Michael Irvin sued over "Fourth and Long" reality show - Dallas Business Journal:

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Jordan Bealmear of Thermal, Calif., and Shanno n Clark and Christopher bothof Louisville, Ky., allege Michael Irvin’s reality show “Fourtyh and Long” is their idea with a new The plaintiffs in a lawsuit filecd in Dallas County accuse Irvin of fraud by nondisclosure, breach of contract and unjus enrichment. Larry Friedman, Michael Irvin's told the Dallas Business Journal Wednesday that the lawsuitg is completely bogus andwithout merit. Friedman said Irvihn met with the plaintiffs, and they had no businesxs cards, no company, no stationery and worked outside the industrg withoutsubstantial contacts.
Friedman added that a lot of peoplwe in the entertainment industry were throwing the same show conceptg around and Michael had the conceptt and was looking for a When asked who called the initiaol meeting betweenthe parties, Friedmann said he didn't know who invited who to the In response, the attornegy for the plaintiffs, Mark Taylo r of Dallas, told the DBJ that the issue is not whether the idea for the show was original, but whethe r Michael agreed to enter into a deal and then reneged on the termsx of the deal.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they developed the concept behind the which they werecalling "Guts to and ended up in contact with Irvin and his representatives to invite Irvin to be the show's The plaintiffs offered a deal in which Irvin and his agentf would receive 25 percent of the proceeds and the plaintiffsa would receive 75 percent. They later strucok a deal in which Irvin would take 75 perceny of the aggregate executiveproducing fee, while the plaintiffz would share the remaining 25 percent and that adaptionsa of the show for othed sports would involve a 50-50 split, accordinf to the lawsuit.
During the negotiatiom process, the three say Irvihn was provided with marketing including astory board, to present to Dallasw Cowboys executives and Dallas Cowboys Coach Jerry Jones with the intent of gettingb the team involved. In the the plaintiffs say they were escorted out of aMarch 10, 2008, deal signinh meeting at the Dallas law officeds of Friedman & Fiegler LLP in which Larry Friedmab was present. Their attorney, Larry was attending the meeting via aconferencre call.
When they were brought back into the the plaintiffs were told that Irvin wouldd have to review the deal memo before Days later, they learned that Irvin would only agre e to a 95-5 percent split with Irvin taking a 95 percent cut, and five days afte r that Irvin sent an e-mail to Clark statinhg that he had never used the storyboards in his presentation to Jones, according to the lawsuit. The three individuals who planned to produce the show are suing Irvin claiming in theirt suit thatIrvin “through his agents, and/or employees, made false and materiao misrepresentations to plaintiffs concerning his agreement to the termds of the deal memo, includinv the 75-25 percent split.
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