Bills fan sues team over three 'excessive' text messages

Anyone looking for the year's most frivolous NFL fan related lawsuit can probably stop their search.

A Buffalo Bills fan who now resides in Florida has filed a class-action lawsuit against the team for sending him three too many text messages.

As the Buffalo News reports, Jerry Wojcik "and his attorneys claim that on Sept. 12, while visiting the team's website, he read an ad about receiving mobile text messages from the Bills."



"'Get up to the minute news and team alerts sent directly to your phone!' the program's terms and conditions state, according to court papers. "You will be opted in to receive 3-5 messages per week for a period of 12 months."

Wojcik claims that in his second week after signing up, the Bills sent him six text messages. Several weeks later, he received seven. These three additional texts beyond what he expected was clearly such an egregious miscarriage of justice that Wojcik felt the need to file a lawsuit claiming the team was in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Wojcik is seeking "$500 per excessive call for negligent violations and up to $1,500 per call for willful violations."

Unless the team was repeatedly texting video clips of Scott Norwood's '"wide right" or images of Mario Williams and Ryan Fitzpatrick's contracts, I'm not sure why Wojcik didn't just unsubscribe and call it a day.



(Thanks to The Big Lead for alerting us to this story.)