dday@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (03/13/86)
In article <2064@bmcg.UUCP> marc@bmcg.UUCP (Marc Lee) writes: >How about the other Super Bowl team? Any word on Richard Dent's status? >Is there realistically any chance of signing Todd Bell or Al Harris? Richard Dent was recently offerred a 3 year, $1.8 million contract. He's asking for $2.28 million for 3 years (don't ask me why 2.28). Bears GM Jerry Vainisi said Dent could take it or leave it. After Bell and Harris, I would say that this is not just a bluff. Dent should take it. I believe it would make him the 3rd or 4th highest paid Bear, after McMahon, Payton, and (maybe) Dan Hampton. (Actually, if you include outside endorsement income, Wiliam Perry is probably making more than anybody right now {cf. current issue of SI}. Hampton said that they were going to make a movie of Perry's life story called "The Endorser"). I believe that there is a good chance that Harris will be traded and that Bell will be signed, but this is just a guess. Harris has already said he wants to be traded because he has too many hard feelings toward the Bears. Maybe he'll go to the Eagles. Buddy Ryan always said Harris was worth his asking price, so let him pay it! The Bears could get some help in the secondary in return. That's one reason the Bears really would like to sign Bell. The secondary is thin now that Leslie Frazier will be out for the '86 season. (Dennis McKinnon is not going to play in '86 either, knee problems.) I saw a notice the other day that really sorta stunned me. There was Mike Ditka saying that he would be "interested" in the Dallas Cowboys head coaching position when Landry retires. For the past 3 years he has repeatedly said that the Bears head coaching position was the job he most wanted in pro football! What gives, Mike?! -- UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!dday Dennis Doubleday CSNet: dday@umcp-cs University of Maryland ARPA: dday@brillig.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742 Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-6154