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| By The Associated Press Association executive director Gene
Smiled negotiations jeopard,/ed a Upshaw said he was waiting for a call
>| second week of NI L play Saturday from Donlan
M as the union revealed that it too may "Thn i .
, ' i nt issue ol tree agency clearlv is
stage makeup games during tin* wi.,. . .... y ,.y\
.. - "sic siutk, Jones said. "I
"I s,r' c' . it* think there needs to be further con?wnc,s
"'ar ow? Plai'H sideratiou from the union end "
| to Mage games with non-union The union has asked for free agenplayers
beginning Sunday, while Ihe cy wilhou. compensation for players
1 union confirmed thai a na.ional net- with four years' NFL experience.
work had offered to telev.se games Management has made small concesIa
hetwcell players who were on strike. sions in the amount of compensation
$9 I ",C,WOrk reportedly was the Fox that would be awarded to a team los/!
Broadcasting Co. ;
.us u nee-agent player.
Several former Gamecock players Upshaw said management was
have defied the picket lines with purposely stalling negotiations in an
plans of participation it the NI L attempt to "divide and conquer" the
plays strike games with non-union union.
38 players. "Their strategy is to test the
They arc quarterback Mike Hold, players, to see if the players are willdefensive
lineman Emanuel Weaver, ing to take a stand," Upshaw said,
kicker Scott Haglcr, punter Tim "lart u-- " * "
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3 O'Connor and running back Thomas not going to sit by the phone and wait
[;] Dendy. for the call," Upshaw said. "I'm goAll
this came amid charges that ing out to talk to my players, and
management was using the issue of we're planning things for those scab
:'i free agency to cover up a union- games." Upshaw said the AFL-CIO
'i breaking scheme. Three days of and Teamsters were among other
| negotiations ended Friday in unions "willing to support us."
i Philadelphia with no further talks In many NFL cities, picketing apg
scheduled as the strike entered its peared to taper off, except in Min|
w fifth day Saturday. nesota. About 20 Vikings picketed
John Jones, a spokesman for the outside their training camp in order
NFL Management Council, said it to confront non-union players who
didn't appear the two sides could were arriving for the first time to
! meet again before Thursday. practice. There were no reports of
Jack Donlan, NFLMC executive violence, however, at any camp
director, had staff meetings and con- where non-strikers were preparing
ference calls with owners scheduled for owners' makeup games.
[ for Monday, Tuesday and Wcdncs- In Atlanta, the combined Sunday
day, "so our agenda is pretty much editions of The Journal and Con
g ovi uiiin ins ciiu (ji me week, Jones stitution reported that Fox Broadsaid.
And that posed a clcar threat to casting Co., the fledgling fourth nancxt
weekend's games. tional network, had talked to the
When NFL Commissioner Pete union about staging games among
I Rozelle called off this weekend's teams made up of striking players,
j game, he waited until this past Thurs- Although Upshaw would not name
day before making the announce- the network, he confirmed the union
mcnt. By that time, it had become had been approached with such a
clear that it was too late to save the deal. He said he would give it
r weekend's schedule. "serious consideration."
During the 1982 strike, the union
"Hopefully, we can get something staged several all-star games that
fruitful going next week in the wav of won* ? i--- : j *
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negotiations," Rozelle said public. Upshaw said these games
Saturday. "wouldn't be all-star games, but
Jones indicated the next move was rather the same teams that are now
up to the union, while NFL Players out on strike."
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