Mr. FATSIS: Yeah, Upshaw's death comes at a very sensitive time in player-owner relations in football.

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But two years later, while BP has relinquished some control, it remains a 50 percent owner and relations have improved.

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Is there about to be, by the way, a new era in owner-player relations in the NFL?

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Tyler Barnett, owner of a public-relations agency in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Patricia Vaccarino, owner of Xanthus Communications LLC, a public-relations firm in New York and Seattle, doesn't allow her four employees to pass around Girl Scout cookie or other order forms while on the clock.

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Shari Bayer, owner of culinary and hospitality PR company Bayer Public Relations (BPR), started out in restaurants, went to culinary school, then landed at a PR firm before realizing she really wanted to work for herself.

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