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| The London Bakers are disputing Reshad Jones 38-yard fumble return for a touchdown and are considering legal action to disallow the play. |
By R.E. Porter
Associated Web Press
The AWP has learned the London Bakers are considering bringing a lawsuit against the NFFA to overturn the results of the team's 9.7-point loss last weekend to the East Nashville Black Dogs.
According to the AWP's source inside the Bakers organization, the suit would center around what team owner QCurl Sharif is calling the "great gridiron robbery" that occurred in Miami on Sunday when officials blew a call that resulted in 12.8 points for the Black Dogs and cost the Bakers the win. On the play in question, East Nashville safety Reshad Jones picked up what looked like an incomplete pass and ran it 38 yards into the end zone. A stunned Sharif looked on in disbelief when the officiating crew ruled it a fumble and a touchdown. "You don't fumble the [expletive] ball 15 yards in the air down the field," Sharif said after the game.
The source went on to say if the Bakers decide to sue the league, they would file the lawsuit in the court of federal judge Naomi Morningstar, a close personal friend of Sharif. While their friendship — which might be more accurately characterized as intimate — would seem to favor the Bakers, since the team's move to London last season, Morningstar has been seen in the company of Black Dogs owner and U.S. Senate candidate Bill Money, including at a number of recent campaign events. This reporter overheard Money's daughter and Dogs GM Mo Money refer to the judge as her "future stepmom."
If they go forward with the lawsuit, it will not be the first time the Bakers have sued the league. In 2014, they brought a lawsuit to annul the entire season.
More on this story as it develops.
