European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 Upshaw Hopes plan b sacked new York a while some of the familiar names in the nil were expected to become plan b free agents Union chief Gene Upshaw expects play ers to Challenge the concept. Obviously i m not in favor of plan a Upshaw said thursday night in a Telephone interview from Washington. This will definitely be challenged in  Upshaw s argument is that the better players in the league with perhaps the exception of new York giants running Back Joe Morris arc not free. Morris. New York s career Rushing Leader missed All of last season with a broken foot. The giants will choose not to protect the 29-year-old Morris when nil teams announce their 37-Man lists of players who cannot become free agents Accord ing to a published report. Ill explore every Opportunity and see what s Best for my family Morris told newsway after learning late thursday he would not be protected Friday by the team he helped Lead to a super bowl Victory in january 1987. The giants also will not protect 32 year old Ottis Anderson who replaced Morris and rushed for 1,023 Yards in leading new York to the pfc East title in 1989. The super bowl Champion san fran Cisco 49ers reportedly will leave nine year defensive Back Eric Wright unprotected. Wright is one of five 49crs who played for the team s four super bowl winners. Other Well known 49ers not being protected arc linebackers Jim Fahnhorst Matt Millen. Kcena Turner and Riki Ellison and defensive linemen Jim Bun and Pete Kugler. The Seattle so Hawks were not expected to protect running Back Curt Warner whose production has slipped because of injury and the Overall decline of the team. Tight end Ozzie new some who has . Boomers Back of work Miami not with hard feelings Over contracts still Evi Dent the . Soccer team was to return to Competition Friday night after two months off joining Costa Rica. Colombia and Uruguay in the Marlboro cup of Miami. All four teams arc bound for the 1990 world cup in june in Italy. During a recent training Camp in san Diego. 16 team members were offered contracts by the . Soccer federation Worth up to $40.000 for one year. The players regarded them As Lake it or leave it deals inasmuch As the federation declined to bargain individually or collectively. Fearing they had no leverage and they might be replaced with others More eager to play in Italy 14 players accepted most of them reluctantly by the Jan. 14 deadline. Paul Caligiuri the midfielder whose goal beat Trinidad and to Bago and David Vanole a goal keeper refused. The next Day the federation withdrew its offers. In protest. Vanole left the team. Cali Giuri has remained in Camp. Nil i unprotected list on Page 24 caught More passes than any player at that position and defensive Back Han Ford Dixon were not protected by the Cleveland Browns. Defensive lineman de too tall Jones defensive backs Bill Bates and eve arson Walls and Center Tom Raffurty the last links to the championship years of the Dallas cowboys also May change teams. Tight end Clarence Kay running Back Sammy Winder and offensive linemen Keith Bishop and Bill Bryan were not protected by the Denver Broncos. The new England patriots May be say ing goodbye to to of their most popular players quarterbacks Doug Flutie and Steve Grogan. Quarterback Bobby Hebon who lost his Job last season to John Fourcade and defensive Back Dave Waymor arc not expected to return to new Orleans. Wide receiver Mike Quick a pro Bowler until a knee injury put him Down last season was not protected by the Philadelphia eagles. Quarterback Doug Williams who led Washington to a super bowl Victory to Cap the 1987 season Heads a list of unprotected redskins. Other longtime redskins on their Way out Are defensive Back Barry Wilburn. Offensive linemen Russ Grimm and Joe Jacoby and line Backer Monte Coleman. Morris reportedly was unhappy the giants put him on injured Reserve feel ing that he could have contributed in the second half of the season. Aside from Morris presence As a plan b free agent most players left unprotected Are past their prime or players of less than Star status. They still punish players who play Well Upshaw said. Any time you have a system that punishes players who play Well it in t a very Good  the giants Joe Morris and Washington s Doug Williams Hare been left unprotected. The a Flea. As part of its labor Battle with owners has said it is de certifying itself As their representative. But Upshaw predicted a lawsuit against plan b. It s like saying Larry Bird can t be a free agent because he scores too much Upshaw said. Or How about Rickey Henderson being told he can t be a free agent because he steals too Many bases plan b free agents can negotiate with any team other than their own prior to april i. After the april i cutoff last year Many players decided to take pay cuts to remain with their teams. Among those who May do that this year is Pittsburgh cornerback Dwayne Woodruff the Only remaining St Clur with a super bowl ring from the team s glory years. There is Little Chance Woodruff a practising lawyer in the off season will sign with another team but he is uncomfortable with the situation. They feel that if they can leave me unprotected i won t go anyplace and they can protect a Young player  the redskins Williams sat out most of last season with a Back injury. I m not really bitter because i under stand the  the 34-year-old quarterback said. I feel the most important thing for me is to wait it out and Sec what happens. I want to play football in 1990." so docs Art still but he knows it won t be with the Buffalo Bills. Still was openly critical of coach Marv Levy say ing Levy was t honest about the 34-year defensive end s playing time last season. I always thought Marv was a pretty straight up  still said after the Bills were eliminated from the playoffs. But he said things behind my  among still s teammates who Don t figure to be protected arc 32-year-old nose tackle Fred Smerlas and offensive Captain Joe Devlin a 35-year-old guard. West to meet East German style from wire reports Stockholm Sweden West Ger Many and East Germany whose National soccer teams have Only met once before were drawn into the same qualifying group Friday for the 1992 european soc cer championships in Sweden. The two German teams were selected for group 5 along with Belgium Wales and Luxembourg during the draw held at Stockholm s City Hall. A record total of 34 european nations including the Faroe islands for the first time were drawn into seven round Robin groups. Play will begin next year with each group Winner joining automatic Host Sweden in the championship. Group 3, featuring Italy and the soviet Union turned out to be perhaps the Tough est of them All. Also chosen to play in that group were Hungary Norway and Cyprus. The soviet Union beaten by the Netherlands 2-0 in the 1988 european final in West Germany was left outside the group of seven seeded teams thurs Day on a complicated tie breaking Rule. Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton could t resist a chuckle when he saw his Side drawn to meet England the third straight time they will meet in a major tournament. I had to smile when the draw came through said Charlton. Bobby Robson and i seem destined to keep running into each other in major championships. I m Happy enough about the draw 1992 european soccer championship draw Stockholm up Friday � draw for to european Soce  to to new so non 1992 group i spa i Cioc notion franc Iceland Albania groups Romania Scotland Bulgaria swirl Erland san Marino group Naly user Hungary Norway Cyprus group Hugo Slana Denmark  Ireland Faroe islands groups win Germany Tatt Germany Matoi Luff Bourg group i hound Portugal group 7 England round Poland Turku by but we won t worn about it until after the world cup  at the Headquarters of England s football association the reaction was one of astonishment. It is quite remarkable we should be drawn against Ireland three times in a Row like this said a spokesman David Bloomfield. In fact we have had hard keen Lus sols with All three nations in our group in either the world cup or european tournament  England and Ireland arc in the Only four nation qualifying group along with Poland and Turkey. The other groups All have five  will consider cancelling us exhibition with Turkey in May Charlton said. The match was to be part of ire land s preparations for the world cup in Italy in june. Sepp Pic Nick the West German coach who raised the danish National soccer team to Europe s top level in the 1980s. Friday resigned in bitterness after Media accusations of tax evasion. Piontek. 49, look Over the danish team in 1979 and was about to sign a new six year contract when an article in a danish tabloid Friday prompted him to resign. When they describe me As a criminal that s enough said Piontek in Stock Holm to attend the draw. Piontek s financial circumstances have been brought up in a series of articles in Denmark recently. Some tabloids claimed he made 5 million Kroner $800,000 a year and that he hid the Money in foreign tax havens. The danish soccer association said Piontek made 1.5 million Kroner $240.000