The Co-Knucklehead of the Day award Part Two

Today's second winner is Jamie LaMunyon. She is the owner of The Montgormery Maulers a National Indoor Football League team. Ms. LaMunyon gets one of today's awards for firing her entire football team. Earlier this month paychecks made out to players bounced for insufficent funds.

Does Ms. LaMunyon think anyone will want to play for her? Who wants to if they won't get paid. The team is financial difficulty and the former players want want they are due. Instead they get fired. LaMunyon won't have a team and still owe these people their pay.

For defrauding her employees and then firing them over back pay, Jamie LaMunyon is today's second Co-Knucklehead of the day.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (April 27)- Montgomery Maulers owner Jamie LaMunyon had an emphatic response to her players' demand for back wages: You're fired.

LaMunyon said she will field a replacement team for the National Indoor Football League game at Osceola, Fla., on Friday, and next week at home.

"I have cut all the football players," she told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday. "Fans will see a whole new team next week in Montgomery. Maybe they can win a game."

The mass firings came after four Maulers held a news conference at a local attorney's office Wednesday saying the team wouldn't travel to Osceola if LaMunyon didn't pay money they claimed she owed them.

Attorney Donald Jackson said some players were owed as much as $800 or $1,000 and the average was about $650.

"In all my years of a sports-based legal practice, I have never seen anything quite like this," Jackson said. "But it's not really surprising. The owners of this team are apparently in dire financial straits. Whether you call this a termination or a refusal to pay, it's all the same. What she's doing now is grasping at straws."

LaMunyon disputed the players' claims that some have not been paid for as long as four or five weeks.

"They have missed one pay check," said LaMunyon, who already replaced the head coach this season. "The league requires that I hold their last pay check because (the players) have a couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment."

The players' checks bounced earlier this month, which LaMunyon said was just a mistake in her checking account.