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Battalion/Page 11 October 5, 1982 sports tSfFL-less day doesn’t mean flife no longer worth living The NFL players’ strike has entered |s third week. So what! ■ The absence of National Football •league action hasn’t radically affected life. I You won’t find me going through ‘stages of depression or withdrawal on •Sunday afternoons or Monday evenings. ■ No, Fm as content watching the Uni versity of San Diego lock horns with cidental University as I ever was in the lays of Sunday afternoon football. ■ And yes, I had a better time sitting Sack in the easy chair last night watching ffissy Spacek croon in Coal Miner’s Baugh ter than I ever did trying to ignore ■oward Cosell’s maniacal ravings on ^Monday Night Football. H There are too many good things in life to waste it worrying about the absence of The NFL. I Making a Charlie’s run for a pint of rokies ’n Cream before settling back to latch a film classic on Ted Turner’s Su- rStadon has at least as much excite- #ient as a game between the Dallas Cow- ISbys and (yawn!) the Los Angeles Rams. ■ Bring back Roger Staubach, Fran Tar- .Hienton and George Blanda. ■ They were team players. B You’d never hear the likes of them ^complaining that multi-year, million- ‘flollar contracts weren’t enough. ■ Those were the days when players had "iorities. They could be working the assembly lines of Detroit — if they could Find work at all — earning a meager $9 per hour. Today the NFL Players’ Association says the players are not adequately com pensated for their services. They say they’re overworked and underpaid. A one game per week season (for a meager 16 weeks) with no more than four playoff games (all of which carry substantial playoff bonuses) seems a much better arangement than the gruel ing six games per week schedule faced by their counterparts in the National Bas ketball Association or in major league baseball. They say that 55 percent of the own ers’ revenues would be a fair settlement. Basketball and baseball players per form on an individually negotiated salary basis without questioning the owner’s rights to earn an income off his invest ment. There are millions of unemployed Americans — almost 10 percent of the nation’s workers — who would love to have such an overworked, underpaid occupation as the NFL players have. And those NFL players shouldn’t lull themselves into the false security that they wmn’t be joining those millions on the unemployment line. The NFL is not invincible. Those who believe the NFL is here to stay need only look at the alternatives to their brand of football. Die-hard football fans can always tune in the Canadian Football League or the newly discovered Sunday college football action. And the advent of the United States Football League is just around the corner. Goodbye to the NFL. So long to the mediocrity the league has provided Americans with for the past few years. Let the members of the NFLPA fall back on their “college educations” and try to make the kind of money they make playing football without giving 1,000 percent greater effort. Give me Blue Bell and two-hours of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. I’m content. uestions arise in Astro I'PS'O amp about roster spots first [gainst fe pile! d to di winning United Press International OUSTON — Facing its First Stseason in three years with- ut a game to play, members of ore be Houston Astros figure a umber of key managerial and DSter positions are up for grabs. ■Owner John McMullen and General Manager A1 Rosen ust decide what to do with in- ini manager Bob Lillis, who bok over after coaching from le first base box. McMullen and Rosen must tide whether key relief pitch- :sJoe Sambito and Dave Smith, ijured during the season, will |eready to go next season. The istios’ catcher position also i O Inust be Filled. Center Fielder (Ulfony Scott lost his job during a 239-hitting season. hip” x mont hs ago in training lc j qlhjftp. McMullen predicted a great cli-hampionship. Instead, the re exciifP 111 finished its 21st season in 3 thanj ifth place — 12 games behind ate( j w i ; he Atlanta Braves, is for an ■ttf When in early August it be came obvious the pennant was not within their grasp, McMul len fired Manager Bill Virdon and replaced him temporarily with Lillis. Lillis is rumored to want the job but Sunday he said he had not indicated his intentions to the club. “We’re still on hold. I haven’t given them (team executives) any indication either, so it’s a standoff,” he said. The only other person whose name has surfaced in connection with the job is San Francisco’s , Joe Morgan. After their Final game Sun day, team members watched from the locker room as former Astro Morgan’s home run gave the West Division title to the Braves and former Astro Don Sutton pitched the Milwaukee Brewers to the American League East Division title. Frank LaCorte, an Astro re liever, said he was concerned that the turnover in the club would rise dramatically. The Astros middle infield solidified over this past season with the development of Dickie Thon, 24, at shortstop and the late-season play of Bill Doran, 24, at second base. The Astros ended the season with third baseman Ray Knight at first base and second baseman Phil Garner at third. Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired BRYAN 216 N. Main 799-2786 Mon.-Fri. 8-5 Sat. 8-1 COLLEGE STATION 8008 Post Oak Mall.. 764-0010 Mon.-Sat. 10-9 p.m. Texas State m Of^ticae sc Since 1935. luthwest arly •s said to 4-7 win rence f<* il conditi ce anyo# klahoiw ' dahoninl than year a? U'" has a n mosfi for." tarters L yala ( s l nil 1 . Do Something Different Tonight! Walton Drive, C.S. BRAZOS AVIATION NOW FEATURING: FLIGHT INSTRUCTION CHARTER SERVICE RENTAL & SALES 696-8767 Texas hires coach United Press International AUSTIN — Richard Quick was apppointed women’s swim ming coach at the University of Texas Monday, returning to the city where he grew up and learned to swim. Quick, 39, has guided Au burn University’s swimming teams since 1978 and coached numerous world and American record-holders. Quick, whose appointment is effective immediately, replaces Paul Bergen, who resigned ear lier this month after four years at Texas to coach a swimming team in Canada. GETTING _ _ OUT Rudder Forum 8 ; 00 OCT. 7,8,9 and 14,15,16 Tickets available atMSC box office or at the door HHHHHHMHHHHHHHIIHliHHHHHHflHHHHHHHHHHHHHHflHHflHIlHV AAA Alpha Lambda Delta will have their Apple polishing dessert party on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 7 p.m. ROOM #145 MSC (All members please come by the cubicle in 216 MSC to pick up an invitation so you can invite your favorite professor.) GREEK NIGHT at the ZEPHYR CLUB Every Tuesday ;4,T,',As' . v —. : 'Wear Your Club Jersey Have Happy Hour All Night Long. >> - SO«t Drafts 1°° Kami Kazis Woodstonc - Hwy. 30