Jerry Jones facing lawsuits from Super Bowl ticket holders

[El Supremo]

No, I don't have a vendetta against Jerry Jones. He keeps bringing on the shit himself.

By SportsDayDFW sports
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11:24 AM on Tue., Feb. 8, 2011

The Super Bowl has been over for more than 24 hours, but Jerry Jones may not be able to put the event behind him just yet.

According to a press release, Jones and the Cowboys are facing a lawsuit from fans over tickets not related to the 400 fans who were turned away from their unsafe temporary seating.

Eagan Avenatti, LLP, a law firm specializing in consumer rights, launched an investigation Tuesday into possible claims against the Cowboys and Jones after receiving reports that the Cowboys and Jones deceived hundreds of the team's best season ticket holders into paying $1,200 a seat for Super Bowl tickets that turned out to be temporary seats with obstructed views.

The season ticket holders, known as the "Founders" of Cowboys Stadium, each paid at least $100,000 per seat for a personal seat license at the stadium, which the Cowboys and Jones promised would entitle them to the "best sightlines in the stadium" and the right to purchase a ticket to Sunday's Super Bowl at face value....

http://superbowlblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/jerry-jones-facing-lawsuit-fro.html

[wilt the stilt]

1. The final judgement

will not be in their favor. Buyer beware and if you don't realize the you are dealing with Jerry Jones then you lose.

[hughee99]

2. I wonder if Jones' lawyers will argue that the "best sightlines in the stadium"

ARE the obstructed view seats. That may be the case for a Cowboy's fan at a Cowboy's game, anyway, but not for the SB.

[madinmaryland]

3. Roger Goodell has taken responsibility for the problems...

(CNN) -- Football officials are apologizing to ticket-holding fans who were denied seats at Sunday's Super Bowl, but that may not be enough to stop lawsuits over the issue from going ahead.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday took full responsibility for the seating fiasco, in which about 400 fans with tickets were denied seats because certain sections of Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, which hosted the event, weren't ready.

A total of about 1,250 fans were affected, but roughly 850 of them were relocated to other seats, while the remaining 400 were left without, the NFL said. Some people in the Dallas Cowboys organization volunteered to give up their employee tickets so affected fans could have a seat, Goodell said.

"We apologize to those fans that were impacted by this," Goodell said at a news conference Monday. "We will certainly do a thorough review and get to the bottom of why it all occurred, but we take full responsibility for that as putting on this game."

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/football/02/08/super.bowl.seating/index.html?hpt=T1

[hughee99]

4. I think this may be a separate issue.

These are Personal Seat License ($100k +) owners who ended up with obstructed view seats at the SB.

[El Supremo]

5. Read the story.

These are the richest of the Cowboys' season ticket holders. Not the other 1,250 suckers.

[wilt the stilt]

6. frivilous lawsuit

will these rich assholes stop abusing the court system. Shut up and sit down like the rest of us peons. you have no rights. clogging up the court system for this.

Actually, i hope they signed away their chance to sue by waiving that right in their personal seat license. it would make me laugh.