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SONNY, MONEY AND MERGER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The merger of the National and American Football Leagues, with special emphasis on Sonny Werblin, owner of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets, the fellow who started the courtship...
...first thing David A. ("Sonny") Werblin did when he bailed out the bankrupt New York franchise in 1963 was to hire Wilbur ("Weeb") Ewbank as his coach and buy time on the radio to ask: "What kind of a name is Weeb...
...first thing Ewbank did was to take a hammer to the piggy bank that Werblin had filled as longtime boss of MCA-TV. Over the past three years, the Jets have laid out an estimated $2,000,000 in bonuses for promising college players - $400,000 of which went to Joe Willie Namath, 23, a gimpy-legged quarterback from the University of Alabama who did everything last week except match the A.F.L. record for most touchdown passes in one game...
...Sellout!" Naturally, not everybody is overjoyed at the merger-notably David ("Sonny") Werblin, owner of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets, who is furious at having to pay the indemnity (his share: $2,000,000) to his cross-town N.F.L. rivals, the Giants. "Sellout!" screamed Werblin, who has sold 43,000 season tickets...
...Come. By week's end the N.F.L. had already signed 13 out of the 16 first-round draft choices and lost only one to the A.F.L.: Oklahoma Linebacker Carl McAdams, who signed with Werblin's Jets. The A.F.L. was batting a sorry .500 on its top draft choices, with five out of ten signed and five lost to the N.F.L. Even so, one big battle was still to come over Texas Tech's All-Everything Halfback Donny Anderson, who was drafted last year as a junior by the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers and the A.F.L...