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Union promises to ‘haunt’ free agent games
NEW YORK (AP) — The union
vowed to stop Sunday’s replacement
games, while an owner accused strik
ing players of “willful destruction,”
as tne NFL walkout entered its
eighth day Tuesday with the two
sides locked in a battle for control of
football.
While the two sides in the strike
exchanged National Labor Relations
Board complaints, fans lined up at
stadiums to get their money back
Tuesday, the deadline for season
ticket-holders to collect full refunds.
Members of the NFL executive
committee met in New York, while
union head Gene Upshaw continued
his nationwide inspirational tour of
players, speaking in Atlanta.
Facing the near certainty that
owners would go ahead with plans to
play Sunday using rookies, free
agents and veterans who were will
ing to cross picket lines, Upshaw
took a hard line in his Atlanta stop.
“We don’t advocate violence, but
we do advocate doing whatever’s
necessary to stop these games, and
we will do it,” Upshaw said after
meeting with representatives of six
teams.
“We’ll haunt those games,” Up
shaw said. “They are really tearing
down our product, and we don’t like
it."
Before going into the executive
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committee meeting, Miami’s Joe
Robbie said owners were more
strongly united than ever, and “I
think we’ll get stronger after we play
Sunday’s games. This fight is over
control of football, it’s not over
money.”
Thirteen games last Sunday and
the Monday night game were wiped
out by the strike, and owners appar
ently were going to decide at Tues
day’s meeting whether to play them
later. Hugh Culverhouse, Tampa
Bay owner, has indicated the games
will not be made up.
One game wiped out was at the
Dolphins’ new stadium, a privately
financed edifice named Joe Robbie
Stadium.
“I just had the biggest gate in the
history of pro football wiped out
Sunday,” Robbie said. “It seems to
me just willful destruction to wipe
out a game like that.”
Upshaw flew from his Washing
ton offices to Los Angeles to meet
with West Coast players Sunday, was
in Cleveland and Chicago on Mon
day, and was due at Elizabeth, N.J.,
after the Atlanta stop later Tuesday.
In Atlanta, Upshaw reiterated
that the union was solidly behind the
strike, despite decisions by some vet
erans to cross picket lines. “The
owners think if a couple of people
trickle in, we’ll all cross,” Upshaw
said, “and that’s not going to hap
pen. We speak with one voice.”
In Cincinnati, some striking
Bengals were angered by the deci
sion of 11-year veteran linebacker
Reggie Williams to defy the strike
and play Sunday.
Bengals wide receiver Cris
Collinsworth said Williams’ decision
didn’t surprise him, but the timing
was bad.
“I wanted him to cross right
away,” Collinsworth said. “Then it
would have been clear he wasn’t with
us from the start. This makes it look
like our union is cracking under
pressure, and that could encourage
the owners to mistakenly think they
can completely break us.”
Reserve quarterback Turk Scho-
nert said it might be “a long year — a
quiet year” for Williams, “but maybe
Reggie is happy with that and
doesn’t need any friends on the
team.”
By noon, there were about 80
people standing in line to get re
funds at the Los Angeles Raiders’
camp in El Segundo, Calif. A1 LoCa-
sale, Raiders executive assistant, said
he had no idea how many ticket-
holders had asked for refunds.
Cleveland spokesman Bob Eller
said about 10,500 of 78,000 tickets
sold for the Browns’ Monday night
game against Denver had been re
turned for refunds. Eller said the
demand for refunds appeared to
ease up Tuesday.
In Dallas, Cowboys Coach Tom
Landry said he thought fans were
making a mistake by turning in their
tickets, which cost about $23 apiece.
In New York, the NLRB said
Tuesday that it had received “a
whole mess” of charges from both
sides, alleging bad-faith bargaining,
among other things.
Dan Silverman of the NLRB said
the union also had filed a series of
charges “of attempts to interfere
with the union’s right to picket in
Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City and
Hempstead, N.Y.,” where the New
York Jets train. _
Bookies unsure on status of non-union games
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — On
any normal weekday during the
NFL season, oddsmakers on the
city's glittering Strip would be hap-
)ily accepting thousands of dollars
n wagers on the weekend games, se
cure in the knowledge they would
triumph over the bettors.
Tuesday, however, the boards
posted no odds and the football bet
ting windows remained empty while
oddsmakers huddled together in an
unprecedented meeting to try to
make some sense out of this week
end’s matchups.
“There are so many question
marks that it’s hard to talk intelli
gently about it,” said Sonny Reizner,
executive director of the Frontier
Hotel sports book.
Bookmakers were caught in a
quandry on betting on the NFL
games because most of the regular
players are on strike and the teams
are composed mainly of free agents
and castoffs. None really want to
take the risk of making lines on the
games, but competition among the
books dictates that almost all will
take the bets.
To cut possible losses, bookmak
ers say they will severely limit bets,
taking perhaps $500 on a game they
might have taken $20,000 on in pre
strike days.
“The biggest thing we worry
about is how can we put up a line on
Thursday, and then on Saturday the
gamblers find out before us that Joe
Montana or Dan Fouts will play,”
said Jimmy Vaccaro, manager of the
Golden Nugget sports book.
Most bookmakers say the lines,
which generally are posted immedi
ately after the previous week’s
games, will not be put up until
Thursday at the earliest. Some may
wait longer.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see a
lot of people not put it up until the
day of the games,” said Michael Rox-
borough, a consultant to 25 sports
books, who generally puts out the
first football point spreads each
week.
Most of the city’s bookmakers
gathered Tuesday at the Golden
Nugget, where Vaccaro called them
together so each could get a better
feel for their competitor’s plans for
the weekend games.
“It’s a general discussion on what
everyone’s going to do with it, as far
as the limits and so forth,” Vaccaro
said. “I’d like to hear how high
they’re going to book it, who is going
to put up the line first.”
Vaccaro said he plans to put up a
line Thursday and may offer bets of
up to $ 1,000 a game on the weekend
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