REGIONAL DeFazio accuses NFL team owners of bribery WASHINGTON (AP) - NFl. owners art; threatening to pull complimentary Super Bowl tickets from congressmen who oppose their effort to ban sports lotteries, Rep. Peter DeFazio charged Wednesday. Representatives of profes sional sports also are using ex pansion teams as bargaining chips to garner votes for the measure to outlaw the lotteries, the Oregon Democrat said. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Steve Greenberg, deputy baseball commissioner, are among those who have tes tified before Congress in favor of outlawing the gambling games. The games offer payoffs to wagerers who pick a series of NFL or NBA winners. But DeFazio. whose state runs the only such game in op eration. said the more effective lobbying effort is taking place behind the scenes as team own ers and others "overtly and im plicitly" threaten to take away lawmakers' free tickets to the Super Bowl. "That’s as offensive as a ma jor industry calling me up and saying. 'Well, we were going to give you a campaign contribu tion, but we are going to with hold it until we see how you vote on this bill'." he said in an interview. DeFazio said several sources have reported such activity to bis office and that several mem bers of Congress have told him they have been contacted by a local team owner or prominent sports figure. "In sort of a half-joking way. they ask me if I am going to be able to get them Super Bowl tickets (to replace the compli mentary ones) I would say the frequency that I hear this so called joke leads me to believe there is some truth to it." he said "It's a cheap vote for them because right now it only af fects Oregon and it puts them in good with the fat tats of pro fessional sports." DeFazio said. Kven more important finan cially. he; said, is the threat that leagues will refuse to consider expansion teams for states where representatives oppose RAISE A THOUSAND IN A WEEK Hie fundraiser that’s working on 1800 college campuses! Your campus group can earn up to $1000 in just one week. No investment needed. Be first on your campus. A FREE gift just for calling. Call Now 1 -800-765-8472 Elt.90 the ban on sports lotteries "The franchise threats I have not heard first-hand, but I have heard it is going on at the state level, with mayors and gover nors. It seems to be awfully prevalent.” he said. "They are being told that they may be thinking about a sports lottery but they better back off: other wist;. they are not going to get an expansion team.” Officials for the NR. and Ma jor league baseball offices in New York said no one was im mediately available for com ment. A spokesman for Rep. John Bryant. D-Texas. a spon sor of the ban. said the charges were "nonsense.” IJeFazio said Super Bowl tickets carry much weight with lawmakers "Sports an? the most com mon trivial conversations around hen* If you are not talk ing about politics you are talk ing about sports," he said "I'm hoping when we talk about this on the floor (of the House) we can shame some of these folks into standing up to these sports bullies." he said. Oregon's lottery netted the state about $2.6 million last year, its first year in operation, with a portion of the profit go ing to support Oregon's inter collegiate athletics. Oamblers are given a chance to wager $1 on a game card by picking the winners of a series of NFL or NBA games. Jackpots are divided among those who pick all the winning teams cor rectly. "The Oregon sports lottery Is simply the office pool on a slightly larger scale." said a letter signer! by Oregon's entire congressional delegation. The NBA has sued in an ef fort to halt the game. Hackers of the ban on such lotteries - included in the omni bus crime bill |>ending before Congress - argue that state sanctioned gambling compro mises the integrity of sports. "I can think of no greater threat to an athlete's personal sense of accomplishment than gnvornmentally sanctioned sports gambling." said former Cincinnati Hengals linebacker Reggie Williams, now a Cincin nati City Council member. Tagliabue told a congression al subcommittee this summer the gambling games will "cre ate ii (lervasive dir of suspicion about controversial plays in NF1. Kamos "They will come to repre sent. . the fast buck, the quick fix. the desire to Kot something for nothing," he said. Oregon Lottery Director |im Davey told the same (>anel that professional sports leagues should concentrate their anti gambling efforts on Nevada, where billions of dollars are wagered on the outcome of games "Who would In? more likely to try to fix a football game? 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