Event Date: February 16th, 1983
Event Description: Dixon Mum
Source: Times Picayune
Its first game won't be played until next month, but the United States Football League is already getting its first expansion club. Or so says Jerry Argovitz, the dentist turned sports agent, who disclosed plans yesterday to start a U.S.F.L. team in Houston next year.
Argovitz said that he and a group of fellow investors would pay $6 million for the franchise over the next four years. David Dixon, the New Orleans businessman who has an option on a Houston franchise because of his role in founding the league, declined to discuss the matter.
League officials said they knew nothing of any arrangements between Dixon and Argovitz but noted that the 12-team league had previously announced a plan to add four franchises - in unspecified cities - next year.
Argovitz, who represents many prominent players in salary negotiations with the National Football League, said that to avoid conflict of interest he would sever his business relationships with the players as their contracts ran out.
Story-(NYT-TP)
Photo-(Ball Parks of Baseball)
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