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to Handy. How you doing today, guys?
Speaker 4: Hey, Ron, Good to be with you, Ron.
Speaker 2: Good to be with you. Guys too. Look, let's not wait,
let's jump right into it. But I am shocked, just
by anybody when we talk about Hall of Fame. Bill
Belichick is a name that definitely rings the bell, but
not what I ever think. It wouldn't be a first ballot,
but the Pro Football Hall of Fame gets a legal
win in this controversy. What's the update on Belichick in.
Speaker 4: This Well, so upfront, the story we're going to talk
about does not involve Bill Belichick. It's another Hall of
Fame legal issue, but I do want to start with
you know, Bill Belichick as a loyal Patriot fan. I'm
trying to come up with a way that we can
represent other loyal Patriots fan to sue members of the
Hall of Fame voting for the atrocities that happened this week.
That a couple of things that need to happen. First,
I need to get approval from Garrett, who's a Seahawks fan,
and are you serious? Second, most importantly, most importantly, you
got to come up with some type of legal issue
that we can go after here. But there's not one.
But the legal issue that we do have involving the
Hall of Fame is a trademark issue. And what this
is is the state of a guy named Victor Maitland
sued the NFL and the NFL Hall of Fame claiming
trademark infringement and unfair practices. This claim grows out of
the fact that the claim that Victor Maitland his children
are saying he designed and sketched the original shield patch
that appears on the famous gold Hall of Fame jackets.
He claims that the state is claiming that this is
trademark infringement and that for years and years the NFL
and the NFL Hall of Fame have been profiting from
his design and his trademark. Well, the judge looked at this,
and he did recognize that Victor Maitland had in fact
applied for and gotten a trademark license for this. But
what he didn't do is he didn't assigned sell or
otherwise transfer ownership of the various marks at issue in
this case. Essentially, he didn't do some estate planning that
said that this would continue and be the trademark owned
by his estate. Now, the judge looked at this and said, yeah,
Victor Maitland did a lot of great things, and he
was involved in the NFL, and there's been profits, and
so they did really kind of recognize him. Which but
in the end they dismissed the lawsuit. The Hall of
Fame wins this lawsuit. They dismissed it claiming that one
of the main things they're claiming is that the statute
of limitations has run. That is that the time has
run for them to bring their claim. They also said
that you know, some of these all the people that
named it wouldn't kind of fall into how they should
do it. So it was a it was a win
for the Hall of Fame on this one. I lost
when they you know, denied Bill Belichick his entry. One
final thing, And for guys my age, it's crazy that
Victor Maitland is the same name of the antagonist villain
in the Beverly Hills Cop original Beverly Hills Cop. The
exact same name. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little bit on the younger side, so
I know Ben is going to roast me for that
and says I'm too much of a young and to
understand that.
Speaker 4: Up, I wrote Beverly Hills Cop.
Speaker 1: I wrote it.
Speaker 2: I wrote it down immediately because I because I need to.
But and I'm not trying to sidetrack anything, but I
apologize to both of you, guys, Patriot and Seahawk. I
did not think that would it would come up, and
that wasn't on my Bengal car Presston for twenty twenty
six between you and Garrett.
Speaker 4: All right, there you go.
Speaker 2: Let's keep on a factor. Speaking of more legal issues,
Dion finds Colorado football players the employee legal issues. I
think I saw something on Instagram where he's he's charging
fees now and fines for players in his Football program.
What's update on this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. And you know people have probably heard
about this a little bit. But you know, his players
are getting paid and getting money through revenue sharing deals
and nil contracts and all of that. I think Dion saying, hey,
you guys got money, and this is I'm going to
hit you in the pocket book if you're going to
show up late to practice or you know, post crazy
things on social media. I mean, there's all kinds of
things right for why you might get a fine plan
for Dion right now. And but this is this brings
up some legal issues for us, and one of that
one of those is is, well, first of all, how's
it going to enforce this?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, what if a player doesn't actually pay their fines?
I mean, what happens, right? I mean do they get
I mean besides maybe losing some playing time? I mean,
but are there some legal ramifications as far as you know,
maybe losing a scholarship or not being able to play
anymore or you know, something like that. And so there
could be some issues on you know, paying the money,
collecting the money, and and those consequences that could come
up and could ultimately result in some litigation. But the
other issue is just does this just move us one
step closer to players being employees and needing some collective
bargaining so that they can figure out together maybe as
a players association and negotiate these sorts of things with
the school and say, okay, well, if we're going to
be fined across the board and treated like employees, we
want some other protections as employees. So I think it
just it just shows that is the direction we're headed
in and brings up some potential legal issues in the future.
Speaker 2: You bring up a good point about a cbas from
your standpoint, is this something that will be implemented sooner
rather than later. It seems like there's a lot of issues,
you know, with the whole thing with nil and you
know now Dion trying to implement you know, fines for
rules in the program.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll go out on the limb a little bit,
but I do think eventually, I mean, as far as
how soon that's going to happen, I don't know. I mean,
we covered we've talked a lot in the past. There
was a case involving the Dartmouth men's basketball team who
attempted to unionize right and do some of that and
be acknowledged as employees, and but we're not there. We're
not quite there yet. But there's been some attempts by
schools to do that, and I think we'll see more
of that in the future.
Speaker 2: Crazy times in college football. Never thought that I would
see a college coach say I'm gonna find you if
you miss your equipment. That's an expensive mouthpiece on thousand dollars.
I want to be a part of that at all.
Let's keep moving on. Update Duke drops a lawsuit and
settles with QB. What's the update on this one. I
know this was something that we had discussed a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did, and so surprising. We're talking about this soon.
But the background for the listeners out there is last
week Duke University, their star quarterback who led the acc
and passing I think on the last day of the
transfer portal window. He said Hey, I'm transferring and Duke said,
hold not so fast, and Duke sued him. They sued
him for breach of contract, saying hey, we have an
nil contract in place, and they sued him, went to
the court and said we want a preliminary injunction preventing
him from jumping into the transfer portal. They said, we
want to enforce his contract and we're not even going
to let him enter the transfer portal. Well, the judge
looked at this and said, hey, let's put this on
pause and see if we can figure this out. Well,
this was a short lived lawsuit because this week we
get when that the lawsuit has settled. Now, the statement
was they reached a settlement agreement with Duke University, calling
a fair and mutually agreeable resolution, thanking Duke for a
good faced discussions. This is representatives of MENSA, the quarterback Mensa.
Duke went on to say, Hey, it's nonetheless a difficult
choice to pursue legal action against a student and teammate
for the reason we sought to resolve the matter fairly
and quickly. So I think that's what it came down
to a couple of things. I think it's interesting. Number one,
the fact that this is being termed as a settlement
is really interesting to me because a settlement usually indicates
that maybe there's been money paid. Rather than saying that
Duke dismissed the lawsuit, I think Duke looked down the
road and thought this is a bad look. We're going
to lose out here, but suing him and trying to
recover here, and really their one remedy was not money
from him because they wanted to pay money. It was
what they wanted a specific performance, saying, hey, we're paying
you to play quarterback. We want you to hold you
to this and play quarterback. Well, it's reported that it's
settled now, I don't know if. And as part of
the settlement, guess who's going to win this? Our guy
Mensa the quarterback because he is transferring to Miami, and
guess who doesn't have a quarterback? Duke does not have
a quarterback now. So this is really an interesting legal issue.
I think on the sidelines silently, a lot of schools
were saying, hey, way to go, Duke, way to go.
Hopefully you can enforce this because if we have a
player doing this, we want to be able to have
the teeth of this. We know that Georgia is suing
their ed rusher who transferred to Missouri, and that hasn't
been resolved yet. But the difference there is he's not
still at Georgia and they're not trying to keep him there,
So we don't know the resolution to that, but I
think this could have set It's been dismissed, but I
think it could have set kind of a standard and
maybe a statement for players that wanted to transfer. But
they still have the teeth of you know, claiming that
this is antitrust and that type of thing. So this
suit has its settled quotes and Mensa is on his
way to Miami, probably for a lot more money.
Speaker 2: Definitely for a lot more money, no doubt about it.
I think if Carson Beck who got paid to leave,
definitely a lot more money. Indeed, I guess I'll just
ask you this person is a quick follow up. Do
you anticipate the cases like this to continue to happen.
I think we discussed a month ago the Washington quarterback.
I feel like quarterbacks leaving last minute or I feel
like these lawsuits are going to keep happening in college
football when quarterbacks want to leave.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question. I think that this said
a send a message to a lot of schools, and
I think had gone down the road and Duke ended
up winning. I thought that he was using this maybe
as a ployee to get more money and stick around Duke,
if you'd asked me last week, I predicted that he
was going to stay. We had the Washington one and
what happened with him state state, So these are two
different results. Where Duke actually sued, they actually did pursue it,
and then there's the Georgia one. So I think schools
want to sue, they want to try and force contracts,
which they are legal contracts, but then it comes into
all these issues that you know Garrett talked about, and
the deonce are the employees. So that's that's why it
is imperative that at some point there becomes a collective
bargaining agreement and you can in fact enforce these contracts
because then they won't try to leave. But right now
I think the players kind of have all the all
the power really, you know, they get the benefit of
the contract they want their taking either too, they get
the benefit of the contract if they stay, but then
they also have the flexibility if they just want to
leave and go get a better contract. It's it's you know,
and Duke did have a statement. They came out they said,
we're really trying to come up with a predictability of
what happens in these cases. So I think everybody wants
that the predictability, except maybe that the players that want
to leave for more money. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's a saying you can't have your cake and
eat it too, but I guess in this case, you
can have your cake.
Speaker 4: You have your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 2: You can have it, you can eat it too. That
was the same my mom said, speaking of Sue, you know,
staying on the same topic, but switching tables. What is
it Chamberlass versus NCAA eligibility case recent court filing slams
NCAA garret. What's the update on this one?
Speaker 1: Well, this is another highly paid college quarterback that wants
to play another year. So Trinidad Chambliss, you know, I
had a great year old Miss, of course, and he's
got a deal that they you know, the word is
a word on the street. It's over five million dollars
to play next year at Ole Miss. You know, he
would get drafted in the NFL. It looks like as well.
But the again, the projections are that he'd probably make
less money actually as a rookie in the NFL with
his draft position, and so he wants another year. We've
also talked about this issue before with you guys. I
mean where you've only got you know, you've got five
years to or five years to play four and so
he's out of eligible ability. And so what he did
is he sought a waiver from the nc DOUAA and
he filed his application for a waiver, and part of
that was based on some injury and illness that he
had back in twenty twenty two at Farris State where
he missed missed the season, and the NCAA turned down
his application. And so after that his team filed a
lawsuit to seek essentially an injunction of permanent injunction so
he can get another year. And so things are kind
of on a hold right now. But one of the
little piece of evidence that's coming to light is just
the way the nc DOUBLEA is looking at these waivers
and there you know, their predisposition on any of these
decisions is to just deny them. Is just if you
file an application for a waiver, we're going to deny it.
And so they're pointing out that that's just not fair,
that they need to take all the evidence into account
and look at it objectively instead of starting from a
standpoint of well, we've got your waiver, but we're probably
gonna deny it. So this is just a tactic I
think by his attorneys to just again make the NCAA
look like this institution that's out of touch and that
doesn't care about about their student athletes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to wonder who's really Ben says, puppeteering,
But how who's in charge of all of these cases? And,
like you said, do they really care? He's a great
story in college football, you guys, I love it, but
as you know, we said a couple of weeks ago,
I mean, six years is six six seasons to play
for that's a lot of football, for sure. Don't know
how I feel about that one, but I love his
story in college football. Nonetheless, let's keep moving on the
last thing we have on the docket. Ex Olympian snowboarder
FBI fugitive Ryan Wettling arrested. What's the update on this one, Preston.
Speaker 4: Well, Ryan, the headline should be Ryan Wedding, Really bad guy,
Ryan Wedding.
Speaker 2: I apologize. I think I add an la.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ryan Wedding. He was a former Olympic snowboarder participating
in this as a local flavor Salt Lake two thousand
and two Olympics as a snowboarder for Canada. Well, I
think Ryan looked at his future and didn't think there
was much of a future in snowboarding and making money.
So what did he do? He turned to a life
of crime and drug crime. So Ryan Wedding has been
for about ten years been apparently hiding out in Mexico
and on the FBI's ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Well recently
he turned himself into the US Embassy in Mexico and
he has been charged with a number of crimes, crimes
growing out of the fact that he was moving tons
and tons of cocaine through Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and southern California.
And he was doing this under the protection of the
Cineloa cartel. This wasn't just selling a few drugs in
his basement. He was a big time i'm drug mover
and involved in a cartel. But in addition to that,
he has been connected to directly connected to the murder
of a federal witness and three other people. So he
is scheduled to appear in an arraignment in federal court
in La in Los Angeles, this has the makings of
a Netflix series for sure.
Speaker 2: Bad Guy, Well, I do watch Netflix, and if there's
a series made, then I definitely will be watching that.
That's for That's what. There's a lot of documentaries out
but Bad Guy stay away. But I guess I'm positive
turning yourself in. I guess you know there was some
like maybe at the end of the tunnel, but don't
want to shed too much of it as well. That's
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