Football Players Wages And Salaries

The NFL Players Assn., putting pressure on the league, has financed five victories over the NFL's club owners in courtrooms during the past four months. The five cases: Back Pay--On March 22, a National Labor Relations Board judge, Benjamin Schlesinger, awarded the players $25 million in back salaries after finding that the owners unlawfully discriminated against them during the 1987 strike-lockout. Pensions--On April 1, a U.S.

Backup quarterback Steve Young has agreed to a two-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers that will make him the highest-paid reserve in the NFL. Sources said Young will be paid $4.5 million over two years.

With the No. 1-paying San Francisco 49ers to the north and the always-generous Raiders right next door, the Rams have not been able to escape their reputation as an organization not willing to spend the increasingly big bucks it apparently takes to win Super Bowls these days.

It's Day 1 of the Raiders' post-Marc Wilson era . . . Or is it? As usual in silver and blackdom, there are more questions than answers, by however many questions you wish to pose. A day after Wilson's release was acknowledged in a late-night prepared statement read to a wire service reporter, no Raider official could be reached.