Tuesday, September 8,1987/The Battalion/Page 15
Former Cowboy Hill, Nathan among NFL cuts
From The Associated Press
Moore and Tony Nathan, two
>f the mainstays of the Miami of-
ense for the past decade, and Tony
-hll, a one-time star with Dallas,
vere cut Monday, while the Chicago
Jears put Jim McMahon on injured
eserve with the expectation that he
an help their young quarterbacks
leve lop.
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^■ill, released by Dallas earlier this
ear and picked up by San Fran-
isco. was among a group of veterans
eleiased by the 49ers. They also in-
luded linebackers Tom Cousineau
fid Jim Fahnhorst and running
ack Carl Monroe, who scored the
irst touchdown in the 1985 Super
»ow I.
^■cMahon, who missed the second
alf of last season with a shoulder in-
ry and underwent surgery late last
ar. will have to miss at least six
eeks.
That move at least temporarily
pt a spot on the Bears’ roster for
qijjg Flutie, the 5-foot-9 Heisman
fophy winner. Mike Tomczak has
been starting in McMahon’s place
and Jim Harbaugh, the team’s top
draft pick this year, had been vir
tually guaranteed a spot.
Coach Mike Ditka said McMahon
will spend his time on the sidelines
helping him and coaching the
younger players.
“Even if I have to make McMahon
an assistant coach, I want him to be
out there because the Bears will
need all the help they can get,” Ditka
said.
Moore and Nathan were cut as
Miami made the unusual move of
keeping four quarterbacks — Dan
Marino, Don Strock, Ron Jaworski
and Jim Jensen, who also doubles as
special teams captain and backup
wide receiver. The Dolphins also
placed linebacker Hugh Green back
on injured reserve, where he spent
most of last season with a knee in
jury-
Moore, a 13-year veteran, was the
Dolphins’ all-time leading receiver
with 510 catches for 7,547 yards. Al
though he had 38 receptions for 431
yards and sevfen touchdowns last
year, he was beaten out by free agent
Fred Banks for the fifth receiving
job behind Mark Duper, Mark Clay
ton, James Pruitt and rookie Scott
Schwedes.
The 30-year-old Nathan, an eight-
year veteran; is fourth on the team’s
all-time rushing list with 3,523 yards
and second on the receiving list with
373 receptions.
“I’m not going to dwell on what
has happened,” Moore said. “. . .
That’s a part of football. I’m 35 years
old and football is a young man’s
game.”
Among the other players cut was
defensive end Daryl Sims, Pitts
burgh’s first-round draft pick two
years ago.
The 6-foot-3, 285-pound Sims,
expected to be a force when he was
taken by the Steelers in the first
round of the 1985 draft, never lived
up to his expectations. In two sea
sons of spot play, he had just 14
tackles, four assists and two sacks.
The Cowboys cut veteran place-
kicker Rolf Benirschke; Cleveland
released running back Butch Wool-
folk; Minnesota cut running back
Ted Brown, San Diego cut wide re
ceivers Anthony Hancock and
Bobby Johnson and the New York
Giants released veteran defensive
lineman Curtis McGriff.
The Bears released veteran de
fensive linemen Mike Hartenstine
and Henry Waechter along with
punter Maury Buford. Waechter
trapped New England quarterback
Steve Grogan for safety in the Super
Bowl two years ago. Green Bay cut
backup quarterback Chuck Fusina,
who led the Philadelphia-Baltimore
Stars to two championships in the
defunct USFL.
Buffalo cut veteran offensive
tackle Ken Jones and linebacker Jim
Haslett, a long-time starter out last
year with a knee injury; Houston re
leased veteran defensive end Jesse
Baker, a long-time pass-rushing spe
cialist.
The Los Angeles Raiders placed
Lester Hayes, a 10-year fixture at
cornerback, on injured reserve with
a strained tendon in the left foot that
he broke last season. The 32-year-
old Hayes had started 149 straight
games before missing the last two
last season.
Another starting cornerback,
Perry Williams of the Giants, also
went on the six-week injured reserve
with a neck injury.
Tampa Bay released Don Shula’s
son Mike, a quarterback.
Upshaw calls NFL owners 7 proposal 'garbage'
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Management Council on Monday
jave its players union a new propo-
al it said can provide “the essential
rlements” for settlement of the con
tact impasse that could result in a
Mayers strike within two weeks.
But Gene Upshaw, the executive
lirector of the NFL Players Associa-
ion termed the document “gar-
»agt
■ahe 14-page summary, prepared
>ver the weekend by council offi-
ials, was presented to Upshaw, ex-
;cufive director of the NFL Players
Vssoi Mtion, shortly after noon EDT.
t was mailed about two hours later
o the 28 NFL teams.
Mfhe presentation comes one day
>efore the league’s player represen-
atiyes meet in Washington to set a
trike date. It is expected to come af
ter the second week of the season,
which opens Sunday, with an option
to wait another two weeks.
The only talks since Aug. 14 took
E lace for 4 , /2 hours in Washington
ist week and they broke off over the
issue of protection for player rep
resentatives.
Despite Upshaw’s denunciation of
Donlan’s proposal, both sides said
they were willing to meet again. Up
shaw said they had talked on Sunday
and expected to be back in contact
Thursday, after both sides have had
their meetings.
Donlan said in his cover letter to
Upshaw that because of the lack of
talks the proposal “has been devel
oped in a virtual vacuum without the
benefit of assistance from the
NFLPA.”
Upshaw, however, said he agreed
with only one thing — that the
length of the contract be three years.
“It was just what I expected. Now we
have just seven points to go,” he said
in a reference to the union’s 8-point
proposal.
The management proposal is sim
ilar in some elements to the Manage
ment Council presentation at the on
set of talks on April 20.
It continues intact, for example,
the current system of free agency
under which only one player has
changed teams in 10 years, although
it upgrades the compensation to
what the council calls more realistic
levels. Free agency without compen
sation is one of the union’s principal
demands.
But even the liberalized compen
sation would be rather restrictive.
For example, Gary Reasons, a
starting linebacker on the New York
Giants’ Super Bowl champion team
is currently holding out for a salary
reported to be more than $400,000 a
year. The Giants are offering
around $300,000.
If Reasons, considered the fourth
best linebacker on the Giants, were
to be paid what he wants by another
team, it would have to surrender to
New York under the new proposal
two No. 1 draft choices. Even if the
team paid him what the Giants are
offering, it would have to give up a
No. 1.
The new proposal does, however,
increase player pensions by about 20
percent over current levels and ups
severance pay considerably.
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