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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...
...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...
...announced that I needed to use the bathroom. There was no reaction. On the second attempt, Larry got the hint and he followed me down the hall. When I told him, he gave me a bear hug." Keating took two more trips to the men's room with Warfield and Kiick...