Michael Irving Getting Sued
Posted by Media Outrage on June 4, 2009
Former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Michael Irving is being sued for stealing a television show idea.
Via TMZ:
One of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history is playing defense for a change — after three TV producers accused Michael Irvin of stealing their idea for a football-based reality show.
Ironically, the show is about giving unknown athletes a shot at playing for the Dallas Cowboys – but in the lawsuit, filed last week in Dallas, Irvin is accused of screwing three unknown producers out of their chance to make it in Hollywood.
In the suit, the men claim they approached Irvin with the idea for a show in 2007 — but after they allegedly presented Irvin with storyboards and even a poster for the show, the Hall of Famer ran off with the idea and cut the guys out of credit, cash and even changed the name of the show to “4th and Long.”
The show is now airing on Spike TV and the producers are pissed — in fact, they’re suing for fraud, fraudulent nondisclosure and breach of contract.
June 4, 2009 at 1:22 pm
damn, first they were swagger jacking styles, now stealing tv show ideas is what’s hot in the streets…..tsk tsk Mike
June 4, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Damn everybody’s getting sued or suing.
Mike you know you wrong.
June 5, 2009 at 2:04 am
Man you know they were coming for you… LOL