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Article: NFL, Players Say Labor `Deal Is Off'; Team Owners Balk at Free Agency Terms
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- The Washington Post
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- December 31, 1992
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A tentative deal for labor peace in the National Football
League blew up late last night with representatives of the NFL
Players Association saying the owners backtracked on free agency
after both sides had said last week they had reached a tentative
settlement on a new agreement.
"The deal is off, it's all over, they backed away from it,"
Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association told
The Washington Post early this morning. "It's amazing to me that
when it all finally came down to free agency for the players, they
said `no way.' "
The main stumbling block to reaching an agreement was the
owners' insistence on a free agency system that would have tied
players to ...