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Thursday, October 8. 1987 / University Dailv Kansan
Sports
37 more NFL players cross picket lines
The Associated Press
How pro sports contracts compare
Football Baseball Basketball Hockey
Best deals Worst deals
Minimum salary $50,000 $62,500 $75,000 $25,000 X
Average salary $230,000 $410,000 $450,000 $158,000 X
Top yearly salary $2.1 million (John Elway) $2.4 million (Eddie Murray) $2.5 million (Akeem Olajuwon) $800,000 (Wayne Gretzky)
Guaranteed contracts 4% 99% 60%-70% 100% At contracts guaranteed, but with buyout provisions if a player is out.
Pensions Owners contribute $12.5 million annually to pension fund. Players are vested after four years. At 55, players receive $150 per month for each year of NFL service. Owners contribute $33 million annually. Players are vested after one day of major league service. Player is entitled to $8,000 per year of service, beginning at age 62. Players are vested after three years. Beginning at age 50, they receive $125 per month for every year of service. Players are vested after three years. Beginning at age 50, they receive $125 per month for every year of service.
Free agency Zero. Only one player, defensive back, Norm Thompson, has changed teams since 1977. Players are entitled to declare themselves free agents after six years of major league service. They are also entitled to file for salary arbitration after three years of major league service. When their contract expires, players are entitled to solicit offers from other teams. Their team has the right to match any offer and retain the player. When a player's contract expires, he may receive offers from other teams. His original team has the right to match any offer. The team is compensated with draft choices.
TV revenues Three-year contract worth $1,428 billion, from CBS, NBC, ABC and ESPN Contract through 1989 worth $1,1 billion from ABC and NBC. Four-year contract worth $44 million per year from CBS and WTBS. NHL is televised on ESPN in U.S. by "Hockey Night in Canada." Revenue is insignificant.
SOURCE: Long Beach Press-Telegram and Don Heinrich's Pro Review. Used with permission.
WASHINGTON — Thirty-seven more players, including Joe Montana and 11 of his San Francisco 49ers teammates, crossed NFL picket lines yesterday in time to pick up this week's paycheck and prepare for this weekend's games.
The defections brought to 129 the total number of players who have been held by their teams. The union says 1,585 players are under its jurisdiction.
Knight-Ridder Graphic
Both sides, however, disagreed on what went on at the latest session.
Meanwhile, union chief Gene Upshaw and management negotiator Jack Donlan met for a second straight day in the Washington area. Although both sides agreed a quick settlement wasn't very likely now, union leaders said they had said Upshaw was "encouraged, and progress has been made."
Management Council spokesman John Jones said the meeting lasted for five hours, recessed and would resume today. But Allen, the union's executive director, said the talks lasted for six hours and didn't recess.
Jones said only some secondary points were discussed — injury and non-injury grievance procedures, discipline by the commissioner, and safety and welfare. None is among the major bargaining points.
But Allen said such major topics as guaranteed contracts and protection for player representatives were touched on.
As for a quick settlement, Allen said, "There is a practical limit as to how quickly this thing can be done, and stress can be made in a matter of days."
The biggest rift in union ranks came in Redwood City, Calif., where 12 49ers crossed, including Montana, wide receiver Dwight Clark, running backs Craig Craig, Joe Cribs and former Jahewharry Harry Sydney and cornerback Eric Wright. Many members of that group were ready to join the Big Ten, all walked off of it by Coach Bill Walsh in the interests of team unity.
But Walsh wouldn't intervene this time.
"I wouldn't want to try it again," Walsh said. "We don't really have any other choice. If they want to back, our doors have to be open."
The union, meanwhile, said that it was holding the line in most cases.
He was disappointed, but not surprised, to be reported," Allen said. "Other than
that, though, only a few tricked in. We've still got around 1,500 on the picket line and right we aren't on the scabs but on our strength.
"We heard rumors of three to seven entire teams defecting, and that didn't happen. We're certainly confident of our solidarity."
A few players came close to defecting from the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, who are 0-3 and saddled with what appears to be one of the NFL's weaker replacement teams.
Three players, NFL MVP Lawrence Taylor, Pro Bowl defense end Leon Marshall and third string quarterback Jef Hostetler reported to Giants Stadium, then left after meeting with team officials. He drove by bose tackle Jim Burt and said he was going to play golf.
General Manager George Young denied they were asked to leave.
"Our policy is that each man has to answer with his own conscience,"
Young said. "Each man has to make the decision on his own."
In addition to the 12 49ers, other players who returned included four more from St. Louis, giving the Cardinals a league-high 18 defenders, and three more from Dallas, giving the Cowboys 11.
Minnesota and Buffalo each had two players return, one returned in Cleveland and one in Miami.
That left just seven of the 28 teams with no defectors — the Giants, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers, Seattle Seahaws, Tampa Bay Bucs and Kansas City Chiefs. Four more teams had at least one just left, including Chicago Bears, whose only deflector was rookie defensive back Votie Patterson, a member of the team's injured reserve list.
One of the Dallas defectors, defensive lineman Kevin Brooks got a letter from the Cowboys saying he might lose $250,000 of deferred income if he stayed out. Tony Dorsey and Ed "Too Tall" Jones cited similar reasons for reporting last week.
that author will not report such a case. That led the union to contend that such threats institute a breach of contract.
"NFL players who are illegally threatened by management to cross picket lines could go to court and seek free agency because their contract has been breached," Dick Berthelsen, NFLA general counsel, said in a statement.
The union already has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the Cowboys and New Orleans Saints for unlawful coercion players like Dorsett and Danny White.
Donlan and Upshaw resumed talks Tuesday night, ending a string of 11 days without negotiations.
Management had insisted progress could not be made until the union softened its bid for free agency, and the NFLPA early Tuesday declared it would not let one issue stand in the way of a settlement.
Sports Briefs
Kansas redshirt freshman defensive tackle Phil Hopper underwent surgery last night to repair damage on a knee that he injured earlier this week in practice. The extent of Hopper's injury wasn't known, but Lynn Bott, director of sports medicine, said he expected the knee damage to be extensive.
KU women's golf team travels to Florida
Earlier this week, freshman tight end Wolf Blaser underwent surgery to repair a partial ligament tear in his knee. Bott said the surgery wasn't major and said it was possible that Blaser could play in the last couple games of the season.
"That kind of stuff happens in the heat of competition," he said. "That was a good flare-up. I hope that kind of thing can carry over to game day."
Junior cornerback Johnny Granderson, who is recovering
from torn knee ligaments suffered in the Kent State game, is still questionable for Saturday's game at Nebraska. Granderson participated in the first part of practice last night but had to stop when he twisted his knee slightly.
At last night's practice, a short fight broke out between senior offensive tackle Bob Pieper and redshirt freshman linebacker Mongo Allen. Coach Bob Valesente said that kind of aggressiveness was not always bad for a football team.
The tournament field will include strong southern teams like Miami and Florida State and will feature such programs as Kansas, coach Kent Weiser said.
The Kansas women's golf team travels to Tampa, Fla., this weekend to compete in the South Florida Tournament.
"There will be a lot of strong teams there from that area, along with Oklahoma," he said. "It will be good experience play against that level of competition. We can compete against the better teams, but mental errors have held us back in the past."
The team will again be led by seniors Susan Pekar and Tina Gnewchw. After nine 18-hole
The South Florida Tournament begins today with the final round scheduled for Saturday.
rounds this fall, Pekar leads the team in lowest average score with 79.4. Gneuwich, who has also played in the team with an 89.9 average.
Defenders undergo knee surgery
"Both Sherri Atchison and Donna Lowen showed great improvement in the Kickoff Classic (in Oklahoma)," he said. "It takes more than two good performances from your top two golfers for a good team finish."
Weiser said two of the team's sophomores were beginning to support the seniors with improved play.
The Jayhawks, 6-11 overall, are now 1-4 in conference matches.
Kansas, which now has two won of its last three matches, will win in the Southern Illinois, IL, and play in the Southern Illinois tournament Friday and Saturday.
Volleyball team gets first conference win
The Kansas volleyball team won its first Big Eight Conference match of the season last night with a 15-7, 15-7, 15-11 victory over Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
"This was our first Big Eight win of the year; I'm pleased with that." KU coach Frankie Abutz told reporters that he and had some nice defense for us.
"We got in a slump in the third match, but Shannon Ridgeway pulled us out of the slump with some nice hitting. Judy Desch gave us some (serving) aces when we needed them," he added.
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