A local tele-vision station appeals to Citizen Journalists, in reference to this lovely story- Police: NJ man purposely vomited on Phillies fans
Pity the poor fan of sports video-games. Already duty-bound to spend $60 a year on the same game over and over and over again, in some perverse preview of their Purgatorial tedium, now it transpires that the very athletes whose likenesses, names and game statistics make their favorite games possible are suing the makers of those games for using their likenesses, names and game statistics with neither permission nor compensation.
This is, of course, an insult to the real victims. The fans:
I’ve always hated lawsuits about people being upset about being in a video game. They should be honored it’s not like it ruins their reputation and makes them evil or anything. Just a bunch of old money grubbers.
Suing happens to be one of the easiest ways of making money in the US. Trust me, they’re proud, but greed is a mofo.
wow, bitter old jerks much?
seems that they spent all of their money, and they need more
Huh, so this is what happens when you retire without any proper real world job skills. Lazy douches.
i hate lawsuits, we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money.
Football players have enough money. EA has enough money. I don’t know who to hate more. I find American Football to be the worst sport ever, curling is better. On the other hand, EA is a terrible developer and generally published crap.
hi, im a nfl player and earn millions upon millions of dollars from my contract and endorsments alone, now i dont think thats good enough and want to sue a computer game company for using my likeness which improved my fans experience when playing such games as nfl made by ea, Having millions of dollars and getting into places for free isnt just as good as it used to be
Holy moly shit toad get off your enormously high horse and give us little guys some happiness
Gotta love the nfl players who make millions of dollars and then sue for maybe 20,000$. If they spent there money better then they wouldn’t even bother doing something like this.
Yeah…those darn retired athletes who were cheated out of money owed them by collusion between a video-game company and their union! Don’t they know they’re hurting the fans! Why, if EA had to pay the retired players fair compensation, MADDEN 2010 might cost a whole $65!
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Dick Butkus pogs for the sports fans!
Eagles pogs for fans of classic cocaine rock!
Bikini Open pogs for all the wrong reasons!
…and the creme de la exploitive creme:
O.J. Simpson “Trail of Blood” pogs! (If one was going to commemorate the so-called “Trial of the [previous] Century,” low-grade collectible discs of stamped cardboard would be the ideal venue to do so.)
(This post dedicated to the Firesign Theatre, Kato Kaelin, and Mike Sterling.)
Reader Jason is a fan of the Chicago Cubs and deep down inside, aren’t we all? (No, not really, but that’s neither here nor there.) He tells me that new team owner Sam Zell is looking at selling the naming rights of Wrigley Field, which sounds a bit iffy to me considering the iconic nature of the place but hey, it’s his sports team and if he needs to generate an additional few million in revenue, that’s his right, right? Thankfully for this website, not everyone thinks this is the case.
i’m sure this has probably been posted, but in case it hasn’t…
why don’t you mainland folks organize a petition or joint statement of some sort declaring that all (or as many as possible) cub fans will boycott whatever company buys the naming rights to wrigley?…..Oh yeah, and let me restate my other suggestion…one of you whose life is particularly dismal ought to shoot zell. nevermind the jail time and new gender role that woudl surely be forced upon you; you would be a hero to all Cubdom and all marxists in general…
