Gene Upshaw Revenue Quotations

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

We're deadlocked. There's nowhere to go. There's no reason to continue meeting. We're too far apart on our economics, and too far apart on revenue sharing, and we'll go to the uncapped year. There won't be an extension.

We don't want to leave it with them, ... They've taken the position that revenue sharing is none of our business. The hell it isn't.

We're not negotiating this in the atmosphere the NHL was in, with teams going out of business. We know what the revenue growth is.

They've taken the concept of designated gross revenue and changed it to total football revenue and basically come up with the same amount they're paying the players now, ... They have not made a proposal to us since we started this whole process. All they say is, 'We reject whatever you want.' Then they say what we want is too much. . . . Once we get to March 2006, when the league calendar starts, as far as we're concerned there's no need to make a deal. If that's what they want, we'll go there too.

The revenue sharing piece is what's keeping this piece from getting done.

It has to be total football revenue this time around.

I continue to believe that the problem lies with the high revenue clubs and the revenue sharing issue. Their refusal to share more revenues is making it worse for everybody -- players, owners, and fans.