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General managers of 26 National Football League (NFL) teams attended a seminar conducted at Harvard this week by Business School professors on the strategies and techniques of contract negotiations...
...increasing number of professional football players represented by agents with negotiating skill triggered the need for this unusual seminar, Rusty Martin, administrative coordinator of the NFL Management Council said yesterday. Martin added that the seminar instructed managers not to "depress future salaries," but to "recognize bargaining strategies and techniques being used against them...
...seminar may be used as a "foundation" for the NFL to stem conditions which have led other sports to "price themselves out of the market," Jack Donlan, executive director of the NFL Management Council, said...
...would be surprised if the general managers didn't have positive reactions--knowing they were coming here to skew the union. I'd expect them to leave gleeful, smiling and jumping," Donald Brodie, assistant executive director of NFL players associations said...
Linebackers Frank Lemaster and Bill Bergey, seasoned veterans, are vicious. But the key to the Eagle defense is lightning-quick Jerry Robinson, perhaps the best defensive player in the NFC--or best overall--this year. Built to cope with the explosion in passing offense in the NFL over the last few years, Robinson is an omnipresent force...