Ifeyani Ohalete, don't you have anything better to do?

Ex-teammate sues Portis over jersey number .

You didn’t even make the team, so you’re lucky to even have gotten $20k in the first place.

You look like a whiny bitch bringing a lawsuit over a jersey number. I hope this gets thrown out of court, and your legal fees come to $21,500.

He and Portis had an agreement. Portis didn’t pay him all his money. He is entitled to a civil suit in order to get the rest of it.

Would you be happy getting half of what you’d been contractually promised? I sure wouldn’t. Your OP is disingenuous. He’s not suing over a jersey number, he’s suing over an unfulfilled, legally-binding contract.

Does it need to clog up an already burdened docket?

I wouldn’t be suprised if it was a “contract” written on a bar napkin or something not quite so formal. (Although, now I wonder if I read somewhere that a bar napkin actually is a legally binding document. Maybe it was an episode of Cheers. I digress.)

On the surface, though, a professional athlete making in the neighborhood of $400k a year suing for $20k for a jersey number he didn’t even use past training camp is pretty ridiculous. If this “contract” turns out to be anything more than a handshake deal (“hey, I’ll give you $100 and a case of beer…” kind of thing), then I’ll pick up the flag.

From The Washington Post (registration required):

Emphasis mine.

Yeah, that’s what it said word for word in the article I linked in the OP. With all due respect, though, Atty. Steren can call whatever he likes to a contract, and that does not necessarily make it legally binding. IANAL, but I’m willing to wager that what Portis and Ohalete signed was not the legally binding and enforceable document that Steren is making it out to be.

Is Portis a dick for welching? Sure. Is Ohalete a pansy for bringing this to district court? You betcha, and hence the thread.

I did a little bit of research (something I probably should have done in the first place, huh? :wink: ), and while IAstillNAL, it appears that Ohalete has an entirely valid case.

From here, and other sites

So, upon further review, the ruling on the field, that the OP was ‘knee-jerk’ and of itself without merit, stands. The OP is charged a time out.

[whistle; windmill motion of right arm]

Hey, you’re not supposed to be so reasonable and admit defeat so quickly in the pit. You’re upposed to fight and curse and make specious arguments and stuff. Sheesh! :wink:

What?

I’d sue if somebody owed me 20K as well.

The real question is, why isn’t Portis paying? The guy has an eight-year, $50 million contract, which included a $17 million signing bonus this year.

:confused:

20K is chump change for him.

So sue me. :smiley: