The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL, in separate filings Wednesday, pursued the dismissal of a lawsuit against the parties for failing to provide some spectators seats to last year's Super Bowl.
The Cowboys say they are not responsible for breach of contract or fraud, as the suit alleges, since they say it was the NFL, and not the organization that sold tickets for the game.
The team received five percent of the ticket sales but said the plaintiffs would not be able to prove they purchased the tickets from the Cowboys.
The league, for its part, said it was unaware the seats would not be ready in time for the game and indicated it was not in on e-mails or meetings that circulated indicating otherwise.
"The whole notion that the NFL never intended to provide the promised seating, or intended to defraud its ticketholders in any respect, is utterly implausible," the league said, according to SportsBusiness Journal. "The NFL had nothing to gain by tricking ticketholders, which weighs against any inference of fraud."
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