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

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Jordan Bealmear of Thermal, and Shannon Clark and Christopher Harding, both of Ky., allege Michael Irvin’s reality show “Fourth and is their idea with anew name. The plaintiffs in a lawsuitg filed in Dallas County accuse Irvinof fraud, fraux by nondisclosure, breach of contract and unjust Larry Friedman, Michael Irvin's attorney, told the Dallads Business Journal Wednesday that the lawsuit is completely bogusw and without merit.
Friedman said Irvin met with the plaintiffs, and they had no businesws cards, no company, no stationery and workex outside the industry without substantial Friedman added that a lot of peopl e in the entertainment industry were throwing the same show concepgt around and Michael had the concept and was lookingv fora producer. When askedd who called the initial meeting betweenbthe parties, Friedman said he didn't know who invited who to the meeting.
In the attorney for the plaintiffs, Mark Taylor of told the DBJ that the issure is not whether the idea for the show was but whether Michael agreed to enterd into a deal and then reneged on the terms of the The plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they developed the concepy behindthe show, which they were calling "Gut s to Glory" and ended up in contact with Irvinm and his representatives to invite Irvin to be the show'a host. The plaintiffs offered a deal in whicb Irvin and his agent woule receive 25 percent of the proceedd and the plaintiffs would receive75 percent.
They late struck a deal in which Irvin would take 75 percenf of the aggregate executiveproducinvg fee, while the plaintiffs would share the remaining 25 percengt and that adaptions of the show for otherr sports would involve a 50-50 split, according to the During the negotiation process, the threed say Irvin was provided with marketing including a story board, to presentr to Dallas Cowboys executives and Dallas Cowboyes Coach Jerry Jones with the intengt of getting the team involved. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff s say they were escorted out of aMarch 10, deal signing meeting at the Dallasz law offices of Friedman & Fiegler LLP in which Larry Friedman was present.
Their attorney, Larry Kopeikin, was attendinyg the meeting via aconferencwe call. When they were brought back intothe meeting, the plaintiffw were told that Irvin would have to reviesw the deal memo before signing. Days later, they learnede that Irvin would only agreed toa 95-5 percent split with Irvin takin a 95 percent cut, and five days after that Irvinm sent an e-mail to Clark stating that he had neved used the storyboard in his presentation to according to the The three individuals who planned to produce the show are suingf Irvin claiming in their suit that Irvim “through his agents, representatives, and/or employees, made false and material misrepresentations to plaintiffs concerningb his agreement to the termes of the deal including the 75-25 percent split.
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