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rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence) wrote:
>grantham@beirut.berkeley.edu (Jon Grantham) writes:
>>rich@grebyn.com (Richard Lawrence) wrote:
>>>The Redskins were in the bottom half
>>>of salaries paid the entire time he was here,
>
>>This is not true.  The Redskins are one of the few teams that would be over
>>the salary cap if it were already in place. 
>
>I believe this contradicts Post sources from several years. Do we have a
>way of verifying this?

Redskin Review, March 1993, p.7:
"More bad news:  in 1994, a salary cap of $29 million kicks in.  The Redskins
won Super Bowl XXVI with a $31.1 million player pricetag.  This year's tab
was $34 million, including incentives."

Now, this source doesn't explicitly say that the Redskins pay more than other
teams, but there's no way players would agree to free agency if most teams
were paying more than the salary cap already.  And I have seen other sources
(none of which I can cite off the top of my head) that confirm this.  I
remember hearing about this first on WTEM when I was in Maryland in January.

Jon