Event Date: Event Date: November 23rd, 1982
Event Description: Thompson Files Suit
Source: New York Times
Jack Thompson, a reserve quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, has filed a Federal breach-of-contract suit in Seattle against the National Football League.
The seldom-used Thompson, a first-round draft choice of the Bengals in 1979, wants to leave the N.F.L. so he can sign a contract with the Michigan Panthers of the new United States Football League.
In other USFL News:
For six football players trying to crack the pros, this may become a special Thanksgiving Day: Contracts were mailed to them yesterday by the New Jersey Generals of the new United States Football League.
The six are the survivors of 570 candidates who were invited to mass tryouts this month by the Generals. After two sessions in Giants Stadium, 16 players were invited back for another look. Now, there are six.
In February, the Generals will take 95 players to their training camp in Orlando, Fla., and only about half will make the team. But the six will have their shot at professional ball.
''We can't identify them yet,'' a spokesman for the team said, ''because the contracts are still in the mail. But all six had college experience, and none of them is a place-kicker. They faced big odds, and still do.''
Story-(NY Times)
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