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JERRY JONES SAYS HE WON'T DEAL WITH THE LEAGUE ON SUIT

     NBC's Mike Ditka, a critic of Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones,
interviewed Jones on a range of topics:
     THE NON-CAP:  Ditka:  "The salary cap -- the whole spirit of
what it was meant to be has been destroyed by the National
Football League.  People have found a way to go [around] it.  It
wasn't mean to be that.  In my opinion, the salary cap should say
this:  'You've got $35 million to spend.  I don't care how you
spend it, but it counts in the year you spend it.'"  Jones
agreed:  "Let's either have it or not have it.  If they want to
run through a crack, I'm gonna knock a damn hole in it."
     SMALL-MARKET WOES:  Ditka, on the NFL's tradition of "united
we stand, divided we fall" and the plight of the small markets:
"Where's it gonna stop? ... You tell me, if the Chicago Bears
don't belong in Chicago, where the hell do they belong?"  Jones:
"As we look forward ten years from now, we need to have 20 or 25
great new stadiums.  Because, hockey and basketball and baseball
-- boy, they're going to be playing in state-of-the-art.  And
this great game that you and I really do care about -- it can't
become a studio game ... It's got to have the pageantry and the
aura of thousands of fans in great stadiums."
     THE SUIT:  Ditka asked if the leagued dropped its suit
against Jones, would he drop his.  Jones:  "No, I would not.  Why
not?  Basically, they were not well-founded. ... There were only
really four owners that ever analyzed what I was doing with my
marketing policies.  It was done out of emotion.  Now after
reflecting on it, after talking, then there's no question in my
mind that my suit was not done of emotion.  My suit has a basis,
my suit has a goal to let the clubs do their own marketing.  All
of us know that in the end we're going to be together, and we're
going to have to live --"  Ditka:  "Not if you sue each other to
death, you're not."  Jones:  "And I agree with you."  Ditka:
"Drop the suits.  Talk to the league.  You drop yours, they'll
drop yours.  Get your buddy out in Oakland to drop his.  Let's
out this thing back on the track.  The NFL's not right about all
the decisions made, and maybe in your case, they might have been
dead wrong.  But in my case, two wrongs don't make a right."
Jones:  "I hope that my lawsuit will bring forth the facts for
all the owners to see, that how we have done our marketing in the
past -- how we have let some clubs do it, not let others do it --
 I hope that the dialogue that goes with that and the information
will create a forum that will resolve this thing" ("NFL Live,"
11/19).
     PERSUASIVE MAN:  Ditka said later Jones did change his mind
on marketing.  Ditka:  "I think they have a right to market their
ballclub the way they see fit."  But NBC's Joe Gibbs said Jones'
point on stadiums was a "real negative":  "In other words, money
instead of tradition" (NBC, 11/19).     BATTLE OF THE LITIGANTS:
ESPN's Hank Goldberg called Cowboys-Raiders, the "first annual
NFL Plaintiff Bowl.  The winner gets to sue first"
("SportsSunday," ESPN, 11/19).

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