'83 Chronology-Communication Breakdown?

Event Date: January 29th, 1983

Event Description: Mind the Gap

Source: New York Times

The way the communications major was telling it yesterday, the contract negotiations with the cable television operator have reached ''an impasse.'' The way the cable television operator was telling it, the talks will be back on the track as soon as the details of the complicated job offer are properly explained.

The cable television operator is Alan Harmon, who also owns the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League. The communications major is Dan Marino, who also played quarterback for the University of Pittsburgh. 

Harmon said that Marino's statement was ''a negotiating tactic'' by the quarterback's agent, Nick Buoniconti. ''There's more than money involved,'' said Mr. Harmon, insisting that his offer included ''far-reaching'' opportunities for Marino, in television as well as on the field. As for money, Mr. Harmon declined to discuss it, but said it was more than Marino could hope to get from the National Football League.

In other USFL news;

Tim Mazzetti, the second-leading scorer in Atlanta Falcons' history with 233 points from 1978 to 1981, has signed as a place-kicker with the Boston Breakers of the United States Football League. 

Mazzetti, 26 years old, who has worked for the last two years as a sportscaster in Atlanta, twice kicked 54-yard field goals during his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the National Football League.

Story-(New York Times)