Gene Upshaw
Gene Upshaw
Eugene Thurman Upshaw, Jr., also known as "Uptown Gene", was an American football player for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League and later the NFL. He later served as the executive director of the National Football League Players' Association. In 1987, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is also the only player in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl in three different decades with the same team...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth15 August 1945
CityRobstown, TX
basketball beginning far happened last moved moving owners pace proposal sound totally
It's beginning to sound like that movie 'Groundhog Day.' They give us the same thing over and over and over. Their last proposal to us was totally unacceptable. You see what happened to hockey. Now basketball is moving in the same direction. I don't see us as being too far off the pace from those two. For some reason, the owners have not moved the ball at all.
changed march
Nothing has changed that would change (the situation) by March 3.
concerned final protect rights takes whatever
Everyone is really concerned we're getting down to that final deadline. We will do whatever it takes to protect the rights of the players.
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They've taken the concept of designated gross revenue and changed it to total football revenue and basically come up with the same amount they're paying the players now, ... They have not made a proposal to us since we started this whole process. All they say is, 'We reject whatever you want.' Then they say what we want is too much. . . . Once we get to March 2006, when the league calendar starts, as far as we're concerned there's no need to make a deal. If that's what they want, we'll go there too.
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It's absolutely crazy. We're like the gang that can't shoot straight. I would never have agreed to move the deadline unless they acceded to my financial conditions. I want to go to bed, too. But once they agreed to take our proposal to the owners, I had no choice.
holding model
It's actually our model that they have been holding up as the way to go.
additional fair player position taking
We are taking the position that's additional punishment. It's not fair to a player not to have an additional chance.
poker price stay
The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.
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The price of poker will go up. We cannot settle and will not agree to stay in the same place we are.
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Unless something is going on ... that I've not seen in the last day or two, we're just not there yet. I'm not putting a lot of faith in that we're going to reach agreement in the next couple of days.
apart farther
We're farther apart now than we were when we got started. If we get to the uncapped year, we won't come back, or else we'll do what we have to do.
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We're further apart now than when we started. For anyone to believe that we're close is just not reality.
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We're not asking them to play him, we can't force them to do that. But if they're not going to let him come back to practice and do all the other things associated with that, then we want them to cut him, let him become a free agent now.
asking force
We're not asking them to play him, we can't force them to do that,