From: blokhead@leland.Stanford.EDU (Darren Pakying Lum)
Subject: Dallas Cowboys - Charles Haley
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:55:24 GMT

The following are two articles from this morning's newspaper.
The second one is paraphrased.  

Hey, any of you guys in the Dallas/ Texas area, (Pat Power you out
there?) could you paraphrase the column in this mornings Dallas 
Morning News for me?  I'm  sure Tim Cowlinshaw, Randy Galloway, 
or Kevin Blackistone have something to say about this trade.
The Cowboys now have a pass rush, but along with it, they have
to deal with a psychotic crybaby who is NOT a team player.  
I have mixed feelings about this trade.  Could be very good, could
have it's bad sides.  I have hard time accepting Haley as a Cowboy
because I despise the 49er's so much.   Here's some info for all
who are interested to read.  What do you guys think?

P.S. - I think Hennings will end up with a mysterious hamstring
	pull before next monday.  Hill will be gone, and I sure
	hope Noonan remains with the Cowboys!

Any news about Irvin, Step, or Novacek?

(Now with a pass rush...SQUASH THE EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Go Cowboys!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darren

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>From The San Jose Mercury News 8/27/92

Bottom Line: 49ers Want No Bad Apples
				Ann Killion

Charles Haley can be a bad guy.  Believe me, I know firsthand 
how bad he can be.But Haley's also a hell of a football player.  
And one the 49ers need desperately right now.  Haley didn't 
get traded to Dallas because the 49ers need draft picks.  He wasn't 
traded because Tim Harris can replace him.  And he wasn't traded 
because he demanded a trade.  The reason Haley was traded was
beacause he's a bad guy.  The 49ers aren't saying that, of course.
What they are saying publicly is that this parting is best for 
both sides.  "We honestly think that this is the best interest of 
the team," 49ers President Carmen Policy said Wednesday.
	But is it really?  The 49ers once frightenin pass-rush is a 
big question.  Kevin Fagan is still rahabilitating from surgery.  Larry
Roberts got into camp late and migh not be able to repeat
last year's success.  Harris has looked good in camp, but has yet to 
prove himself as a 49er and could still face a six game suspension
for violating the substance abuse policy.  
	A 49ers pass rush is critical.  The secondary is unsettled.
The safeties are untested.  Left cornerback is a question and has
been sinc the 49er's unloaded their last bad apple, Tim Mckyer.	
	The 49ers have made a practice of dumping the malcontents 
the complainers and the hotheads.  In the unloading process, the 
Cowboys and Falcons of the world have gotten richer.  And don't 
think this wasn't an unloading.  Whatever first-round pick the 
49ers get out of this it's unlikely to be a high one.  Because Dallas is
a good team that just got better.  Meanwhile the 49ers are becoming
bland as mayonaise.  This is team that would have no place for a 
John Matuszak, a Ted Hendricks, or a John Riggins.  But football 
players aren't paid to be good citizens.  They're paid to play football.  
And on the field, Haley is good - often great - fooball player.  He is
big quick, mean as broken glass.  
	Problem is he was just as nasty off the field.  To reporters.  To
his teammates.  To just about anyone.  The 49er's tried to 
accomodate him.  They had sociologist Harry Edwards counsel him.
They had Dwaine Board personally coach him.  Sometimes it worked.
On a good day, you'd call Haley a character.  On a good day, he could
be funny and strange.
	But there were a lot of bad days with Haley that embarrassed 
and scared the 49er's.  Apparently, there was a bad day this week 
when he erupted in the locker room.  
	He had a bad day last season, when he went crazy after the 
Raiders game and Ronnie Lott had to be called in to calm him down.
	There was a bad day in 1990 when he harassed a female 
reporter in the locker room.  But he apologized to me.  And despite 
what I felt about Haley, I couldn't deny what he did on the field. 
He made 16 sacks that season and made the Pro Bowl and was NFC
defensive player of the year.
	The 49ers shouldn't encourage players to be jerks.  But as far 
as I know, Haley didn't break any laws.  And if bad behavior and hot 
tempers have no place on the 49ers, ther - theoretically - could be 
vacancies at the top.  
	If I were Tim Harris, I wouldn't get too comfortable in my 
49ers uniform.  Don't forget Harris was shipped out of Green Bay 
for off-field problems.  If he reverts  to his former habits, the 49ers
might have no pass rush at all.

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Paraphrased From San Jose Mercury News

Rages May Have Led to Haley Trade
					by Nancy Gay

The divorce was swift but not unexpected.  Linebacker Charles 
Haley's success filled but stormy six year relationship wit the 49ers
ended wednesday when the Cowboys traded for him with a 
series of conditional draft picks......the trade nets the 49ers the 
Cowboys 2nd round pick in '93, as well as the option of swapping 
draft positions with the Cowboys  in the 1st and 3rd rounds in '93.
If the 49ers decide not to exercise their option to swap 1st rounders
they will receive the Cowboys '94 pick as compensation, team 
sources said.

	In return the Cowboys receive one of the NFL's premier pass 
rushers in Haley, a 3 time Pro Bowl selection who led or tied for the 
team lead in sacks in each of his six seasons.  
	Although his talents as a defensive playmaker were never in 
question, Haley's volatile personality and his clashes with the 49er's
coaches, management, and teammates were the reason behind the 
trade, several 49er's officials said privately.
	That coupled with Haley's numerous public demands to be 
traded, prompted the 49er's  to field offers for him as far back as
last season.  Only one offer was made, a standing one from the 
Cowboys that was discussed as far back as the NFL owner's meetings 
in March, team sources on both sides say.  But term were initially not 
to the 49er's liking.  However, according to several 49ers players and 
a well placed team source, yet another locker room incident 
involving Haley on Tuesday was the final straw that brought about 
the trade.
	The players, who asked to remain unnamed, said that Haley 
became enraged and and violent for an unknown reason and 
screamed repeatedly that he wanted "out of here".  He later calmed 
down and went to Coach George Seiferts office Tuesday afternoon 
to apologize.  But the trade wheels were already in motion...............

"This is something I've wanted for a long time," Haley said Wed.
before quickly exiting the 49ers facility.  In 6 seasons, Haley, the 
49ers 4th round pick in 1986 out of Div II James Madison compiled
63 sacks.  He was NFC Def. Player of the Year in 1990 when he 
posted a career high 16 sacks.

Haley admitted he was expendable after the 49ers aquired Tim
Harris last year.  But the bad blood extended beyond that.

After the 49ers bitter 12-6 loss to the Raiders last Sept., Haley 
launched into a ranting tirade in the locker room, screaming at QB 
Steve Young for throwing 2 ints. and questioning the 49ers game 
plan.  He calmed down only after  former teammate Ronnie Lott was
called in from the opposing locker room to speak to him.

In Oct. Haley went public with his demand to be traded after 
accusing Seifert of humiliating him by showing the defensive line a 
game film of the Eagles defensive unit.

The fact that Harris arrived in camp this summer in superb condition
may have played a part in Haley's departure.  After Haley's trade, 
Seifert announced Harris as the starter in the LB/DE position.


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