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NFL soap opera continues with Jets and PatriotsML . Daitl Taoliflhltft ITwo men will try to coach New YorkAssociated PrsssHEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — It figured that in this season of coaching upheaval, the final opening would be filled by two men.Maybe.The New York Jets, forbidden by commissioner Paul Tagliabue from hiring Bill Parcells as their coach-director of football operations until next February, got around that with a bit of inventiveness. They hired Parcells on Tuesday as a consultant for 1997 and picked his longtime aide, Bill Belichick, to coach theupcoming season.Parcells will take over on Feb. 1, 1998, with Belichick becoming his second in command. Maybe.Not surprisingly,' the New England Patriots are challenging New York’s contractual end run. Last week, Tagliabue ruled that only with the Patriots’ permission could Parcells coach or hold any other comparable position for another NFL team this year.“We will immediately ask commissioner Paul Tagliabue to review this agreement between the Jets and Bill Parcells to determine if there has been a violation of Parcells’ agreement with the Patriots and the commissioner’s ruling last week, which prevents him from serving in this de facto coaching position for another NFL team in 1997,’’ the Patriots’ statement said.“This so-called consulting agreement is a transparent farce, the latest in a series of acts by the Jets and Bill Parcells, which further demonstrates it has beentheir intention all along to have Bill Parcells become head coach of the Jets for die ’97 season,” a release from the Patriots said.Parcells insists what the Jets have hired him to do can’t be construed as a coaching position.“I don’t feel the role of consultant, with a limited amount of time and a limited amount of money, can be termed anywhere near a comparable position,” Parcells said.That will be up to Tagliabue to decide. The league said Tuesday “the Jets were neither denied nor given permission to make a consulting agreement with Parcells for 1997.”Eleven NFL coaching jobs have changed hands in the last three months. The Jets’ job opened when Rich Kotite didn’tNew England will ask Tagliabue to rule on Parcells consultingaSee JETS, Page 7Associated PressFOXBORO, Mass. — The appointment of a new coach should have been a happy time for the New England Patriots and owner Robert Kraft. Just like their appearance in the Super Bowl.Both times, though, the joy was ruined by the furor over Bill Parcells, the man the Patriots say is engaging in a “transparent farce” to work for the New York Jets.So while Pete Carroll spent his second day as Patriots coach putting together a staff, the club said Tuesday it will ask NFLcommissioner Paul Tagliabue to stop Parcells’ attempt to become a consultant with the Jets. _“This so-called consulting agreement is a transparent farce,” the Patriots said, the lat-est in a series of acts by the Jets and Bill Parcells which further demonstrates it has been their intention all along to have Bill Parcells become head coach of the Jets for the ’97 season.’Tagliabue ruled last Wednesday that Parcells’ contract with New England prevents him from holding a coaching or comparable position with any other NFL team before Feb. 1, 1998, unless the Patriots give permission.That interpretation still holds, even though the contract expired at midnight Friday, about 12 hours after Parcells said heSee CONSULT, Page 7
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