Word: donlan
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...strike and are scheduled to resume next Sunday in a heathen form. Desperate dreamers have been running barricades of picketing stars to get to a field where only the best have ever belonged. Players' negotiator Gene Upshaw charged, "Management is trying to bust the union." His opposite number, Jack Donlan, foresaw "six to eight weeks of hard bargaining." Meanwhile, the N.F.L. planned to count any makeshift games in the standings (in order to ensure at least an adjusted TV contract); the advertisers figured to count the audience to determine their own rebates, and the losses all around may be counted...
...uniform college draft bonuses ranging from $500,000 for the first pick ($400,000 for the second, $350,000 for the third) down to $5,000 for the last. The better to reward veterans, says the Management Council's long-standing director, Jack Donlan. The union is cynical. Says Wisconsin Senate-hopeful Ed Garvey, who broke former Raider Lineman Gene Upshaw into the job of labor leader: "In 1982 I honestly had the feeling there would never be another football strike. It was so painful for everyone. But the same voices are back. The expressions are fixed again...
...take $25 million worth of TV commercials, the most irritating pro football season gave way to the most entertaining Super Bowl. The heroic and tragic figures, Washington Fullback John Riggins and Miami Quarterback David Woodley, were clear-cut and equally attractive in different ways, unlike management's Jack Donlan and labor's Ed Garvey. The Redskins won straightforwardly, 27-17, and the Dolphins lost that...
...catalyst-"escape valve," Commissioner Pete Rozelle called him-was Paul Martha, 40, a former Pittsburgh Steeler now a Pittsburgh attorney. Martha is a friend of Steeler President Dan Rooney, who had a large voice in management's negotiations and a much softer voice than Chief Negotiator Jack Donlan's. Martha also has a friendly relationship with Garvey. "Paul went back and forth," Rozelle said. "He was very helpful." Near the end, Garvey's willingness to accept help smacked of desperation. Individual teams were taking votes and signaling a growing inclination to embrace management's earlier offer...
...week after throwing up his hands and going home, Private Mediator Sam Kagel, 73, summoned Jack Donlan, 47, of the management council, and Ed Garvey, 42, of the Players Association, back to the table to "reexamine and reassess." No one was acting hopeful. A "credible" season, as first defined by Commissioner Pete Rozelle, was understood to be no fewer than twelve games. In an unshattered year, the number is 16. But a twelve-game season with two weeks of abbreviated playoffs leading to the Super Bowl on Jan. 30 (a date Rozelle and the owners claim is logistically unalterable) would...