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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...
Assured that the money was there, Keating talked with his clients. He caught Csonka in Los Angeles, where the fullback was judging Playboy's Bunny of the Year contest. The players agreed to go to Toronto the last weekend in March for their first meeting with Bassett. Before going, Csonka informed Miami Coach Don Shula about the trip...
...produced a compensation proposal for each player. He added a twelve-page memorandum detailing modifications he wanted in the traditional N.F.L. player contract. Finally, he unveiled a six-page memo specifying such "extra considerations" as free housing, free automobiles and off-season employment opportunities. It all sounded fine to Csonka, Kiick and Warfield. The four men set out for cocktails and dinner with Bassett and his associates...
Early Saturday evening, Csonka called Coach Shula and told him that the three men might well sign if Miami did not offer more. Eventually Keating got on the line. "I was afraid the Canadians might rescind or lower their offer if we waited too long," he says, "so I told Don we needed to hear from Joe Robbie [the Miami principal owner] by the next...