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PRO FOOTBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE NFL : Marino Redoes Deal to Woo Deion

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<i> Associated Press</i>

Miami quarterback Dan Marino has accepted a restructured contract to help the team’s bid for free agent cornerback Deion Sanders. The agreement doesn’t represent a pay cut over the life of the contract, but an NFL source said nearly $1 million that Marino was to receive this year will be deferred until 1995 and ’96.

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Quarterback Randall Cunningham and other Philadelphia Eagles have offered to postpone receiving part of their salaries so six teammates won’t have to take 30% pay cuts. “I’d be willing to defer some money to the future so guys wouldn’t have to take pay cuts,” Cunningham told the Philadelphia Inquirer, which said receiver Fred Barnett and others had made the same offer. . . . The Seattle Seahawks will play at least their first two games at Husky Stadium instead of in the Kingdome, which has been closed since July 19 because of ceiling problems. The Seahawks announced that the Sept. 18 game against San Diego and the Sept. 25 game against Pittsburgh will be played in the University of Washington stadium.

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