Upshaw not optimistic

NFL owners set for all-day session

‘The last five years have been awfully good to the owners and awful for the players.’ Gene Upshaw, Players’ union president. (AP Photo) AP Photo

By Ron Borges

Globe Staff / March 2, 2006

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While tight-lipped owners assembled last night at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan to await today's meeting that will likely determine whether the collective bargaining agreement is extended, union chief Gene Upshaw was home in Virginia content he had come as far as he could toward reaching a new agreement. (Full article: 782 words)