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	Pete Rozelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (March 1 1926–December 6 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office.
		Rozelle began his career at the University of San Francisco, working as a student publicist for the school's football team.
		Rozelle rued his decision to have the NFL play, and frequently stated publicly that it had been his worst mistake.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pete_Rozelle (771 words)

	Pete Rozelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rozelle is credited with making the NFL into arguably the most successful sports league in the world.
		However, he didn't cite Rozelle's decision, he cited that the events were so deadly and security concerns.) Rozelles's "aptitude for conciliation" with the league's owners, however, led to his receiving Sports Illustrated magazine's 1963 "Sportsman of the Year" award.
		Under Rozelle the NFL thrived and had become an American icon, despite two players' strikes and two different upstart leagues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pete_Rozelle (720 words)

	Pete Rozelle Introduction, 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since Rozelle's appointment as league commissioner, pro football has replaced baseball as our national pastime, and such is the sport's popularity that in many N.F.L. cities, the only way to acquire a season ticket is to have one willed to you.
		But as Rozelle himself is quick to point out, the sport had reached a threshold of accelerated growth and would undoubtedly have prospered with or without his leadership.
		Rozelle smoothed things out as expeditiously as advertised, but his over-all performance as L.A.'s general manager was hardly memorable.
	ww3.sportsline.com /b/member/playboy/7310.html (880 words)

	NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle Dies at 70
		Pete Rozelle, the father of the Super Bowl who put the NFL on TV just about everywhere and transformed the way Americans spend Sunday afternoons, died Friday of brain cancer.
		Rozelle, then the general manager of the Rams, was elected the league's sixth commissioner on Jan. 26, 1960, at the age of 33.
		Rozelle also steered the league through player strikes in 1974, 1982 and 1987, although he was criticized during the latter two for staying on the sidelines and leaving negotiations to the NFL Management Council.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/120796/nfl.htm (1159 words)

	PETE ROZELLE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (March_1 1926–December_6 1996) was the commissioner of the National_Football_League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office.
		Rozelle began his career at the University_of_San_Francisco, working as a student publicist for the school's football team.
		After Bert_Bell's death in 1959, Rozelle was the surprise choice for his replacement as NFL commissioner.
	www.palfacts.com /Pete_Rozelle (670 words)

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		Rozelle turned to me and said he would like me to attend the press conferences before and after the next Super Bowl game, which was being held in New Orleans.
		Rozelle was the first to acknowledge that there was a drug problem in the NFL and he was determined to do something about it.
		Rozelle was so pleased that he requested enough copies of the THE NARC OFFICER to send to each NFL owner, coach and security officer.
	www.ineoa.org /rozelle.htm (819 words)

	NewStandard: 12/9/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was talking about how much it dismayed him when one of his league's teams chose to move against the civic and league will, about how he foresaw more of the same in the future given the league's legal inability to force teams to stay in their original cities.
		During his three decades as commissioner, Rozelle, who was a compromise choice on the 23rd ballot back in 1960, oversaw the growth of the league from 12 to 28 teams.
		Rozelle was like any other commissioner, voted in by the owners and paid by the owners.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-96/12-09-96/c01sp063.htm (739 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Rozelle was the 33-year-old general manager of the Los Angeles Rams when he left for the annual NFL meetings in January, 1960.
		After a couple of hours, Pete was invited back to the meeting to hear the news that he was the NFL’s new leader.
		Rozelle's accomplishments are legendary, and the NFL’s many challenges during his tenure are well documented.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=185 (367 words)

	Sporting News, The: The power of persuasion - Pete Rozelle
		This is how successful Rozelle's vision has become: In 1998, three television networks paid $18 billion for games that had not even been scheduled, with no idea how good the teams or the stars would be in the eight years covered by the contracts.
		But Rozelle's obsession about competitive balance, where there would not be obvious haves and have-nots, where every club could envision playoffs and championships, has produced, year after year, a dependable audience delivery system that pleases television and keeps stadiums full in virtually every league city.
		When the ornery king of the Raiders took on Rozelle and the league in a series of lawsuits in the 1980s, he was successfully portrayed as an enemy of the nation by the NFL P.R. machine and friendly national media.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_51_223/ai_58411313 (1262 words)

	ESPN Classic - Rozelle sold entire nation on his sport
		When Pete came up, the game was run by a lot of crusty old football types, secretive, suspicious, in some cases superannuated.
		Pete also got Congress -- and the White House -- to overlook the fact that this violated several provisions of the antitrust act while some other industries looked on in envy.
		The first time I met Pete Rozelle, he was handling the tour of the great miler John Landy for an Aussie airline.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/murray_on_rozelle_07/04.html (1151 words)

	TIME 100: Pete Rozelle
		When most people think of Pete Rozelle, if they think at all of Pete Rozelle, they probably recall a genial fellow with a balding pate and the ready smile of a car salesman who popped up at the end of the Super Bowl.
		Until his death in 1996, Rozelle was dwarfed in every way by owners, coaches and players, and it was impossible for the viewer innocent of the inner workings of pro sports to view him as much more than a functionary.
		Rozelle recognized that a sporting event was more than a game — it was a valuable piece of programming.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/profile/rozelle.html (511 words)

	ESPN Classic - Rozelle made NFL what it is today
		Pete Rozelle's lasting contribution to pro football was creating the Super Bowl and transforming it into the biggest event in American sports.
		Alvin Ray Rozelle was born March 1, 1926 in South Gate, Calif. The older of two boys, his father had run a grocery store, but it failed during the Depression and he worked the rest of his days for Alcoa.
		One of Rozelle's biggest legal victories came in 1986, when the U.S. Football League brought a $1.6 billion antitrust suit against the NFL and was awarded only $3, effectively sealing its demise.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/rozelle_pete.html (1372 words)

	Cincinnati Bengals - Pete Rozelle - December 8, 1996
		Brown, the Bengals' president and general manager, lavished praise and affection upon Rozelle, the former NFL commissioner who died Friday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Rozelle's ability to raise the league to the pinnacle of professional sports left an enduring impression on Brown, whose father, Paul, launched the Cincinnati franchise.
		Brown indicated that Rozelle worked extensively behind the scenes to help his father secure the Bengals: ''There were competitors at that time for an NFL franchise besides Cincinnati.
		Years earlier, Paul Brown was instrumental in Rozelle's surprise ascent from general manager of the Los Angeles Rams to NFL commissioner as a compromise candidate on the 23rd ballot.
	bengals.enquirer.com /rozelle.html (589 words)

	The Enquirer - Tim Sullivan - December 8, 1996
		Pete Rozelle ran the NFL for nearly 30 years, and his few fumbles are of little consequence beside his forward progress.
		It was Rozelle's great good fortune to rise to power in time to preside over the marriage of football and television, but it was his considerable skill that enabled the union to work.
		Rozelle gained that confidence because his ideas inevitably made money, and he wielded his influence so artfully that owners often mistook his ideas for their own.
	www.enquirer.com /columns/sullivan/120896_ts.html (682 words)

	Pete Rozelle (1960-1989
		Alvin Ray Rozelle was born March 1, 1926 in South Gate, Calif. The older of 2 boys, his father had run a grocery store, but it failed during the Depression and he worked the rest of his days for Alcoa.
		This led Rozelle into talks for a merger, the agreement gave the leagues a common draft, made both leagues respect the others contracts that controlled what owners feared would become sky rocketing salaries.
		Rozelle pushed the Monday night idea hard on the networks, and ABC - last in the Nielsen ratings - took the gamble and watched it succeed beyond all expectations.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/comish/rozelle.html (1238 words)

	The Sporting News: NFL - Most Significant Developments this Century: No. 4, Pete Rozelle becomes NFL commissioner
		Elected NFL commissioner in 1960, Pete Rozelle served until his reluctantly accepted retirement in 1989.
		Rozelle, in contrast, came into the NFL when the league was still mostly a ragtag collection of motley entrepreneurs with no common aspiration and no real national following.
		At last Rozelle was summoned, and the owners told him he had been elected.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/moments/155198.html (720 words)

	Sporting News, The: Touch football - former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle - Column - Obituary
		Rozelle had preserved the old man's dignity by never telling him he was out of order.
		And here was Rozelle, in his 30s, telling legends such as Halas and the Maras and Marshall that to grow they must give up their individual TV deals and agree to divide equally revenue from a yet-to-be-negotiated nafional TV contract.
		Rozelle's passing last week of brain cancer at age 70 cuts off yet another link between this quaint past and the present glory of the NFL.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n51_v220/ai_18970690 (948 words)

	Pete Rozelle Body, 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROZELLE: I can't say that I know Joe, but we spent a number of hours together just before he came out of retirement--which wasn't a sham, incidentally--and I thoroughly enjoyed him as a person.
		ROZELLE: I would hope they'll remember that I made a strong and, for the most part, successful effort to balance--frequently with compromise, but balancing as best I could--the interests of the sport's club owners, players and, most importantly, its fans.
		ROZELLE: Due to the types of things I've been most identified with, I think I've come across as a rather cold, hard person, and I have to attribute that to feeling forced to keep a somewhat aloof exterior--except with the small number of very, very close friends that I relax with.
	ww3.sportsline.com /b/member/playboy/7310_b14.html (595 words)

	Tom Brady, a guy Pete Rozelle would have liked - 2/1/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		HOUSTON - Pete Rozelle was the visionary who created this chunk of Americana known the world over as the Super Bowl.
		Pete never envisioned that a seven-year-old franchise could be become standard bearers of the original NFL in a Super Bowl.
		Pete Rozelle, in all his musings on the future of his sport, never realized that one day a player who scored a touchdown would reach into his socks and pull out a pen and autograph the football.
	www.detnews.com /2004/lions/0402/01/lions-51391.htm (913 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pete Rozelle (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Pete Rozelle (Alvin Rozelle), 1926–96, American football executive, b.
		South Gate, Calif. As commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) (1960–89), he guided the league through expansion from 12 to 28 teams, establishing a reputation for tough, even-handed control.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Pete Rozelle
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rozelle.html (185 words)

	Rozelle, Pete on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tiffany and Co. Crafts the Vince Lombardi and the Pete Rozelle Trophies for Super Bowl XXXI
		Tiffany and Co. Crafts the Vince Lombardi and the Pete Rozelle Trophies for Super Bowl XXXIII.
		Tiffany and Co. Crafts the Vince Lombardi and the Pete Rozelle Trophies for Super Bowl XXXV.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/rozelle.asp (237 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Book Review 01 11 05
		When the National Football League, guided by its young commissioner, Pete Rozelle, signed a landmark $4.7 million TV contract with CBS in 1962, it put the league's broadcast rights in one collective basket while making each franchise an equal partner in broadcast revenue.
		Rozelle, who died in 1996, receives, and deserves, much of the credit for transforming the NFL into a cultural powerhouse.
		Rozelle leaves office after a ravaging final decade punctuated by two player strikes and the beginnings of a mass franchise exodus.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2005-01-11/book_review2.html (2112 words)

	Custom written biography on Pete Rozelle \| Essays on Pete Rozelle
		Pete Rozelle (1926-1996) served as commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 until 1989, leading the League to unprecedented profitability and popularity.Born in the small California town of South Gate, outside of Los Angeles, on March 1, 1926, Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle took an early interest in sports.
		Rozelle's influence and effectiveness were officially recognized when he was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1985.
		In 1989, with more than two years remaining on his contract, Rozelle decided that he had had enough and resigned as commissioner of the NFL.Rozelle served briefly on the board of directors of NTN Communications, Inc. of Carlsbad, California, in 1994, before retiring due to his failing health.
	www.swiftpapers.com /biographies/Pete_Rozelle-33000.html (285 words)

	TIME 100: Pete Rozelle
		Rozelle's first trick, one that Rockefeller would have admired, was to put an end to the unprofitable competition.
		Rozelle's next big move was to weld the owners of the new, expanded league into a cartel.
		In his eulogy of Rozelle in January 1997, Arledge said that a president of a sports division negotiating with Pete Rozelle and the NFL had "about as much clout as the Dalai Lama has dealing with the Chinese army." What he failed to mention was that Rozelle had created the army.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/profile/rozelle2.html (420 words)

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		Whatever the perspective, it is clear that Alvin "Pete" Rozelle is among the most significant figures in the history of Sport in America and the world in the Twentieth Century.
		It was clear by 1960 that television was the key to the future, and Rozelle signed a contract between the NFL and CBS in which the league pooled the TV package and shared the revenues.
		It was Rozelle who used the two week span before the game to manipulate the press, lobby the politicians, and stroke the fat cats of American business.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~arete/archives/threads/crepeau/121396.html (844 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > NFL > Jerry Magee -- Rozelle's pledge to Congress gets swept under rug
		Should the NFL keep a pledge Pete Rozelle made to Congress in 1966 there would be no question of the Chargers leaving San Diego.
		When the late commissioner was seeking to win the antitrust exemption necessary for the NFL-AFL merger to have the blessing of legality, he assured Congress that should the exemption be granted (which it was), none of the 24 franchises involved in the merger would be moved.
		Pete Carroll is known to have urged at least five NFL general managers to contact sophomore Mike Williams, not to attempt to persuade him to remain at USC but to detail to him what his circumstances would be should he make himself available for the draft.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/magee/20040222-9999_1s22nflcol.html (1045 words)

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