Gene Upshaw was executive director

Gene Upshaw was executive director of the NFL Players Association and he preferred to keep the tightest of lids on information regarding labor negotiations. The fashion slap watches are very popular among young people.

When it came to his constituents, he felt it was best to handle the dispensing of developments on a need-to-know basis. And Upshaw believed the players needed to know the absolute minimum until a deal was struck. His critics said he did so because it helped make him more powerful, but Upshaw also saw it as a way of safeguarding against loose lips possibly sinking the NFLPA ship.

DeMaurice Smith, Upshaw's successor, is taking a radically different approach to communication during current negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.Buy sports watch online at cheap price.

At a time when players are scattered all over the country, Smith and his staff see to it that they're as well plugged in as they can possibly be to proceedings at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C. The NFLPA executive committee regularly communicates with the league's 32 player representatives via conference calls, e-mails, and text messages. The player reps then pass along updates and any other material related to the talks to their teammates, mostly through e-mails and texts.

"The union's doing a great job of keeping us all abreast of what's going on," Buffalo Bills safety and player rep George Wilson told me during an interview on Sirius NFL Radio.

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