Gallagher v. Cleveland Browns Football Co., Inc.

Patricia A. Blackmon, Judge.

This appeal requests this court to hold that it is error for a trial court not to apply the doctrine of primary assumption of risk when a sideline spectator-videographer is injured by two football players who collide into him while he is kneeling and taping the last play of the first half of the game at the end zone known as the “Dawg Pound.”

The Cleveland Browns Football Company, Inc., Cleveland Browns, Inc., and Cleveland Stadium Corporation, Inc., defendants-appellants, timely appeal the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas denying their motion…