'83 Chronology-Asking Price

Event Date: February 5th, 1983

Event Description:  Wranglers Pursue Dickerson

Source: NYT

If the United States Football League is supposed to be a low-budget version of the National Football League, somebody had better tell the Arizona Wranglers. The team has already offered Eric Dickerson, the Southern Methodist tailback, $1.5 million for three years, and it is expected to come up with an even higher bid.

That, at least, is the word from Dickerson's agent, Jack Mills, who said he had turned down the $1.5 million on the theory that Dickerson could get much more than that from the National Football League. 

An average of $500,000 a year may seem like a lot, but it would not be a record for the U.S.F.L., according to Mills. He said that S.M.U.'s other star tailback, Craig James, whom Mills does not represent, was getting $2 million over four years from the Washington Federals.

Story-(NYTimes)