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...money, NBC and TNT are starting a league of their own. Details are still being worked out, but the league would begin play on Sundays in the fall of 1999 in 10 to 12 "major U.S. cities" (read Birmingham, Memphis and every other medium-sized town shunned by the NFL, plus Los Angeles, which has lacked an NFL team since the Raiders and Rams fled...
...contract runs for one year with an option for another and brings to an end the speculation over where the 6'3,", 270 pounder would be playing next year. He had been entertaining offers of free agent contracts from three NFL teams...
Even though Fleiszer chose the CFL over the NFL in the short term, he clearly has the NFL on his mind...
...Hamilton was offering a three-year deal and nothing less," Fleiszer said. "We got them down to one year and an option year. I'm absolutely still interested in playing in the NFL, and that's part of why I accepted the contract, since I have the option to try [for the NFL] next year...
...There were two situations; I could be scratching and clawing to get on an NFL team, or I could have a better chance and maybe even start...