Event Date: January 19th, 1983
Event Description: Backer White to Blitz
Source: United Press International/Chicago Sun
Veteran Detroit Lions' linebacker Stan White Wednesday formally became fhe first active NFL player to jump to the new USFL when he signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Blitz.
White, 33, said his signing may cause a chain reaction among other established NFL players. But White and Blitz Coach George Allen denied that White's defection will trigger a bidding war reminiscent of the one between the NFL and the old AFL in the 1960s.
“There doesn't have to be a bidding war," Allen said. 'The NFL doesn't have a monopoly on players but we're not trying to start a bidding war.”
In other USFL news;
Mike Friede, a former wide receiver with the New York Giants of the National Football League, has signed a contract with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, it was announced Wednesday.
Negotiation rights to Friede were acquired by New Jersey from the Arizona Wranglers in exchange for the negotiating rights to running back Elvis Peacock.
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