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发帖数: 1365 | 1 sports illustrated的采访里面朱不理暗示他妈有精神病
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1179
Brees's relationship with his mother had been intensely complicated. They
were clearly close once: During an SI writer's visit to Austin in 1999, Drew
played a spirited tennis match with Mina at her private club and ate brunch
with her afterward. They had shared a love of sports; Ray Akins is Mina's
dad, and Marty Akins, a former quarterback at Texas, is her brother. Yet
Drew and Mina grew apart in the intervening years, over a succession of
emotional disagreements. In 2006 Drew publicly asked his mother to stop
using his image in advertisements for her judgeship campaign. The episode
was sad and unseemly. In his book Brees writes extensively of his efforts to
understand their conflict and concludes, in part, "The full truth is that
my mom and I had a toxic relationship." He suggests that his mother might
have suffered from mental illness.
Brees and his mother barely spoke for the last eight years of Mina's life,
but when Brittany became pregnant with Baylen, mother and son began to
communicate again. "Things were in the process of getting better," says
Brees. "Once Baylen was born, I really hoped she could be a part of his life
. We had been communicating back and forth about when that first meeting
would be, and then all of sudden she was gone." | d*****y
发帖数: 1365 | 2 这是09年的一个报导，看之不似正常人
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/NFL-QB-s-mom-go
NFL QB's mom goes after restaurant money via mail
Scores of Houston restaurant owners received a letter from an Austin
attorney last week offering them the “opportunity” to purchase one thing
that all believed was already and irrefutably theirs — their name.
The letter, addressed “to whom it may concern,” informed the restaurateurs
that their assumed names on file with the Harris County Clerk had expired.
The new owner of all these names, a company called Chicksports Inc., was
willing to sell each one back. The price? Some owners were told $25,000,
others $20,000. The letter ended with what some considered a threat.
“If you have not contacted me by email or phone by August 14, 2009,
Chicksports will explore its legal options for your use of the assumed name
it now owns or contact other parties interested in owning the reservation of
the right to this assumed name,” attorney Mina Brees wrote.
Brees, the mother of NFL quarterback Drew Brees, also happens to be the
president and registered agent for Chicksports. She did not return phone
calls from the Chronicle, but in a brief e-mail Brees said that her client
does not plan to maintain control over most of the names. Assumed names
expire after 10 years.
“My client intends to release any assumed names it reserved in the next
week or so, because it has selected the assumed name it wishes to use for
its business,” Brees said in her e-mail. “However, it is important to know
that once an assumed name is released, other individuals or entities will
have the opportunity to reserve that name.”
Brees did not explain why she applied for the expired names or describe the
nature of the business Chicksports was pursuing.
‘I was panicked at first'
Local restaurateurs did not know what to make of the letter.
Many were alarmed at first, fearing they could lose control of their public
identity.
“The first thing I thought was, ‘Oh my God, what is this?' I have heard
such horror stories over the years,” said Elouise Adams Jones, owner of
Ouisie's Table near River Oaks. “I was panicked at first. I thought I had
missed something terrible. My assumed name had expired, so that made me
concerned that I had a problem.”
Word spread quickly
Carmelo Mauro, owner of Carmelo's Italian Restaurant in west Houston, said
he was “shocked” by the letter — and by the notion of paying someone to
keep using a name that has been on his sign since 1981.
“The first reaction is, ‘No way I will pay $25,000,' ” Mauro said.
“I will change the name to Carmelo's Cucina Italiano or something else. You
start thinking so many things.”
Mauro did not know whether the letter was serious, but he was worried enough
to call the Texas Restaurant Association. Over the next few days he found
out that other local restaurateurs had received similar letters. Some of
them had been offered their names back for “only” $20,000.
Calls and e-mails quickly went out from one owner to another and then to the
restaurant group. Its general counsel, Glen Garey, was stunned when he
finally read a copy of Brees' letter. It contained an ominous message,
underlined and in all capital letters, at the top: “This letter contains
information which is important to your business entity.”
“I was almost shaking I was so mad when I saw that letter,” Garey said. “
I'm a member of the bar, and it's embarrassing for someone in our profession
to do something like that.”
He reassured members that the letters carried no weight and posted an alert
advising as much on the association's Web site.
“DO NOT PAY …” Garey wrote in capital letters. “The assumed name statute
says clearly that there is no need to file an assumed name if your
corporate name is your business name … .”
The owners' own lawyers reassured them with similar advice. Jeffrey Horowitz
, who represents the owners of Shade, a restaurant in Houston Heights, said
the letter made little sense from a legal standpoint.
“It looks like a weak attempt to do something like cyber squatting, but the
law in Texas is such that — with trade names and trademarks — first use
usually prevails,” Horowitz said. “Why they would send a letter like that
… doesn't make any sense unless they were trying to take advantage of a
restaurateur who does not know the law.”
Not her first publicity
Geary said he made no attempt to contact Brees. So far, he said, the
restaurant association has not taken any action against her.
“I figured any attorney who would do something like that would not be
disabused of their plans by a simple phone call,” he said.
Brees was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the Texas Court of
Appeals in 2006. She gained a dollop of national publicity when her son, who
plays for the New Orleans Saints, demanded that she stop using him in her
television campaign commercials.
Drew Brees characterized their relationship as “nonexistent,” and told the
Austin American-Statesman at the time that as he had gotten older he had
become more aware of his mother's “lies and manipulation.”
Drew
brunch
【在 d*****y 的大作中提到】
: sports illustrated的采访里面朱不理暗示他妈有精神病
: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1179
: Brees's relationship with his mother had been intensely complicated. They
: were clearly close once: During an SI writer's visit to Austin in 1999, Drew
: played a spirited tennis match with Mina at her private club and ate brunch
: with her afterward. They had shared a love of sports; Ray Akins is Mina's
: dad, and Marty Akins, a former quarterback at Texas, is her brother. Yet
: Drew and Mina grew apart in the intervening years, over a succession of
: emotional disagreements. In 2006 Drew publicly asked his mother to stop
: using his image in advertisements for her judgeship campaign. The episode
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