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TV Deal Apparently PutsAFL in Business To StayMIAMI BEACH, Flai (AP)-The American Football League is here to stay. That. is the hard-to*swaliow fact that owners of National Football League clubs had lo admit today in the wake of the rival pro league’s new $36 million television contract.“The new television contract stabilizes .the. other league,’’ said an NFL club official who wished to : remain anonymous. “It gives them substance. Now they are big league.”'The day when the two league champions may meet in a title playoff still may be far in the future,'At least there was no Inclination to hasten the. day at the. NFL meetings which end today.’ “We have no such plans” said Commissioner Pete Kozelie just as he had been saying for weeks and months.ASKED TO comment on the AFL • c o n t r a c t, Rozelle said only,- “We. are concerned only with our own National Football League..' And we are very hdppy.” • :The NFL /had : reasons to be happy/.-too, with ;its.. iwo-yeatr $28.'2: midion;teieyislon deal with the.- Columbia. Bro’adcasting Sys-tem;'. Eachiof the14 'clubs- will get; about $1. million.However, the. new AFL contract-, will-bring-each of its eight member teams approximately $900,000 for each of the next five years.- - •to the veterans in the 1964 season.“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” said, one club observer. “Wait until .they start chasing thdse college kids-after next. Decern--bcr’s draft Now is the time to raise your kid to be a football player,” .-The furious dollar bidding In the past, few weeks gave CBS the NFL games and NBC .the AFL as...well; -as the.; college games' and /three of the ; New Year's Day/bawl contes.ts. The • .American . 'Broadcasting Company will:be' out of the major' football business after its current contract with the AFL expires following the 1964 season.-..--. ■:: For./the ^moment,/ ABC has a bargain;with;.one more year/at a -reported. $2.35 million. on/an AFL package /that already has been sold'.for $35 million for the next 'five/y:ears, ''• Pro fooibail will cost the tele: vision networks about/$25 million this -year. In addition to the $14.1 million for /the NFL - and $7.2- 'million; for 'the AFL, the two title games, still ’open Tor bidsy ;probably will be; worth about $2: million each: A head-on conflict every Sunday after-neiwork Showing 'pro . ‘double-headed ..from coast to coast..: ,;The. television news shadowed the normal routine at the NFL meetings. . ...: Ordell Braase of ■ the.; Baltimore / Colts, / hew president/ of theNFL Players Association^ appeared.' before the owners Wednesday and.asked that the players be paid $100 a game for pre-season exhibition instead of the-.present;. $50.' He also asked for player representation on the pension committee;:/Two .'suggestions ..to .. alter playing rules were turned down by the owners;- One would have assessed , a 15-yard penalty: for offside, instead: of live yards, when a defensive player ’knocked down the offensive quarterback. Anothei*- would, have created 'a positiony/for a/sixth official to synchronize the - scoreboard clock with the official clock on the/field.. ./• ,. .. ■ - -.:•.;/ :/Joe; Kuharich, head of • NFL officials, said the rules Already called for/a'15-yard^ penalty - for flagrant- roughing of a quarterback andjleague.-, officials would’ be' insinicted/td ;\vatch carefully for. violations next fall. The rule change was suggested by Bill McPe'ak, coach-general mana-noon is in prospect 'with, each ger of Washington.A SLIDING: scale will take care -of add! 11 o n s .if -there is expansion/ undoubtedly the value of all pro football/franchises leaped skyward in the last six days.The..players look, forward to -aljlhe. happy' prospect .of watching the two leagues engage in an all-out bidding . contest for talent. This .will include more' big bonus payments to college boys next fall. It also will include countless increases in salaries
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 30, 1964
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