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- | ====== January 15, 1961 ====== | + | {{page>1961_news#january |
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- | ===== News ===== | + | |
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- | • After a contentious seven-hour meeting, and with the in-person mediation of AFL commissioner Joe Foss and two lawyers for the league, the team announced that five of the eight owners had | + | |
- | sold their share of the team to the other three | + | |
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- | • [[Don Blessing]], [[Charles Harney]], [[Chet Soda]], [[Roger Lapham]], and [[Wallace Marsh]] were getting out, leaving [[Ed McGah]], [[Robert Osborne]], and [[Wayne Valley]] in control | + | |
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- | • Foss said afterward that if the owners couldn' | + | |
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- | • Per the agreement, McGah would remain as president, with Valley to become vice-president, | + | |
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