Extension on the GLA Lawsuit!
20 April 2010
We’ll start this post off with an inquiry that just came in today:
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I am sending this email in regards to the class action lawsuit. My name was on the list which was posted: Leroy Jones – I played with the Chargers from 1976 – 1984. I never received any information concerning the distribution of the funds as to when and how it will occur.
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Posted by RobertinSeattle |
Categories: News | Tagged: Dave Pear, Do No Evil, DocStoc, football, GLA class action settlement, GLA List, Group Licensing Agreements (GLA), Leroy Jones, Manatt Phelps, NFL, NFLPA, Players Inc., San Diego Chargers | 
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve certainly had a lot of discussions around the old adage “Not seeing the forest for the trees.” In the old way of controlling their spin on all stories about football, the NFL managed to keep all of the television networks and most of the major print media on very short leashes because of their broadcast rights and access to players and managers for interviews. And then the Internet came along. Despite claims of a few who proudly proclaim they invented the Internet and Facebook, this new medium has not only moved the retired football players battle to a new and level playing field; it’s in a different league altogether. Just as the past two weeks have completely caught Tiger Woods and his team of old-school PR flacks like deer in the headlights, the NFLPA and the NFL and their old media machines have been hard-pressed to catch up with a new medium that they can no longer control. The Internet doesn’t belong to anyone and it belongs to everyone.