Victim sues ‘Pacman’

League, Titans named in lawsuit

? A strip club manager paralyzed in a triple shooting is suing the NFL, the Tennessee Titans and suspended football player Adam “Pacman” Jones, claiming they’re responsible for his injuries.

Tommy Urbanski seeks unspecified damages in the lawsuit, which his lawyer, Matthew Dushoff, said would be filed Friday in Clark County District Court. It also names the owners of Harlem Knights, a Houston strip club that rented the Minxx Gentleman’s Club in Las Vegas in February for a party the weekend of the NBA All-Star game.

“The fact that the NFL and the Titans did not punish Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones until after Tommy was paralyzed is a proximate cause of Tommy’s injuries,” Dushoff said before a news conference at a Henderson hotel with Urbanski and his wife, Kathleen.

Jones’ attorney, Robert Langford, denied the troubled cornerback had any responsibility for the man’s injuries, and called seeking damages from the player, the NFL and the Titans “a ‘Hail Mary’ pass.”

“There’s no basis in fact for suing the NFL and the Titans,” Langford said.

Jones faces two felony charges alleging he incited a melee and threatened to kill people inside the club minutes before the shooting outside. No one has been charged in the shooting.

Jones was suspended for the 2007 season in April for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

“From my heart, I feel bad for this guy and his family,” Langford told the Associated Press. “But Pacman Jones is not the shooter. No one has said that he is. There’s not one bit of evidence to link him to Mr. Urbanski’s injury.”

Urbanski, a former professional wrestler, was shot four times and was left paralyzed from the waist down in the Feb. 19 shooting. He spent several months rehabilitating at a Denver hospital before moving in August to a hotel in Henderson because his house has not been outfitted to accommodate a wheelchair.

Urbanski told reporters he held the NFL responsible for his injuries because he believed they ignored Jones’ previous run-ins with police.

“Even, ‘three strikes and you’re out,’ and this wouldn’t have happened to me,” Urbanski said at a news conference with his schoolteacher wife.

Jones was arrested six times after being drafted by the Titans with the sixth pick overall in April 2005. After his arrest in Las Vegas, he was suspended by the NFL, but he could be reinstated after Nov. 19.

“We’ve done our homework on this. If Jones had been disciplined earlier, more likely than not, he would not have been invited as NFL player Pacman Jones to the club,” Dushoff said.

Langford said that if Jones offered to help Urbanski, “someone would say he had something to do with his injury and we were admitting liability.”