Rozelle to Ease Way for NFL to Get Flutie

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle will talk with the Buffalo Bills and any other teams interested in Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie to facilitate his league’s battle with the USFL’s New Jersey Generals for the Heisman Trophy winner’s services in 1985.

“From my talks with Doug, he is leaning very strongly to signing with Donald Trump and the Generals,” said Bob Woolf, Flutie’s attorney. “The talks have progressed very nicely.”

Rozelle said Woolf had contacted him in order to learn if the Bills, the team with the first pick in the April 30 NFL draft, are serious about his client.

“Yes, Flutie representatives have talked to me through people in the league and they would like to find out what interest the league has in him,” Rozelle said. “He’s getting pressure to sign from Donald Trump.

“The Buffalo Bills, of course, have the right to Flutie if they want, unless they were to trade this right or say they won’t take him. The NFL draft is April 30, but this has to be done very quickly because it’s tough on Flutie, his agent and his father to have that offer from the Generals.”

Dallas Cowboys fullback Ron Springs was free on bond following a disturbance at a topless bar in north Dallas where two police officers were assaulted, authorities said.

Springs, 28, was arrested about 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Million Dollar Saloon, police Sgt. J.J. Degan said.

Degan said police were called to the nightclub after Springs had been asked, and refused, to leave after “trying to grab at one of the dancers on the floor.”

The Army has notified the U.S. Modern Pentathlon Assn. it will no longer support the training of Olympic athletes in the sport.

Army Secretary John Marsh Jr., notified USMPA President Danny Steinman of the decision in a letter last month. Also notified was William Simon, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Marsh gave no reason for the decision in his letter.

The Army has supported modern pentathlon since it became an Olympic sport in 1912.

Names in the News Denver Nuggets center Dan Issel, 36, will retire at the end of the season, Coach Doug Moe said.