The league folded April 2, but not before beginning to develop a proprietary gaming app.
Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon, left, and AAF co-founder and chief executive Charlie Ebersol are named as defendants in a class action suit. By Jacob Bogage Jacob Bogage National sports writer and blogger Email Bio Follow April 12 at 12:00 PM A pair of former players filed a class-action lawsuit this week against the Alliance of American Football, alleging leaders of the now-defunct spring league concealed its financial status and defrauded players out of millions of dollars.
Colton Schmidt, a punter for the Birmingham Iron, and Reggie Northrup, a linebacker for the Orlando Apollos, submitted their complaint Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court. The league’s former chairman and chief investor Tom Dundon, who also owns the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, and league founder and chief executive Charlie Ebersol are personally named as defendants, along with holding companies that make up the AAF’s corporate structure.
“There is an asset and we understand that asset has value,” he said. “To the extent that someone came in in bad faith to attain that asset and hurt our players, that has to do with our claim.” The season debuted in prime time on CBS on Feb. 9, and that game the highest-rated sports program of the weekend.
“Defendants intentionally concealed or suppressed their disregard for the long-term viability of the league intending to defraud plaintiffs and class members and intended to conceal the fact that the league was insolvent,” their lawsuit argues. “I think that anybody could bet these lawsuits were coming down the track. I mean, they screwed them. There’s no way around it,” Gaw said. “To not pay for these guys’ hotel rooms? To have their stuff waiting for them in the lobby? That’s a slumlord thing to do.”
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