Pro Football

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue testified that Philadelphia Eagle owner Norman Braman was repaying a loan he had made to the team when he paid himself $7.5 million in 1990. Tagliabue was in his second day on the stand in the NFL free-agency trial in Minneapolis.

By raising the issue of Braman’s salary, players’ attorney Jim Quinn, who questioned the accuracy of the commissioner’s statements on Braman’s loan, was trying to show the NFL is more profitable than its financial statements suggest.