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
cut players
Many of those players would have been cut anyway.
poker price stay
The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.
agree cannot poker price settle stay
The price of poker will go up. We cannot settle and will not agree to stay in the same place we are.
asked encourage game name people saying trying unless win
What we're trying to do is encourage people to participate. You can not win unless you get in the game. You've got to get into the game and you've got to put your name out there. What Herman was saying is everyone that's asked should play the game.
dollars higher
We want to have a higher percentage. We want more dollars to come into the system.
continue gave prior proposal quite rejected saw worse
They gave us a new proposal, which was worse than their prior offer. Quite naturally, we rejected that proposal and saw no need to continue meeting.
gave less proposal share
They gave me a proposal that is actually less than what we're getting. All we want is our share that we've been getting.
anyone beyond cap deal expects less obviously players sell
There obviously will not be a cap beyond 2006. So if anyone expects me to make a deal to sell the players on making less money, I'm not going to do that.
absolutely agreed deadline financial gang move proposal shoot unless
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.
agent agreed approval break caused complete deadline earlier evening extend free indicate midnight nfl order owners package previous proposal provide rejection talks therefore time tonight until vote wednesday
The NFL negotiators called us tonight to indicate that they will take our complete package to the owners for an approval vote on Tuesday. We have therefore agreed to extend the free agent deadline until midnight Wednesday in order to provide time for that vote to be accomplished. It was the NFL's previous rejection of our proposal earlier this evening that caused the talks to break down.
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.
anyone apart believe close further reality
We're further apart now than when we started. For anyone to believe that we're close is just not reality.
agent asking associated cut force free practice sports
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.