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Article: NFL Owners, Players Resume Talks; Negotiations Finally Focus on Free Agency Issue
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- September 24, 1987
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Negotiators for the 28 National Football League owners and the
league's striking players resumed negotiations Wednesday for the
first time since Sept. 15, meeting nearly nine hours-until 2:20 a.m.
this morning-on the issue of whether to grant the players' demand for
less restrictive free agency. The talks are expected to resume at 10
a.m. today.
After the talks recessed, Brian Holloway, an NFLPA vice
president, said that free agency is no longer the major issue.
"The meat of the negotiations tonight is getting ready to
unfold," Management Council spokesman John Jones said at a midnight
news briefing at the Four Seasons Hotel. "The preliminary work is out
of the way so all the focus is on ...