(Redskins owner Dan Snyder, perfectly willing to work out an installment plan with struggling seniors…who aren’t named Joe Gibbs)
Is someone having trouble paying Jason Campbell’s salary? The Washington Post’s James V. Grimaldi reports the Redskins are a suing a 72 year old grandmother / season ticket holder who sought to be excused from her annual ticket agreement for two seasons.
Pat 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.
On Oct. 8, the Redskins sued Hill in Prince George’s County Circuit Court for backing out of a 10-year ticket-renewal agreement after the first year. The team sought payment for every season through 2017, plus interest, attorneys’ fees and court costs.
Hill couldn’t afford a lawyer. She did not fight the lawsuit or even respond to it because, she said, she believes that the Bible says that it is morally wrong not to pay your debts. The team won a default judgment of $66,364.
“It really breaks my heart,” Hill said, her voice cracking as the tears well and spill. “I don’t even believe in bankruptcy.
“We are supposed to pay our bills. I ain’t trying to get out of anything.”
Redskins General Counsel David Donovan said the lawsuits are a last resort that involve a small percentage of the team’s 20,000 annual premium seat contracts. He added that the team has accommodated people in hard-luck circumstances hundreds of times. He said he was unaware of Pat Hill’s case.
“The Washington Redskins routinely works out payment plans and alternate arrangements with hundreds of ticket holders every year,” Donovan said. “For every one we sue, I would guess we work out a deal with half a dozen.”
fuck red skins. they make gobs of money. i hope this negative publicity will make them fork out more for advertisements and lose their money too.
As a lifelong (since ’67) Redskins fan, it absolutely profanes me that Dan Snyder is THIS fucking desperate for money that he has to sue people who’ve had bad luck in this fucked-up economy.
If I hadn’t read Tom Boswell’s column today (in our local paper, not the Post), I wouldn’t have known about this story…let alone the REAL story on why the MNF game last year made FedEx into “Heinz Field on the Potomac”.
After 12 years of going to Skins games (thanks to my brother having season tix), he gave ’em up this year. NOW I’m glad he did, because of the “Prima Danna” and his shyster lawyers shaking down innocent people.
Can we PLEASE find someone to buy the Skins, and make ’em competitive AGAIN??