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By ED CASSAVOY
Sports Writer •
Pressure. Every rookie player
going through an NFL training
j camp lives with it from the first day
i he checks in. And it follows him
through each dropped pass or nicely
run route.
If he’s lucky and good, maybe he
won’t read his name on the list of
cuts.
Jimmy Teal, a standout wide re
ceiver for Texas A&M the last four
seasons, is betting he’s good enough
and lucky enough to beat the odds
and make it with the Buffalo Bills.
Teal left his
mark at A&M by
I placing fourth on
the Aggies’ all-
I time receiving list
I with 74 career
I catches. Teal was
I also fourth on the
list of all-time Aggie receivers with
f 1,258 career reception yards.
During the 1984-85 season, Teal
. led all Aggie receivers with 35
j catches for 631 yards and 6 touch-
| downs, averaging 18 yards per catch.
Teal, taken in the fifth round of
' the 1985 National Football League
| draft, says he thinks he’s a good shot
[ at playing for the Bills.
“They are looking for a wide re-
I ceiver,” says Teal of Buffalo, “be-
I cause they drafted four or five rook-
I ies at my position. They’re looking
hard at who can make it.”
Teal says that it’s difficult to get a
handle on how the Bills’ coaches feel
about his performance so far.
“Hey, right now there are so many
receivers here in camp,” Teal says,
"that the quarterbacks are just
throwing to a spot. You’re just an
other body going through the drills
to (the coaches).”
Teal, who signed a three year con
tract with the Bills, says the team is
looking for a consistent wide re
ceiver, one that can run dependable
pass routes.
“I was clocked at 4.5 seconds in
the 40 (yard run),” Teal says, “and
they’re looking for the type of re
ceiver that I am. I’ve got a snot.”
This week, the Bills’ rookies are
subjected to a grueling session of
team and individual drills to put
each player under the microscope
and the pressure cooker simulta
neously.
“Man, they’re making cuts every
day,” Teal says. “I think there have
been a lot already. Maybe four or
five players have been cut or quit
that I know of.”
Teal says the rookies are up by
6:45 a.m., on the practice field by
9:15 and practice until 11. The sec-
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of even more
club mergers
Former Texas A&M split end Jimmy Teal,
shown above in action against SMU last sea
son, has just signed a three-year with the
NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Teal is one of several
Battalion File Photo
rookie wide outs the Bills chose in the 1985
NFL draft to help surround newly acquired
quarterback Vince Ferragamo with depend-
able, possession-type receivers.
ond set of drills begin at 2:45 p.m.
and go until 4.
Teal laughs and says his day
doesn’t end there. He studies the
pass routes in the playbook and
watches practice films until 10 p.m.
“A full day” as Teal describes it.
“We do mostly team drills,” Teal
says. “We do seven-on-seven passing
drills and some one-on-one stuff.
The two quarterbacks that throw to
us are the back up and Vince Ferra
gamo.”
Ferragamo was acquired by the
Bills in an off-season trade with the
Los Angeles Rams. Ferragamo led
the Rams against the Pittsburgh
Steelers in the 1980 Super Bowl.
“Vince throws pretty well,” Teal
says, “but I’m not too sure yet
whether he’ll get the starting nod
yet. It’s still too early to say.”
And for Teal too, he still has lots
of time to make or break it with the
Bills. Buffalo’s rookies are scheduled
to play the Cleveland Brown rookies
this weekend.
“With so many rookies at my pos
ition,” Teal says, “I figure I might
get a quarter to show what I can do.
“I think that the first big cuts will
be made sometime next week, after
the scrimmages.”
Teal gives an emphatic “NO”
when questioned if playing in the
bitter cold of Buffalo would bother
him. He says he can adjust to the
cold Great Lake winds whipping
through Rich Stadium.
“This is a new situation for me,”
Teal says, “so you just try and go in
and get to know what’s going on.
“I like the team of wide receivers
they’ve got here, they’re all pretty
good.”
But for Teal, he’s hoping those
other rookie receivers aren’t that
good.
Baseball players' union says
owners slowing down talks
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — About a dozen
officials of United States Football
League teams met for six hours at a
Tampa airport hotel Wednesday to
discuss, among other things, possible
mergers between several clubs.
Commissioner Harry Usher said
during a break in the meeting that
some teams have expressed an inter
est to merge with Tampa Bay and
keep the club in Tampa when the
USFL shifts to a fall season in 1986.
Such a move would place the Ban
dits in direct competition with the
National Football League’s Tampa
Bay Buccaneers for fan support, a
situation which current ownership
— which is trying to sell the club —
has said it wants no part of.
Meanwhile, the Tampa Tribune
reported that the Houston Gamblers
may be purchased by interests in
New York and later merge with the
New Jersey Generals. Usher con
firmed that a Gamblers-Generals
merger is a possibility.
Ralph Campbell, Bandits general
manager, denied a report that the
San Antonio Gunslingers might
merge with Tampa Bay.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The baseball play
ers’ union on Thursday accused
management of trying to stall nego
tiations by resubmitting a proposal
to drastically alter procedures for
salary arbitration in the owners’ fa
vor.
“I think their remaking of this
proposal, if that’s what it was, does
not evidence a desire to reach an
agreement,” said Don Fehr, acting
executive director of the Major
League Players Association. “It
seems to be provocative, if not delib
erately so.”
Lee MacPhail, the owners’ chief
negotiator, said management had
made “no new proposals on salary
arbitration. Our stand is the same as
it has been since February. They
have had our basic salary arbitration
proposal in writing since June 12.”
MacPhail did say the arbitration
proposal was submitted Thursday in
formal contract language.
Currently, any player with two
full years of service may submit his
salary dispute to an impartial arbi
trator. The owners’ proposal would
increase the minimum eligibility pe
riod to three years.
In addition, an arbitrator
wouldn’t be allowed to consider for
comparison either the salaries of
free agents or those of players who
signed contracts in the current year.
Another point in the owners’ propo
sal would limit an arbitrator’s award
to double the player’s current salary.
Fehr said tne three-year proposal
would affect 40 percent or more of
his constituents and would drasti
cally diminish a player’s ability to in
crease his salary through any means
but free agency. A player must have
six years of service to become a free
agent.
Thursday was the fourth consec
utive day of meetings between the
two sides in labor talks as they face
an Aug. 6 strike deadline. More
meetings were scheduled for Friday.
Fehr said that for the owners to
make a proposal such as that for sal
ary arbitration so near the strike
deadline, “when we are trying to put
provocative proposals behind us,”
could indicate that the owners want
a confrontation.
“If they want to avoid a confronta
tion,” Fehr said, “they had better do
something about it. But so far, it
looks like that’s what they’re trying
to do.”
Throughout negotiations, Mac
Phail has said the owners will not ne
gotiate the union’s primary demand,
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a $45 million annual increase in pen
sion contributions, unless the union
was willing at the same time to nego
tiate some form of curb on salaries,
such as concessions on arbitration or
a salary cap. Both proposals have
been rejected out of hand by the
union.
MacPhail was asked why, how
ever, the owners would put a salary-
retarding proposal on the table with
out making specific proposals on
pensions.
“We have said that we are pre
pared to compromise on the major
issues,” MacPhail said. “We’re will
ing to improve benefits, but we need
some indication from them that
there will be some quid pro quo,
some give and take.”
MacPhail said that, to this point,-
the union “has given us no indica
tion they will negotiatiate on our
payroll plan, salary arbitration or
anything to hold down salaries. Nor
have they indicated a willingness to
negotiate their pension demands.
All they keep saying is for us to make
a proposal.”
Fehr said the union would not ne
gotiate any proposal which would
curb a players’ ability to increase his
value in a free market.
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