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NFL WANTS TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT MILSTEIN-SNYDER BID

          The NFL Finance Committee "wants to see more financial
     documentation supporting" Howard Milstein and Daniel
     Snyder's $800M offer to purchase the Redskins, according to
     Thomas Heath of the WASHINGTON POST.  The eight-member panel
     met for 90 minutes in Atlanta yesterday with league
     financial and legal staffers, the second such meeting since
     Milstein and Snyder reached a deal to buy the Redskins on
     January 11.  NFL Senior VP/Public & Governmental Relations
     Joe Browne said after the meeting that the league "wants to
     examine the Milstein-Snyder offer more closely because of
     its debt, holding out the likelihood that the sale will be
     voted up or down" at the March owners' meeting in Phoenix. 
     Browne: "The proposed sale involves a high level of
     financing -- borrowing."  Though there is some opposition to
     Milstein and Snyder in the NFL, a source on the finance
     committee said that the committee's support of them "will
     hold and they will be approved by the committee and the
     overall ownership" (WASHINGTON POST, 2/16).  League sources
     said that NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue told Milstein "not
     to expect a decision" on the sale until at least April 1,
     meaning the sale might not be voted on during the owners'
     meeting in March (Rick Snider, WASHINGTON TIMES, 2/15).
          ARE MILSTEIN/SNYDER UNITED? MLS Commissioner Doug Logan
     said last week that he "anticipates being contacted by"
     Milstein and Snyder about investing in the DC United if the
     NFL approves their bid for the Redskins, according to Steven
     Goff of the WASHINGTON POST.  The team could provide another
     tenant for Jack Kent Cooke Stadium (WASHINGTON POST, 2/13).

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