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FRANCHISE NOTES

          RAMS TOUGH: In St. Paul, Banks & Powers report that the
     Trans World Dome staff "had some fun at Minnesotans'
     expense" during yesterday's Vikings-Rams game.  The Rams
     showed clips from the movie "Fargo" on the JumboTron and a
     "still" of Vikings Qngs QB Jeff George's infamous shouting match
     with coach June Jones while they with the Falcons.  The
     Vikings' front-office is "believed to have complained about
     the clips to league personnel," as it is against the rules
     to show movie clips during games (PIONEER PRESS, 1/17). 
          FILLING THE STANDS: In Dallas, Richard Alm profiled the
     efforts used by the city's pro teams "to explain the number
     of no-shows and reduce them."  The Mavs spent $25,000 last
     season to equip ticket takers at Reunion Arena's entrances
     with fingertip scanners, capable of reading bar codes
     printed on tickets and allowing the team to see who uses
     tickets and "who doesn't" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 1/15).
          ROSE BUDS: Pacers G Jalen Rose has talked with CBA
     Owner Isiah Thomas about becoming majority owner in a CBA
     team in Detroit.  Rose: "The CBA is no substitute for the
     NBA, but it's another avenue to create money for the city
     and to bring more excitement to Detroit" (INDY STAR, 1/15).
          MR. JONES, YOU'LL BE ALL RIGHT: Cowboys Owner Jerry
     Jones: "I do own the team.  If I wanted to, I could try to
     coach it" ("Sports Weekly," ESPN, 1/16).
          NOTES: One NHL exec, on Peter Karmanos moving his
     franchise from Hartford to NC: "I just don't think there was
     a whole lot of thought put into that move.  You go there
     [Raleigh] and it's like walking onto a graveyard.  The mood
     is so stale and normally there's nobody in the building"
     (OTTAWA SUN, 1/16)....Former Angels President Richard Brown
     wrote a letter to the L.A. TIMES this week "criticizing"
     Angels GM Bill Stoneman's "claim that the team would contend
     this year."  Brown said that without any player addition,
     the team is "not going to contend."  Brown: "To say
     otherwise is just an insult.  They owe respect to the
     consumer, and the consumer here is the fan.  To say
     something that so patently insults the intelligence of the
     fan is a tremendous mistake" (L.A. TIMES, 1/15).
                                   

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