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FL has priorities in pension-plan line
By Doug Hall
Assistant Sports Editor
So what if the NFL players asso
ciation decides to strike for the sec-
Jond time in the past five years?
After all, it does have just reason,
■ doesn’t it?
The owners
[want compen
sation for free Vi©WpOini
[agents w ho
jump ship for
more lucrative waters.
The players say no.
The owners want a wage scale im
plemented for incoming rookies.
That way, they can avoid the player’s
attitude of, “Well, Vinny got $8 mil-
|lion and Brian got $11 million and I
won’t sign for less than 95 percent of
|what they signed for.”
Naturally, the players say that’s a
definite no go, or in the words of
Gris Carter’s lawyer, a restraint of
trade.
So the only way the player’s can
[convince the owners to give in, is to
(strike, just like any self-respecting
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union. In doing so, they will hit the
owners right where it counts — in
the pocketbook.
The 1982 player’s strike, which
lasted 57 days, cost the owners an es
timated $150 million.
But just like in 1982, the owners
will be able to absorb their losses and
hold on. Meanwhile, the season will
be shortened, fans will be embit
tered, the players will return out of
shape and the season will be shot.
But don’t think the players are be
ing selfish about all of this.
The current rumor, supposedly
spread by the owners’ representa
tives, has it that the players will walk
the chalk after the third week of the
season, at which time they will have
qualified for another year’s pension.
That means at worst, the players
will have played three games out of a
minimum 16-game schedule — and
qualify for full pension benefits. Ev
eryone should negotiate such a con
tract. Nothing like an annual thir
teen-week vacation to stimulate the
of American economy.
As important as football is to this
country, you’d think Congress might
pass a law forbidding such a strike.
After all, the President does call the
Superbowl winners each year.
Or maybe Reagan will can the
players like he did the air traffic con
trollers.
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Oilers and Cowboys: Who’s worse?
By Loyd Brumfield
Sports Editor
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apartrae Washington and Penn State,
resident g 0 suc f, abundant talent
the impact ar0 und, shouldn’t Texas be blessed
hu h eliminatt^K t0 p q Ua lity pro teams of its own?
Let’s use the “Indiana Rule” to il
lustrate Texas’ current plight. In
diana is considered the nation’s
number one basketball state bar
none, but look at what NBA team it’s
stuck with: the Pacers.
Now back to Texas. Over the
years, the Houston Oilers and the
Dallas Cowboys have been riding a
fast train to football oblivion, and so
far all signs indicate improvement
will be hard to come by in 1987.
Texas football fanatics will get a
special treat when these two behe
moths face off Saturday at 8 p.m. in
Texas Stadium in a game that has all
the earmarks of being one of the
most boring sporting events ever.
Even worse than celebrity golf.
Take the Cowboys, for instance.
Dallas has scored a whopping two
touchdowns in three preseason
games. The Cowboys have also been
outscored by a combined score of
66-23. The Oilers have had a little
bit more offensive success. They
move the ball fine until they get into
what A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill
calls the “red zone” — anything in
side the 20-yard line. Houston has
been averaging 1.3 touchdowns per
game along with 14 points to go with
that.
The signs aren’t all bad for the
Oilers, however. Black-clad Jerry
Glanville, the NFL’s answer to
Zorro, has substituted freely in the
preseason, possibly costing the team
a win or two.
The Cowboys are showing signs of
taking over Houston’s 1986 role as
penalty-prone, bumbling amateurs.
Aging quarterback Danny White,
who is having more than a little trou
ble recovering from last season’s
wrist surgery, suffered three inter
ceptions in two quarters in Dallas’
34-10 defeat at the hands of the Los
Angeles Raiders last Sunday.
Backup Steve Pelluer had two in
terceptions of his own in completing
only one of his first eight passes.
The Cowboys have an excuse for
their woes — they’re getting old.
The Oilers, however, have no such
luck. By now, Houston should be
able to line up toe-to-toe against the
best of the NFL and win. The talent
has been there for three years now.
Glanville keeps rehashing that tired
old line about the Oilers needing
time, though.
Maybe Glanville wants owner Bud
Adams and General Manager Ladd
Herzeg, the NFL’s answer to Laurel
and Hardy, to lose more quality
draft picks like Jim Everett and Ber-
nie Kosar. Those guys are now going
great guns for the Los Angeles Rams
and the Cleveland Browns. Ob
viously, Herzeg and Adams are only
taunting top draft pick Alonzo
Highsmith. They’ll ship him off to
Tampa Bay or Indianapolis and he’ll
score 29 touchdowns for them.
Come Saturday, Oiler punter Lee
Johnson will mishandle a snap and
will be tackled in the end zone for a
safety after being knocked around
for a 30-yard loss.
Ho-hum. Cowboys win 9-7 on
three Rolf Benirschke field goals.
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But don’t hold your breath.
It’s not like both sides didn’t know
the contract was running out and
that there were major differences to
be resolved. But instead of getting
something done, the player’s union
fiddles around until they can put
some real pressure on the owners.
Naturally, both sides, which last
met Aug. 15, say the other is at fault
for the lack of progress.
Jack Donlan, chief negotiator for
the owners says, “We’re ready nego
tiate any time, any place.”
On the players behalf, NFLPA ex
ecutive director Gene Upshaw says,
“Eventually we’ll get down to bar
gaining. We intend to bargain with
the other side, we intend to reach an
agreement with the other side.”
Thanks for the reassurance Gene,
just make sure your boys don’t hit
the high roads until after both the
Oilers and Cowboys are 0-3. We’d
hate to see them lose all those pen
sion benefits.
Volleyballers open
with Lamar tonight
By Tammy Hedgpeth
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M women’s vol
leyball team is hungry for
matches.
The Lamar University Lady
Cardinals, however, will try to
curb the Lady Aggies’ appetite in
a match tonight at 7:30 p.m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
“They’re tired of playing them
selves,” A&M Coach A1 Givens
said. “We need feedback to see
where we stand. Lamar is much
like ourselves — young and ag
gressive. It will be a competitive,
aggressive match.”
Givens said although the Lady
Aggies are a young team, they
have great potential due to as-
trong positive attitude.
“We have a very cohesive
group,” he said. “Their overall at
titude is positive. They comple
ment the University and each
other so well.”
The Aggies are not lacking ex
perience. Junior Cheri Steensma
and sophomore Kelli Kellen will
Michelle Whitwell
return to the court as starters. Se
nior Michelle Whitwell, who
started only part time in 1986,
has earned a starting position and
sophomore Yvonne Van Brandt,
a back court specialist last season,
will start at center.
The Lady Aggies are hoping to
improve their 1986 record of 23-
14, which left them trailing perre-
nial powerhouse Texas in the
Southwest Conference race.
Essink chooses retirement;
Cowboys’ injury list grows
IRVING (AP) — Veteran offen
sive tackle Ron Essink, acquired by
the Dallas Cowboys from Seattle last
week, announced Tuesday he is re
tiring because an elbow injury makes
it impossible for him to play.
The Cowboys lost an undisclosed
1988 draft pick because the trade
with Seattle was not conditional on
Essink making the team.
As part of their cuts to meet the
60-man roster, the Cowboys on
Tuesday waived kickers Luis Zende-
jas of Arizona State and David Trout
of Pittsburgh. Dallas acquired vet
eran kicker Rolf Benirschke from
the San Diego Chargers on Monday
for an undisclosed draft choice.
Also cut were linebackers Dale
Jones of Tennessee and Russ Swan
of Virginia, running back Gerald!
White of Michigan, and center Mike!
Zentic of Oklahoma State.
Placed on the injured reserve list,*
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Florida A&M, with a wrist injury;*
defensive tackle Mike Makins of*
Tennessee-Chattanooga, with a neck*
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Virginia, with an ankle injury; guard!
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