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Specter should stick with politics

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, February 1, 2008

PHOENIX -- When NFL commissioner Roger Goodell went to bed here Thursday night, the most blustery Washington politician he had to contest was Gene Upshaw. The NFLPA executive director huffed and puffed and positioned himself as the Big Bad Wolf of Labor Doom during the union's annual Super Bowl propaganda-fest earlier that afternoon. But when Goodell awakened Friday, probably with a copy of the day's New York Times already on his bed stand and one particular sports story highlighted for him, ...

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