Irvin Informer Says He Arranged Parties

The man who made a secret videotape of Michael Irvin says he helped a group of Dallas Cowboys players buy a house where they would have wild parties and use drugs.

“They’d mix cocaine and marijuana and smoke it that way,” Dennis Pedini said in an interview broadcast by Fort Worth television station KXAS on Tuesday night.

A former security installer and Cowboys employee, Pedini said he fronted for the unidentified Cowboys players in the purchase of “the White House” near the team’s Valley Ranch workout facility.

Pedini said he made the tape of Irvin because he was angered by the star receiver’s lack of respect for him. The tape purportedly shows Irvin with cocaine. KXAS reported it paid Pedini $6,000.

Kevin Clancy, Irvin’s lawyer, did not immediately return calls for comment Earlier, Clancy disputed that Irvin possessed cocaine. That is what appears to be captured by Pedini’s video made after the player’s April 1 indictment on felony drug charges.

Voters in Nashville, Tenn., approved a referendum to bring the Oilers from Houston to Tennessee for the 1998 season, if not earlier. By a margin of 59 percent to 41 percent, voters made the Oilers the seventh NFL team to relocate since 1982 and the first big league franchise in Tennessee. The team won’t debut in Tennessee before the 1998 season unless Oilers owner Bud Adams negotiates his way out of the two years remaining on his contract to play in Houston’s Astrodome.

The Detroit Lions have signed unrestricted free agent tight end Pete Metzelaars.