A former Los Angeles Express official testified...

A former Los Angeles Express official testified in New York that the United States Football League team, now defunct, may have spent as much as $12 million on player salaries and bonuses in 1984 and apparently made overtures to running back Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys.

Dick Daniels, currently director of player personnel for the Washington Redskins, held a similar position with the Express from February through June of 1984. He testified for the National Football League, which is defending itself in a $1.69-billion antitrust suit brought by the USFL.

Daniels told of the contract the Express gave quarterback Steve Young, which he said, while valued by some at $40 million, worked out to between $5 and $6 million in present-day dollars. Daniels also testified on bank foreclosures on the club’s second owner, J. William Oldenburg, and how the league ultimately took over operation of the team. It was Oldenburg, Daniels said, who talked with Dorsett.