Let’s Open the Mail Bag and Take the Rubber Band Off Stack of ’87 : Lots of Weak Links

EDITOR’S NOTE: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1987, and reflect the leading issues and events discussed in Viewpoint during that period.

Gene Upshaw is wrongly being blamed for the collapse of the NFLPA. The guilty parties are the players who voted to strike, but were too selfish to stay on the picket line after missing some paychecks. A union is only as strong as its members and this one quickly showed how weak it was.

BILL NOYES

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