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CBA extension latest accomplishment for Upshaw

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Editor's Note: ESPN.com senior writer Greg Garber profiled Gene Upshaw in March, 2006. Upshaw died on Thursday at the age of 63. The following is Garber's 2006 story as it ran then: The mood of the conference call was charged, approaching angry. On a day in early March, with 13 years of labor peace on the verge of evaporating into anarchy, the executive committee of the National Football League Management Council vented. "Let's call his bluff," said one owner, referring to Gene Upshaw, execu ...

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