Pete Rozelle, just a few years into his thirty-year tenure as league commissioner, responded swiftly.
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Inside the NFL's Manhattan offices, the USFL was greeted by commissioner Pete Rozelle as something of a joke.
"You can't just show a snippet that makes it seem worse than it is, " said Rozelle, the Stetson University professor.
"You can't just show a snippet that makes it seem worse than it is, " said Rozelle, the Stetson University law professor.
Either way, Rozelle says, criminals' trumpeting their crimes is nothing new.
Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle never could have imagined the behemoth that is the modern NFL when he resorted to these numerals in 1971 for Super Bowl V.
Quaint summerhouses dating back to the 1920s bring visitors to Rodd Island, a former biological research station nestled in Iron Cove near the Sydney suburb of Rozelle.
Rozelle, NFL commissioner from 1960 to 1989, was the guy in charge when NFL merged with the American Football League, created the Super Bowl and started Monday Night Football.
Once in the league he rose quickly, working in the 1980s with Commissioner Pete Rozelle, the NFL's visionary founding father, and later as the right-hand man of Rozelle's successor, Paul Tagliabue.
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Pete Rozelle settled on The AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
As much as the explosion of Fantasy Football leagues, office pools, gambling and television have clearly made the National Football League the dominant sport in the country, the foundation was laid by former commissioner Pete Rozelle and the father-son duo of Steve and Ed Sabol, who founded NFL Films in 1964.
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