Gene Upshaw

...Green and others -- whether offering personal tales of woe or sticking up for others -- is directed mostly at NFL Players Assn. head Gene Upshaw, who notoriously denied a connection between game-time concussions and increased instances of...

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...likely to go away and could adversely affect fans of the nation's most popular sport. A little history In 2006, the late Gene Upshaw, former head of the NFLPA, brokered an extension of the collective bargaining agreement that would...

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...elected to the Pro Bowl (1978) and started three games for the 1980 Oakland Raiders. Dave Pear daily practiced against Gene Upshaw and Art Shell. Dave Pear can barely walk. A neck injury he suffered in 1979 has left him permanently...

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...negotiates on behalf of current and former NFL players. He's only the fourth leader in the association's 41-year history succeeding Gene Upshaw, who died suddenly last year, only days after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

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...an agreement before then. </p><p>The old contract was negotiated in 2006 by then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue and then-union head Gene Upshaw, who passed away last year. Posted on Wed, Nov. 04, 2009 09:11 AM Goodell, Smith to join NFL...

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...have an agreement before then. The old contract was negotiated in 2006 by then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue and then-union head Gene Upshaw, who died last year. The convoluted ouster of George Kokinis as Cleveland's general manager barely...

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...have an agreement before then. The old contract was negotiated in 2006 by then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue and then-union head Gene Upshaw, who passed away last year. Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press The Cowboys-Eagles Week 9...

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