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	Paul Tagliabue (1989-2006)
		Tagliabue first became associated with the NFL when he was hired by Covington & Burling, a Washington D. law firm, the NFL's principal outside counsel at the time.
		By 1986 Paul Tagliabue was a full partner with powerful law firm and was representing the NFL in the $1.6 billion antitrust lawsuit brought by the USFL.
		Paul Tagliabue's final year in office may have been his busiest, as he made sure he handed off a healthy league to his successor Roger Goodell.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/comish/tagliabue.html (741 words)

	Paul Tagliabue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul John Tagliabue (born November 24, 1940 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was the Commissioner of the National Football League from 1989 to September 2006, when he retired from office.
		Tagliabue's forebears originate from the vicinity of Como in Lombardy (Lombardia).
		Tagliabue was the third of four children in a working-class family and grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Tagliabue (638 words)

	The Deadbolt - NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue Announces Retirement
		Paul Tagliabue announced his decision first to Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney, then to the rest of the owners via e-mail.
		Paul Tagliabue instituted a revised system of revenue sharing between the owners and the players, and has avoided any work stoppages as a result.
		Paul Tagliabue's successor, which could by Atlanta Falcons' GM Rich McKay, NFL executive Roger Goodell, or a number of other candidates, will inherit a working system which need only be maintained for some time.
	www.thedeadbolt.com /news/030405/tagliabueretires.php (965 words)

	NFL SUPERBOWL
		Tagliabue answered harshly, calling such charges "nonsensical and stupid." He revealed that the NFL tracked between 3,000 and 4,000 players over the last year, which resulted in 26 investigations and 11 convictions.
		Tagliabue gracefully deflected questions about bitter feelings in Baltimore over remarks he once made, football's future in Mexico, wicked quarterback hits by Lewis and Tony Siragusa, Eddie DeBartolo's future in the NFL, and whether casinos in Michigan left him concerned about the integrity of the game in Detroit.
		At 11:30 a.m., with Tagliabue waiting in the wings, Aiello watched the corner of the Florida Ballroom at the Marriott Waterside, where ESPN talents were completing their lead-ins to the address.
	espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs00/010126garber/tagliabue.html (999 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Tagliabue era ending
		Paul Tagliabue, under whom the NFL entered into free agency and reached new levels of prosperity, stadium construction and fan acceptance, announced his resignation yesterday as the league's commissioner.
		Tagliabue, 65, said he was choosing a moment when the NFL has achieved labor accord and long-term television contracts to step away from a position he has held since 1989, when he succeeded Pete Rozelle.
		Tagliabue was an attorney serving the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington and Burling and acting as a lobbyist for the NFL when he was selected as commissioner at a meeting in Chicago nine months after Rozelle retired in March 1989.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/20060321-9999-1s21tagliabu.html (749 words)

	NFL.com - NFL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I think it was pretty clear Paul (Tagliabue) wanted to get the NFL to the television agreements and the most recent labor agreements and that he would feel that he has left the NFL in great stead.
		Paul Tagliabue was instrumental in the increased popularity of the league to a global audience.
		Paul has had a great impact on the fans, players, owners and everyone associated with the league and I will be very sorry to see him go.
	www.nfl.com /news/story/9323471 (3001 words)

	Tagliabue Paul - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tagliabue, Paul, born in 1940, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from 1989 to 2006.
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	encarta.msn.com /Tagliabue_Paul.html (127 words)

	Newsvine - paul-tagliabue
		Paul Tagliabue is leaving the NFL, and he's leaving it both peaceful and prosperous.
		Paul Tagliabue is seriously contemplating ending his 17-year run as NFL commissioner, league sources told ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
		Paul Tagliabue held a press conference earlier today, speaking about the CBA debacle and the future of the NFL.
	www.newsvine.com /paul-tagliabue (236 words)

	BCLS--NFL Commissioner Tagliabue
		Tagliabue took office on November 5, 1989, succeeding Pete Rozelle, who served as NFL Commissioner from 1960 to 1989.
		Tagliabue had represented the NFL as an attorney in important areas, including television, expansion, legislative affairs, franchise moves, labor and antitrust cases.
		Paul John Tagliabue was born in Jersey City, N.J., on November 24, 1940.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/tagliabue.html (482 words)

	NFL.com - NFL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paul Tagliabue oversaw tremendous change in the NFL during his 16 years as commissioner.
		Tagliabue had made no secret that with labor and television deals done, retirement was near.
		Tagliabue will stay on with the NFL as a senior executive and a consultant through 2008, part of the contract extension he signed last July.
	www.nfl.com /news/story/9323440 (663 words)

	Paul Tagliabue
		Typically, there was no fanfare or press conference to announce that Tagliabue, 64, has had his contract extended and will remain as Commissioner until the end of the 2007 season.
		Tagliabue is only the second commissioner the NFL has had.
		They got their way and Tagliabue has steered the ship to success and can rightly be called as the quiet achiever.
	www.clevelandpress.com /paultagliabue.htm (557 words)

	Wilson Official NFL Game Model Football, Authentic Footballs.
		Paul Tagliabue Model used from 1990-2005 being replaced by the Duke NFL leather.
		Tagliabue model used from 1991 to the present.
		The Paul Tagliabue model football is the current football used during the games from 1991 to the present.
	www.americansportscollectibles.com /nflfootballs.html (615 words)

	Y's Annual Dinner Features Speaker Paul Tagliabue
		Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner of the National Football League, talks abut his ties to the Boothbay region, one of the many topics he covered during his appearance as guest speaker at the YMCA's Annual Dinner Meetingheld Monday night, April 3.
		From New Jersey to the NFL Before he introduced Paul Tagliabue, Chip Griffin spent a few minutes reminiscing about the Y as he first knew it, 35 to 40 years ago, when it was housed in the Opera House.
		Paul John Tagliabue, said Griffin in his introduction, was born in Jersey City, N.J., in 1940, the son of immigrants from northern Italy.
	boothbayregister.maine.com /2000-04-06/y_dinner.html (1143 words)

	Paul Tagliabue, Super Bowl XXXIV, Football, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		PAUL TAGLIABUE: Well, I think that the success of these teams, as I suggested earlier, comes not from where they are playing, but from who is doing the playing and who is doing the coaching and who is doing the leading of the organizations.
		PAUL TAGLIABUE: Well, I think the future is that we are going to work as hard as we have worked in the last five years to keep teams where they are and to build new stadiums.
		PAUL TAGLIABUE: We are not giving advice to the Arena Football League on their labor issues.
	www.asapsports.com /football/2000super/012800PT.html (6776 words)

	NFL Playoffs 2002
		Tagliabue also said the NFL is looking into changing what officials are looking for on field goal attempts.
		Tagliabue told Ley what happened in the Giants-49ers wild card game was the most disappointing moment involving officiating in his 13 years as commissioner.
		Tagliabue said the future of the officials involved in the play will be discussed after the Super Bowl.
	espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs02/s/2003/0107/1488896.html (787 words)

	ESPN.com - NFL - Tagliabue to retire in July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NEW YORK -- Paul Tagliabue is leaving the NFL, and he's leaving it both peaceful and prosperous.
		Tagliabue has been in charge since 1989, when he succeeded Pete Rozelle, and agreed last March to stay to complete the TV deal and a long-term contract with players.
		Tagliabue said the search is wide open and that he will stay on beyond July to avoid the kind of seven-month deadlock that occurred between him and the late Jim Finks after Rozelle stepped down in March 1989.
	sports.espn.go.com /nfl/news/story?id=2376850 (1035 words)

	Tagliabue impressed by Glendale stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Super Bowl XXX was held in Sun Devil Stadium in 1996, and Tagliabue and league officials weren't thrilled with the venue.
		Early this year, Tagliabue announced his retirement as commissioner, agreeing to stay on the job until a successor was named.
		Paul Tagliabue, commisioner of the National Football League, speaks to the media during a news conference at the Royal Palms Hotel in Phoenix Thursday.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/cardinals/articles/0616tagliabue0616.html (287 words)

	Roger Goodell chosen to succeed Paul Tagliabue as NFL commissioner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Favoured for months to succeed Paul Tagliabue, the 47-year-old Goodell said he expects to begin serving a five-year term before the regular season starts Sept. 7.
		Goodell's election was much less complicated than Tagliabue's in 1989, when it took owners seven months to select a successor to Rozelle.
		Tagliabue simply introduced Goodell as the new commissioner, then stepped aside as he took the podium.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/football/060808/f0808130.html (729 words)

	nbc4i.com - NFL - NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue Calling It Quits
		Tagliabue announced on Monday that he will officially step down at the end of July.
		The 65-year-old Tagliabue became the league's seventh chief executive on October 26, 1989, succeeding Pete Rozelle, who had announced his retirement in March of that year.
		Tagliabue graduated from Georgetown with a degree in political science and then received his law degree from the New York University School of Law.
	www.nbc4i.com /nfl/8142332/detail.html (571 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		During Paul Tagliabue’s 17-year reign as Commissioner of the National Football League, pro football grew to unparalleled heights.
		Tagliabue was elected to succeed Pete Rozelle on October 26, 1989 to become the seventh chief executive of the NFL.
		At the March 1990 Owners Meetings, Tagliabue and Broadcast Committee Chairman Art Modell announced a new four-year TV deal worth $3.6 billion, which at that time was the largest in television history.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=267 (436 words)

	Paul Tagliabue News - The New York Times
		Paul Tagliabue did not do it alone far from it but he will get the credit for leading the N.F.L. to TV riches, labor peace and a stadium-building boom.
		Paul Tagliabue has presided over the league during a period of remarkable prosperity and peace with its players.
		N.F.L. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, responding to speculation that he may be considering retirement, said that he wanted a smooth transition to his replacement, although he did not give a timetable for his departure.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/t/paul_tagliabue/index.html?inline=nyt-per (546 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NEW YORK (AP) -- Paul Tagliabue is retiring as NFL commissioner in July after more than 16 years on the job.
		Tagliabue's term will be remembered most for labor peace following strikes in 1982 and 1987.
		Before becoming commissioner, Tagliabue was a league lawyer who spent much of that time as the NFL's representative and unofficial lobbyist in Washington.
	www.11alive.com /sports/sports_article.aspx?storyid=77543 (388 words)

	Nfl: Paul Tagliabue, Friend To The Gays - Deadspin
		Anyway, Tagliabue was honored Monday night by PFLAG (for the record, we're glad "lesbians" are included, if just for acronym purposes) for his support to the cause.
		Tagliabue has given "sizable" donations to PFLAG and has been a driving force behind the Stay Close campaign -- his son Drew is a co-founder of the campaign -- which features celebrities and their gay relatives.
		Tagliabue has not yet been featured in one of the ads, but PFLAG says they're trying to recruit athletes to be in the ads with their relatives.
	deadspin.com /sports/nfl/paul-tagliabue-friend-to-the-gays-131058.php (263 words)

	Leaf power outages, Paul Tagliabue NFL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was announced that long time NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue would be stepping down in July from the post that he has held for the past 16 years.
		Tagliabue, who replaced Pete Rozelle in 1989 was a true visionary and whose business sense and savvy made the league billions of dollars, and helped cement public perception of Sunday as not only a day of worship but as the day for NFL Football.
		In 1989 at the time of his arrival the Miami Dolphins were considered to be the most expensive team in the league with an estimated worth of 205 million dollars (289 million in today's value).
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/zawadzki032206.htm (934 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sports \| US Sport \| Kingmaker: Paul Tagliabue
		And the reason lies simply with Paul Tagliabue, a virtual unknown in Europe, but the man responsible for every piece of American football action across the pond.
		Born on 24 November, 1940, in Jersey City, it was not until 1969 that Tagliabue had his first real taste of the NFL.
		Tagliabue has brought along overall harmony, eradicated the league's glaring stadium problems and is forever intent on expanding its reach, which he has succeeded in doing over the last 14 years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/us_sport/2675771.stm (497 words)

	Kansas City Chiefs - DAWES: STARRING PAUL TAGLIABUE
		NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue was back on “the Hill” last week.
		By all appearances, his visit was a love fest compared to Major League Baseball’s spectacle of players, administrators and union reps reading from prepared statements or searching for translators (and I don’t necessarily mean the Latin players) to understand the questions being hurled at them.
		Tagliabue appeared the more steady hand when compared to his fellow commissioner, baseball’s Bud Selig.
	www.kcchiefs.com /news/2005/04/27/dawes_starring_paul_tagliabue (617 words)

	Paul Tagliabue — Infoplease.com
		Guiding might: NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue wields power wisely from the top of pro sports' most successful league.
		Tagliabue knocks ESPN's playmakers.(Breaking...)(NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue criticizes ESPN show 'Playmakers')(Brief Article)...
		Tags, you're IT: there are billions of reasons--a few unrelated to money--why NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue is the most powerful......
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109687.html (164 words)

	Official site of the Pittsburgh Steelers - Article
		PAUL TAGLIABUE is retiring at the end of July from the position that he has held since late 1989, the NFL announced today.
		Under Tagliabue's leadership, the NFL has grown from 28 to 32 teams, revised its divisional alignment and scheduling formula, operated under successive long-term labor agreements with the NFL Players Association, and maintained its preeminent position in sports television.
		In addition, the NFL under Tagliabue has been the new media leader in sports, creating the first leaguewide Internet network for fans and first satellite television subScription service, and launching the NFL Network on cable and satellite television.
	news.steelers.com /article/63266 (602 words)

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