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Originally Posted by willravel
Let's say, hypothetically, I work for the Dallas Cowboys as a recruiter. My job is to find the best kids coming out of college and offer them stupidly amazing deals to play football. I find a great QB from San Diego and offer him $4.5m a year, plus a mansion and 3 car fleet provided by Mercedes (with several witnesses). He agrees. Without reading, he signs a deal that promises $4.3m, a house, and a Ford Mondeo. He'd have legal standing to press charges against me.
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Will, I think you've missed what I posted before so I'm going to say it again, this time in all caps with bold lettering and underlined:
A WRITTEN CONTRACT SUPERCEDES A VERBAL CONTRACT IN ALMOST EVERY VENUE AND INSTANCE.
Period.
Then in the above, you're confusing the criminal and civil justice systems. One cannot "press charges" in a civil court. "Charges" is a term used in the criminal justice system.
Finally, and to address the scenario posed above, you're plain old, flat out wrong. The football player would not have grounds to file a legitimate suit. You can promise him whatever you want, but what will be upheld in civil court will be the the written contract. If, in your scenario, the football player is illiterate and doesn't have an agent (one possible, the other so unlikely as to be impossible), then you (as the "recruiter") could be brought up on criminal fraud charges and potentially be civilly liabile. However, there are damn good reasons that football players have agents, one of which is that they're paid to read the fine print and make sure that the Mercedes are actually Mercedes and not souped up Mondeos. The same is true of military recruiters - you as the enlistee are bound by the written contract and not the verbal contract EVERY SINGLE TIME.
What you're saying runs counter to every real life application of contract law that I've ever encountered. I know you're a smart guy, but you are wrong here. There's no room for error; you're just wrong.