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NFL players c NEW YORK (AP) ? Striking National Football League players are talking about jumping en masse to the United States Football League, and Chet Simmons, commissioner of the uar li, is ucgiiuiiug iu wunaer 11 me NFL is thinking about jumping on the fledgling league. The NFL Management Council is proposing, in the negotiations to end the 45-day-old players' strike, a series of provisions which would, in effect, penalize the new league and any players who might head its way. A number of player representatives at the negotiation site visited Simmons' midtown office a few blocks away and said if they became free agents through voided contracts, large chunks of NFL rosters could jump to the USFL, which opens its first season next March. Don Hasselback, player rep for the New England Patriots, also mentioned that the union will give to the USFL a list of 352 names of NFL On Nov. 18th we're asking every smoker to quit for 24 hours. And well even help. Just ask us for a free "Lariy Hagman optcicu OlU(J OI11UIMI1 Wrist Snappin* Red Rubber Band!' You might find that not smoking can be habit-forming. The Great Jiia American tfEPf Smokeout , American Cancer Society This space contributed as a public service. I. 4^^Subscribe to the ^ 3 lrvi/%r>^\oL viai i ICLV/Lll I call I 777-7866 onsider changing players due to become free agents on Feb. 1. And Ed Garvev. executive director of the union, said NFL players could legally sign "futures" contracts with USFL teams, as Larry Csonka and Paul Warfield did in the 1970s with the now-defunct World Football League. Among the proposals reportedly being made by the NFL Management Council, the owners' bargaining unit, in this current round of negotiations: ? Moving the NFL college draft from late April to Feb. 1, about the same time the USFL plans to conduct its draft. ? Adding mid-round draft choices for the poorer teams in each year's draft (a bottom-of-the-ladder team might get an extra selection in the sixth or seventh rounds, for example), reducing the available pool of talent. ? A year's severance-pay penalty for any player who leaves the NFL for another league and then returns in a diKcpniiont uoar < A (ivo.voar nlaimp PL1.1, .,1 Bf f - = fe-. : . a mm: fefe.v^i... ate". I^Hn^^.,:. ( \ - -.. . -. -. .-r-.v- .^ '. -n-~;-.-v-V.i t &1982 Miller BfeWirtg Co., Milwaukee, Wis. ' ' )leagues for example, who joins another league, comes back to the NFL a few years later and retires one year after that would not get severance-pay credit for that sixth NFL year). ? Additional draft selections for expansion teams, likewise reducing players who might opt for the USFL. The severance part of the package now on the bargaining table is new to the thinking of NFL ownership. There is no severance pay now. The owners are offering severance tied to their proposed minimum-salary schedule, to begin with vested players (those in the league after three games of their caacnn^ ii/ut vii / But under the Management Council proposal, the severance would be paid "immediately following the third game of the NFL regular season next following the player's leaving the NFL or any oth^r professional football league, whichever occurs later." II^IF^jT_v" .''Z-"i 'l-TT-r1-;, ^r-i i~_~i'i'?i-z?^Lrzi-- ' D- -' '-""v ^ "-T;iLj*or^?^' "c"ij~'; W .?*, . . - 111 - SXZ-? U" " ~ \ IsZ '?.?:: '11 i-.r/JlJCiiU^~'-'if" '-:- ^r?7i= ~-if ' ;^- x- ?s&j I kk| MMBHMBfiHBBtM % *: tf&-."::.?' * .. -.dT^::-'.-?::.V.. .:,^T. V '*'*': /* H ~ P p - -T-^ ~ Pi -T, : I 1 | "~J' _ ~ "" ~ ' - r - R? ?W| - Bg Hb '.v^?h BHK^SwSKSZBBBHH^^ > > $ ^ - - , . Tm,w3gggggzE " ?i Mon.-Fri. 7:00am-1:00am I 9 Sat. & Sun. I 1:00am-12 .00 midnight I AToweT The Big Bird 7714455 ! i s Luncheon and Supper ^ $ outtet | f l Includes Meat, 3 Vegetables, I , lit Rjlf", Roll* and Iced Tea. Expires I L?.hh&L?.J ^00t'^ut I Out door 2 on 2 | j * Co-Rec Basketball [ \ Entries due: Tues. Nov. 9th p Win a Thanksgiving Turkey ! * A *fl j I | ^ 1 1 v^O*".' Wm - : | l J I I Hi WB A m |J B I >J ft T ^Mp*~ >,; ^ Ik. lofl ^HlP9i r 'Wk, : ^^MW^p^ilPP ^:m^m ? ^ -.^6 ' ?JM ^rV^.--^,: TmB ; : :,y:\ :.; . ' ''''^'i^fr^inHi flB Hp^' ,-^a ' ii (iiLi'ii i ,^fliT3 JSfeRNH Br jjm i _n-^?v NHHHH| F jmMHHBBRS n' ^^H|:m^ JH 1 jMSiMr klBliW JhSSH r- S . . ' 'V. xF EVERYTHING YOU AWnSmNTED IN A BEER. AND LESS.