Back in 1974, when former general counsel for the Cleveland Browns Jim Bailey had been with the team just a couple of years, he received a complaint from a concerned season-ticket holder. Dale Cox, an Akron attorney, apparently wasn’t very happy about Browns fans’ practice of making paper airplanes out of programs and throwing them in the stands.
Perhaps sensing an opportunity, Cox put the team on notice that he intended to sue if he or anyone sitting on his bleacher were to be hit by such a plane.
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