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...over the family's small business, the lowly Lions, may have led to his taking over the big one. For one thing, he proved that his reputation for being overly diplomatic--read mousy--was undeserved. He not only restructured the Lions operation but in doing so took on the NFL owners, an intractable billionaire boys' club...
...Ford's first NFL team owners' meeting in 1995, the opening issue of business was whether the league should take away the Lions' annual Thanksgiving game and give it to a better team. But Ford made a goal-line stand. "This game doesn't belong to you or to us," he fumed. "It belongs to the fans who've been watching it since 1934--which predates most of the franchises trying to take it away." And as if to vindicate Ford's stand, on their Thanksgiving outing last Thursday the Lions terrorized the Chicago Bears...
...Covers Scoop the weekend's NFL action with TIME Daily's pair of pigskin prognosticators...
...Carmen Policy will continue to run the team's day-to-day operations and will become a minority partner in order to replace DeBartolo as the team's representative to the NFL for league business...
...Elsewhere on the NFL docket: Soon-to-be-fired Dallas Cowboy Barry Switzer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor gun charge following his arrest last summer carrying a loaded pistol in his luggage at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. He was fined $3,500. And the Miami Dolphins have offered a contract to troubled ? and I mean troubled ? running back Lawrence Phillips. "There is a large upside," coach Jimmy Johnson said before meeting with Phillips Tuesday, mentioning the legally challenged Phillips will be entering a "highly disciplined program" with the Dolphins. It may have to involve manacles...