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Funny letter: (Original Post) tblue37 May 2020 OP
Every firm needs to make that the basis for a form letter...hilarious!❤ Karadeniz May 2020 #1
Thanks for this. More, from Snopes: sl8 May 2020 #2
Thanks! From Snopes: tblue37 May 2020 #3

sl8

(13,748 posts)
2. Thanks for this. More, from Snopes:
Sun May 24, 2020, 09:33 AM
May 2020
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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tblue37

(65,336 posts)
3. Thanks! From Snopes:
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:31 AM
May 2020

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. I’m just glad my mother’s not around to see that letter.


And this is what the recipient now says:

No [I wasn’t angry with his response]. I thought it was pretty cool. I’ve used that letter a couple times myself since.
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