USFL players will receive their 1985 playoff...
USFL players will receive their 1985 playoff money by Aug. 15 and will be paid some of their 1986 salaries next spring while the league switches to a fall schedule, Commissioner Harry Usher said.
The playoff money is tied up in court after ABC refused to pay $7 million of its rights fee because teams had moved out of major markets.
The league, attempting to collect, filed suit June 19.
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