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...everything goes well, next fall Joe Azelby, the 110th captain of the Harvard football team, will be trading the red and white Crimson "H" on his helmet for the streamlined red, white, and blue buffalo of the NFL's Buffalo Bills...
...team under the legal doctrine of eminent domain. But locking the barn door did little good, the colt was gone and legal precedent favored Irsay. In the past year a California federal court has twice ruled in favor of Al Davis, owner of the Raiders, who challenged the NFL constitution and the city of Oakland when he moved his team from Oakland to Los Angeles. Davis had long held that Rule 43 of the constitution, which states that any franchise move must be approved by 21 of the league's 28 owners, was blatantly illegal...
Davis noted recently, however, that the court's ruling pertained only to his own move. "It does not give anyone else in the league the right to move." Though NFL, commissioner Pete Rozelle predicted ruefully that the Davis decision would herald an era of "free agent franchises," he has refused to put the Irsay move to a vote, bowing before the Mammon of professional sport--money. An owner will be understandably reluctant to veto a profitable relocation when he may be the next to require his peers' approval...
...franchise's merit is now measured largely is terms of money--the national reputation of the Dallas Cowboys. "America's Team," helped raise their price to $70 million in a recent sale. The NFL, which has a purchaser must own at least 51% of the team a stock, watched silently s a consortium of local businessmen bought the team, $70 million is a lot of money, considering that one could have purchased a team for $100 during the '30s, but it is a sound investment--the NFL's TV package alone brings each team $15 million a year...
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