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
I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.
The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans' team and Louisiana's team. Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana.
The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.
I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.
The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand.
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
to play in the state in which they're franchised.
We are currently looking at an ideal of putting out the Saints' schedule well in advance of the rest of the schedule in order to eliminate uncertainty and facilitate planning,
We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,
We want teams to get additional money to re-sign players, rather than cutting them.
Under normal legal ground rules, it would probably be the case that if the court decided the case on the merits and ruled in our favor, then they would not be entitled to be in the draft.
Under our league policies, owners are not supposed to be talking about re-locating their team during a season. We've got a specific set of guidelines on that. It's a policy that was negotiated with the U.S. conference of mayors, and my assumption is that every owner is complying with the policy.