Fouts Comes to Collect Check, Chargers Don’t Give Him One
Quarterback Dan Fouts, the only Charger on strike who does not belong to the NFL Players Assn., was not paid by the Chargers Thursday, the deadline set by his agent, on an installment of his $750,000-per-year contract.
Fouts said Thursday he expects to go to litigation to try to receive payment after the club’s business office did not give him a check for the four weeks of the strike. Agent Howard Slusher had set the payment deadline last week.
“My contract says that I must do whatever I can to help the club, and Steve Ortmayer (director of football operations) and Al Saunders (coach) said I could best help them by keeping the striking players together, and working them out, which I have done,” Fouts said. “Yet today in the business office, when I came in for my check, they said it wasn’t ready.”
Ortmayer said, “We have said from the start of the strike, we will pay all players who honor their contracts. Other than that, I have no comment. We don’t discuss contractual matters.”
