Lawyers “Bear Down” over Chicago Bears Tickets!
Who would have thought anyone would so badly want to see Chicago Bears’ quarterback Rex Grossman make such terrible decisions with the football? Two Chicago lawyers, apparently. Donald Ramsell has sued his former buddy Douglas Warlick for the rights to buy season tickets for the Bears, which lost in the Super Bowl this past season. Warlick has owned four Bears’ season tickets since 1985, a year in which the Monsters of the Midway dominated the NFL and won Super Bowl XX. Warlick apparently let Ramsell goes “half-sies” on his $10,000 personal seating license to Bears’ games at Soldier Field in 2000.
Ramsell has alleged that Warlick has gotten into trouble at past Bears’ games, and the organization even threatened to revoke his season tickets. Thus, Ramsell said that he is merely trying to protect the two tickets that he paid for. He has charged Warlick with wanting to profit off the skyrocketing value of the tickets due to the Bears’ recent emergence from hibernation on the field in the last couple of years. Apparently, a pair of the disputed tickets now goes for $20,000.
Warlick has disputed the lawsuit and the claims that he’s holding the tickets from his buddy for his financial gain. Throwing out the most ultimate of insults, he called Ramsell a Cubs fan who is interested in the tickets for the money (and you thought Bears’ linebacker and current contract holdout Lance Briggs is being cut-throat). Warlick reaffirmed that he is the true Bears’ fan and claimed he told Ramsell that he would never put an agreement to writing as he was not intending to permanently give up the tickets and he would lose his parking pass to games if he only kept two season tickets.
Regardless of who’s right or wrong in this situation, I think it can be safely said that these two lawyers are taking the team’s theme song “Bear Down Chicago Bears” a bit too literally in their argument about season tickets for the defending NFC champions.
