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...issues are complicated (see box). Though both sides seem to be talking about the same amount of money-$1.6 billion, larger than the budget of a dozen states-the philosophical difference on how that money should be allocated is a gulf without horizons. Union Head Ed Garvey is insistent that the players be paid out of a union-managed fund, and the owners, through the person of tough-guy Labor Expert Jack Donlan, are adamant that the policy of individual negotiations continue. Those charming fellows on the periphery of sport known as "player agents" are behind the owners this time...
...rumpled enough for a labor leader, never managing to appear as weary and wise as his baseball counterpart, Marvin Miller, or as old, Garvey, 42, has been taken as a lightweight villain around the sport for twelve years. "Garvey wants power," says Gene Klein, who owns the San Diego Chargers. "He's trying to put himself in the position of czar. He fell on his face before, and he'll fall on his face again." Knowing his is a face that does not exactly warm the cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over...
...money-is not all there is to this case, however. The issue, explains Sam Huff, a former New York Giants star and now a hotel executive, "is power and who will control pro football. Is it going to be Pete Rozelle, or is it going to be Ed Garvey...
...lines are well dug in on both sides. For the players, Garvey, the executive director of the N.F.L.P.A., argues that they are not proposing gridiron socialism as charged; they are trying to respond to a well-oiled socialist industry, unprecedented in American business. The N.F.L.'s new fiveyear, $2.1 billion television package, for example, is to be divided equally among its franchises. Whether Super Bowl winner or cellar inhabitant, whether smoothly or badly run, each team is to get the same $11.8 million share of this year's TV income. The result is a $600 million-a-year...
...owners respond to all of these points with some reasonableness. The men in the helmets do deserve a generous raise, say their bosses, but Garvey and the players' representatives want to undermine critical management prerogatives. When the talks began last February, the union demanded 55% of the league's gross income, to be taken off the top and divvied up among the players according to the union's formula. Two weeks ago, Garvey came off the 55% proposal to demand 50% of the N.F.L.'s TV income, plus considerable other monies. But more important, the union...