Biggs: Memorabilia company thinks Urlacher is done

At least one company out there thinks Brian Urlacher’s career may be over, and he’s doing something about it.

Urlacher filed suit today in Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court today against Dreams, Inc., for breach of contract on a $1.2 $1.1 million, four-year deal he had to sign memorabilia and make appearances, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

APBrian Urlacher has sued Dreams Inc. after the company terminated a $1.2 million, four-year contract he has to sign autographs.

“I don’t think you send a lawyer letter telling Brian his career is over,” said Urlacher’s attorney David Rammelt, referring to the termination letter sent to the middle linebacker on Wednesday.

Urlacher dislocated his right wrist in Sunday’s loss at Green Bay, and had surgery to repair it. He was placed on injured reserve but is expected to return next season. Multiple hand and wrist specialists have said it is not a career-ending injury, and former New York Giants linebacker Carl Banks returned from a dislocation of the same lunate bone in his wrist in 1990.

Dreams, Inc., which owns the Field of Dreams chain of memorabilia stores across the nation, as well as Mounted Memories and Northbrook, Ill.-based Schwartz Sports, signed Urlacher to a contract in 2007 and it is supposed to run into 2011. Urlacher has made numerous appearances at large memorabilia shows conducted in Chicago by Mounted Memories.

According to the report, Urlacher is asking for a judge to uphold the contract and a jury to award roughly $600,000 left in his contract and any related damages. One memorabilia insider said Urlacher was probably receiving in the range of $60 per signature, so Dreams is hoping to get out of having to pay him for roughly 10,000 John Hancocks.

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