In what many considered a referendum on the status quo, NFL player representatives voted to retain DeMaurice Smith as executive director of the union.In voting Sunday by the player reps, it took just one ballot for Smith to gain his third three-year term in charge of the NFL Players Association. He beat eight other candidates by immediately getting a majority of the votes at the union’s annual meeting in Kapalua, Hawaii.Smith won over former NFL players Jason Belser, Sean Gilbert and Robert Griffith. Also on the ballot were James Acho, Arthur McAfee, Rob London, Andrew Smith, and John Stufflebeem.“As a union, it is your duty to decide who should and will lead,” Smith told the board of player reps.