More Clubs, Realignment Are in View for NFL

NFL committees and Commissioner Paul Tagliabue recommended to club owners in Chicago Thursday that the league realign as early as 1992 and add two more teams by 1993.

The addition of two teams could mean multimillion-dollar windfalls for each of the 28 current teams. In 1976, the last time the NFL expanded, Seattle and Tampa Bay each paid a $16-million franchise fee. There have been reports that a new franchise would have to pay an entry fee as high as $100 million.

Tagliabue said the expansion decision will be made by late 1991 or early ’92 to permit play in ’93.