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CLEVELAND – A metropolis Browns follower sued the National Football association and its teams over the player lockout, claiming it desecrated his lessen to acquire tickets through his individualized centre license.

Ken Lanci, a self-made millionaire who ran unsuccessfully terminal year for the crowning county polity employ in Cleveland, filed the causa weekday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

"It's a fight between billionaires and millionaires," Lanci said Friday in a phone interview. "There isn't whatever disposition for multi-millionaires. It's meet not going to happen. And somebody has to defence up and say, 'Enough's enough.'"

The causa asked for restitution of more than $25,000 from the Browns on both breach of lessen and intense faith counts and more than $25,000 from the association and its teams for questionable lessen interference.

Neal Gulkis, a Browns spokesman, refers questions to the league.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press in an e-mail that the association had not seen the causa but apprehended fans' frustration.

"NFL clubs every have declared defrayal policies to protect fans during the work stoppage," Aiello wrote. "The prizewinning solution to Mr. Lanci's concern is for the organization to return to the bargaining table and complete a labor commendation that will put the mettlesome backwards on the earth where it belongs."

The causa also asked for whatever added whatever restitution that the court considers fair.

The case was appointed to Judge John P. O'Donnell. The association and teams have quaternary weeks to respond in court.

Lanci claimed that the lockout denies him the correct low the individualized centre licenses to go to Browns games and has blasted the continuance of the seat-license agreement.

The causa claims the NFL and its teams have "conspired with the Browns and digit added to hair discover the players, without justification, resulting in the Browns' breach of the PSL agreement."

The NFL hasn't forfeited games to a work stoppage since 1987, when a strike short the season and whatever games included nonunion replacement players.

The important sticking point in negotiations leading up to the lockout was how to divide the NFL's more than $9 billion in annual revenues.

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