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Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. We thought you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.
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Funny letter: (Original Post)
tblue37
May 2020
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Karadeniz
(22,511 posts)1. Every firm needs to make that the basis for a form letter...hilarious!❤
sl8
(13,748 posts)2. Thanks for this. More, from Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cleveland-browns-letters/
Letter Exchange Between Law Firm and Cleveland Browns
A lawyer received a caustic response after complaining to the Cleveland Browns about fans' throwing paper airplanes during the team's home NFL games.
DAVID MIKKELSON
PUBLISHED 19 JANUARY 2011
Similar to a previous item involving Yankee great Mickey Mantle, in late 2010 another piece of crude sports-related correspondence surfaced on the Internet, prompting questions about whether scanned images of letters purportedly exchanged between an attorney and the Cleveland Browns football team were genuine.
The first missive, dated 18 November 1974 and addressed to the Cleveland Browns, was signed by Dale O. Cox of the Akron law firm Roetzel & Andress, a season ticket holder who complained about the potential for injury among spectators due to the practice of Browns fans throwing paper airplanes during games at Cleveland Stadium:
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A lawyer received a caustic response after complaining to the Cleveland Browns about fans' throwing paper airplanes during the team's home NFL games.
DAVID MIKKELSON
PUBLISHED 19 JANUARY 2011
Similar to a previous item involving Yankee great Mickey Mantle, in late 2010 another piece of crude sports-related correspondence surfaced on the Internet, prompting questions about whether scanned images of letters purportedly exchanged between an attorney and the Cleveland Browns football team were genuine.
The first missive, dated 18 November 1974 and addressed to the Cleveland Browns, was signed by Dale O. Cox of the Akron law firm Roetzel & Andress, a season ticket holder who complained about the potential for injury among spectators due to the practice of Browns fans throwing paper airplanes during games at Cleveland Stadium:
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tblue37
(65,336 posts)3. Thanks! From Snopes:
This is what the letter writer says now:
I was all of 28 years old when I wrote that letter. I should have been more cautious. Im just glad my mothers not around to see that letter.
And this is what the recipient now says:
No [I wasnt angry with his response]. I thought it was pretty cool. Ive used that letter a couple times myself since.