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...ADVANTAGE] At time of move announcement, a more winning NFL team...
What?s another few hundred million when you?re talking about Texas football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew we differentiated ourselves," he said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind...
...McNair that came up with $195 million in public financing for his $310 million new stadium. It?s a sign of community interest that neither of the L.A. groups could come up with in blas? La-La Land, and to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, it?s a sign that football isn?t dead in Houston. Of course, don?t be too surprised if in a few years football is suddenly declared viable in L.A. again. Say, for an even billion...
Quarterback Matt Rader threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, and tailback Jim Finn--who would become the last player taken in the 1999 NFL Draft--ran for 106 yards and three scores...
...Meanwhile, the Tuna's old team is this week's recipient of the league's equivalent of a bye, a date with the Cleveland BROWNS. Twelve points is a lot to give in the NFL, but since the Brownies have only pushed across 17 all season the Pats are likely to cover...