Fleckenstein v. Friedman

The plaintiff Fleckenstein and the defendant Friedman were sometime college and later professional football players. In 1932 Friedman wrote and the defendant Collier Company published an article dealing with the amenities of the game. It stated, among other things, that “ Both games [college and professional] suffer from the occasional player with a mean streak — the bully of boyhood who knows his physical superiority and takes sadistic pleasure in displaying it.” This theme was first illustrated by reference to the conduct of an anonymous college player and then by reference to Fleckenstein…