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...ABSOLUTELY must watch professional football this fall, you'd better start learning Canadian Football League rules. The way negotiations for a settlement to the two-week old NFL players' strike are going, games from the Great White North are going to be the only Sunday TV fare for quite a while...
...sides' positions are as firmly held as they are distant. NFL management is offering the National Football League Players Association a five-year salary and bonus package worth $1.6 billion. Although the players like the $1.6 billion figure, they want it paid out over four years. They also want it distributed according to a negotiated wage scale. And most important, the players want to begin sharing in the owners' television contract receipts, which amount to a cool $2.1 billion dollars over the next five years...
...NFL owners say that there's something un-American about the union demands, that the players and their pinkish lawyer, Ed Garvey, are out to undermine free enterprise itself. But the owners bowls of socialism have a decidedly hollow ring. In the first place, NFL stadiums are built and maintained at public expense. Most of the players themselves are trained for their NFL futures at state funded universities. And the owners enjoy a virtual monopoly in their sport as a result of a generous anti-trust exemption granted them by Congress--and they are currently lobbying the Senate...
...owners' real reason for red-baiting the union is that the players' proposal, if written into a contract, would constitute a double invasion of the owners' sacrosanct "managerial prerogatives." As the NFL's chief negotiator, Jack Donlan, told CBS Radio: "We're talking about money. They're talking about control...
...Harvard I learned to handle many tasks at once," recalls the former scholar-athlete, who has continued his education in the off-season at the University of Chicago's Business School. "You have similar pressures being a labor leader in the NFL and at a school like Harvard, where there's a lot of demands all focused...