National Football League owners presented their players’...

National Football League owners presented their players’ union with a choice of two plans for a new contract, one based on liberalized free agency, the other on increased pension and benefits, but the players almost immediately rejected them.

“This, on its face, is not a means for us to consider when we go to the table,” said Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Assn. “What I have in front of me is worse than what we have discussed and rejected.”

Both plans include unscheduled drug testing, which the players have said they will not accept.