Everyone grumbles over the Chief's losing seasons but if you were a real football fan you'd know that KC brought home a national championship last year, thanks to the ladies of the Kansas City Tribe. But even being a winner doesn't mean things are always good.
The Tribe were the 2009 champions of the Texas-based Independent Women's Football League, but now they're suing to get out of the WFL and hopefully avoid a $50,000 fine.
According to a Daily Record story on the suit, the Tribe has been in the league since 2007. Not only do they want out, but their attorneys are fighting a non-compete clause in an agreement they claim wasn't signed by the team's owners. If it isn't thrown out, the clause would allow the IWFL to hit the team with a $50,000 fine for joining another league. The team's budget is only $30,000, and team officials say a fine would bankrupt them.
In their petition, the Tribe says the IWFL failed to successfully market and promote the team, noting that only 500 fans attended the league championship game they won in Round Rock Texas last year. That game was supposed to be the IWFL's "marquee event."
Former Pitch staff writer Jen Chen profiled the women of the Tribe for a May 2008 feature ("Are You Ready For Some ... Women?") This is a team started by law school classmates who play through the Spring and Summer who handle all their own uniform costs, along with travel, stadium rental, recruitment, and advertising. Let's see Matt Cassel handle all of that by himself.
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