WAILEA, Hawaii -- As he settled into his seat last year for the most important Players Association meeting in three decades, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck felt the type of butterflies normally associated with a big game. Longtime executive director Gene Upshaw had died unexpectedly from cancer seven months earlier, and now the 32 player representatives were gathered in a conference room at the Fairmont Kea Lani resort to elect the successor who would lead the union into a potentially nasty labor battle with the owners.
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03-24-10, 02:35 AM
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