Word: csonka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much would it cost the World Football League to sign Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield?" Ed Keating, who is business representative for the three players, was so startled he nearly dropped his fork. Then he decided the question was not entirely frivolous. After all, it had been asked by his associate at the Cleveland firm International Management Inc., a man who had recently been negotiating a TV contract for the W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin...
Thus began the deal that astonished the sports world last week: Miami Dolphin Running Backs Csonka and Kiick and Wide Receiver Warfield, stalwarts of the Dolphin dynasty, are going to defect to the Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. the season after next, when their present contracts expire. To jump, they signed a joint contract that totals more than $3 million in salary, bonus money and benefits. Csonka will receive close to $1.4 million over a three-year period, Warfield $900,000, and Kiick $700,000 -three to four tunes more than they might have expected from the Dolphins. Further, they...
Bunny Judge. In mid-March, the W.F.L. held a draft of N.F.L. players and Toronto picked Csonka, Warfield and Kiick. Keating immediately ran a check on the Toronto franchise and learned that it was amply bankrolled by several wealthy Canadians. Bassett himself comes from a sports-minded family-his millionaire father, owner of a successful Toronto TV station, was at one time chairman of both the Toronto entry in the Canadian Football League and the Toronto Maple Leafs...
...added every year, and some marginally successful tactics are revised. The Dolphins' most successful new plays in the past few years have been those in the "misdirection" series. In this gambit the ball is faked to Halfback Mercury Morris running a sweep, then handed off to Fullback Larry Csonka. He is supposed to drive up the middle through a hole theoretically created when opposing linemen chase Morris...
...Halfway through the Oakland game," Martin explains, "I began to think about the Super Bowl." He immediately gave Miami a three-point edge because of its overall strength: "They have Larry Csonka powering up the middle. Mercury Morris is unstoppable around the ends, plus you've got Bob Griese at quarterback and Paul Warfield as wide receiver. And you've got that great offensive line. It's a smooth machine." On defense, Martin thinks "Miami is the toughest in the league." Indeed, they have allowed opponents only 11 points per game this season. Figures Martin: "I just...