December 27th, 2010
Galley Friend A.K. sends this Deadspin link, which features an exchange of letters from 1974. In the first, a Browns season ticket holder, who happens to be a lawyer, makes a particularly silly complaint to the Browns front office about fan behavior and hints at future litigation should the organization not humor him. The Browns respond by telling him to fuck off.
Viewed contemporaneously, the two letters show a glimpse at America’s past and into America’s future.
It’s kind of depressing. Very few American businesses–and certainly no NFL teams–would dare send that sort of liberated, common-sense response today.
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That’s an epic f-you letter.
Love how it’s cc’ed to Art Modell, just so the recipient knows that the mockery is going all the way up to the top.
I also saw that the Roetzel in Roetzel and Andress was a man named Cletus Roetzel. Can’t take a firm seriously that was founded by a man named Cletus. (Yes, I’m aware that a Deadspin commenter noticed this fact as well.)
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WershovenistPig December 28, 2010 at 11:29 am
Apparently, the letter writer, Dale O. Cox, is still practicing:
http://www.martindale.com/Dale-O-Cox/899398-lawyer.htm