Not "Winning one for the Gipper"
07-12-2007 08:39 |
In a follow up to our earlier post on the Gipper:
The Associate Press reports today that relatives of George Gipp are suing over the recent, October 4, exhumation of the legendary football player's body from his grave. In a controversial effort to determine whether Gipp fathered a child out of wedlock - Rick Frueh of Chicago, who claims to be Gipps great-nephew, requested the exhumation. Mike Bynum, a Birmingham, Ala. sports writer, and friend of Frueh, helped arrange the exhumation and notified ESPN about it. The ESPN network reportedly filmed the Gipp exhumation for its E:60 show, but has not aired the show yet.
Bynum, while doing research for a book on Gipp, became interested in exhumation as he was reportedly investigating an internet posting of a woman (the granddaughter of a woman who dated Gipp) who believed she was a descendant of the football legend.
The lawsuit accuses a number of defendants, including Frueh, Bynum, ESPN, and others of negligence and claims that the exhumation caused extreme shock and humiliation for other Gipp relatives.
Subsequent paternity testing of Gipp's remains showed that the famed football star was not the father of his former girlfriend's daughter. |
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