Event Date: October 16th, 1985
Event Description: NFL League Meetings
Source: UPI
National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, claiming baseball's drug problems will hurt football as well, Tuesday said he favors expanding the NFL's drug testing program.
Rozelle, speaking during the annual fall league meeting, said some owners want to make additional drug testing part of the next collective bargaining agreement with the players' association. The current agreement expires after the 1986 season.
"A number of owners have said they would like to have more liberalized drug testing," Rozelle said. "I'd like to see it, too."
Rozelle also said there was no indication that any NFL owners would be receptive to absorbing one or more USFL clubs.
“I haven't had any club suggest it to me,” he said.
The proposal to use instant replays to aid in making certain officials' decisions during this season's playoff games and Super Bowl will be voted on Wednesday.
Issues decided Tuesday include:
-- The college draft was set for April 29. All 15 rounds will be held on one day, with one slight change in the drafting format -- teams will have 10 minutes rather than 15 to make their second-round selections. Clubs still have 15 minutes in the first round and five minutes in rounds 3-12.
-- The voice amplication experiment used in two preseason games this year will continue during next year's exhibition season. The experiment involves a radio system in the players' helmets to make quarterback signals clearer.
The clubs will also discuss Wednesday scheduling another exhibition game in London. A preseason game was played there in 1984, and Rozelle said Great Britain is a potential television market.
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