Paul Tagliabue
Paul Tagliabue
Paul John Tagliabueis the former Commissioner of the National Football League. He took the position in 1989 and was succeeded by Roger Goodell, who was elected to the position on August 8, 2006. Tagliabue's retirement took effect on September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL. Tagliabue served as Chairman of Board of Directors of Georgetown University from 2008 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth24 November 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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To me, it says some times people don't have good information, ... All we know is that we have one season under our belt and it was premature to make any decision.
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After discussing this new package of games with many potential partners, we decided it would be best presented on our own, high-quality NFL Network, which has developed so rapidly that the time had come to add live regular season games to the programming. In the end, we wanted these games on our network, which is devoted 24/7 to the sport of football, and not on a multi-sport network.
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Can we sit here and say once we get a second season under our belt we're going to blow up some balloons and say we've got some big new conclusion? I don't know. It may take two, three, four, five years, who knows? Until you see something different, you don't know what you're looking at. ... There's no urgency in terms of any immediate need to try and fix something that's not broken, and is the best in sports.
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Superdome officials are pointing to the Falcons-Saints game on September 24 as the first event in the building since Hurricane Katrina. We are pleased that this historic re-opening will feature the annual renewal of the traditional Falcons-Saints rivalry.
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Superdome officials are pointing to the Falcons-Saints game on Sept. 24 as the first event in the building since Hurricane Katrina. We are pleased that this historic reopening will feature the annual renewal of the traditional Falcons-Saints rivalry.