1NN26VCmmZGLhEP/story.html
It’s not just the New England Patriots who are smarting from Deflategate. Some of the team’s loyal fans say the scandal has thrown them for a loss.
A group of fans bereft over the loss of a first-round draft choice, part of the punishment meted out by the National Football League, filed a federal complaint Tuesday seeking to block enforcement of the penalty.
Among the plaintiffs is a Connecticut father and lifelong Patriots fan whose 7-year-old daughter will no longer go with him to games because she believes they are fixed and a fan from Florida who “pays a considerable amount of money” to watch the Patriots on the NFL Sunday Ticket, a television game-viewing and streaming package.
“Letting the powerful oppress us when we’ve done nothing wrong is about as un-American as it gets,” attorney Seth T. Carey, who filed the suit on behalf of the fans, said in a statement. “That attitude is the polar opposite of what the real patriots fought and died for on the very ground that NFL owners sit while they rake in billions of dollars from us fans.”
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/05/patriots-fans-file-suit-over-deflategate-suffering/FDpM1IE1NN26VCmmZGLhEP/story.html