<div dir="auto">I have to disagree. Pretty sure I see stories like this at least once a year. The Bengals even showed it on their season of Hard Knocks.  </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 26, 2017 5:27 PM, "Jeffrey Winick" <<a href="mailto:jwinick@hwhlegal.com">jwinick@hwhlegal.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I note that despite your fake news proclamation that this is a widespread practice (presumably based upon your own extensive personal experience) that there’s
 only one story on the wires and it only involves one team.  So at a minimum it indicates that the other NFL teams at least have the good sense to keep it quiet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Announce [mailto:<a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">announce-bounces@usml.<wbr>net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Blocker, Mark B.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 26, 2017 4:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> USML Announcements<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [USML Announce] What a Bunch of A-Holes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1f497d">Is this really the best you can do? You think this only happens on the Packers?  Weak.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">MARK B. BLOCKER</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Announce [<a href="mailto:announce-bounces@usml.net" target="_blank">mailto:announce-bounces@usml.<wbr>net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeffrey Winick via Announce<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 26, 2017 3:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jeffrey Winick <<a href="mailto:jhwinick@aol.com" target="_blank">jhwinick@aol.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [USML Announce] What a Bunch of A-Holes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">No surprise though - being an a-hole is the Packer way.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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