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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The Gulf Coast and our entire nation face extraordinary challenges. We will continue to do our part to contribute to the recovery and rebuilding process. The weekend of what should have been the Saints' first home game in New Orleans this year is an appropriate time for a special leaguewide effort to focus on the restoration of the Gulf Coast.
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Our fans in Mexico are knowledgeable and passionate and they are ready for this next step. They have supported the American Bowl games in record numbers, and NFL programming has been a part of television in Mexico for many decades.
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I do think that with only one game a year we need to be very realistic how frequently the game is going to be back in cities that have already had it. The point is, we can play Super Bowls all over America, but unless you are naive as to how the weather is in this country, it does still get cold in the winter. We have to be realistic. We're not going to play the game all over the country. We will concentrate on northern cities with domes and there will continue to be a heavy array of games in the southern climates.
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It's sort of inconsequential because we're dealing with a national disaster. In that context another home game is unimportant.
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They are beginning to understand the game is growing in interest. There will be players in Germany at very high levels. Then the sport will start rolling along. It will enrich what we do over here.
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It's inconsequential because we're dealing with a national disaster, ... In that context, another home game is unimportant.
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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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Every effort is going to be made to play as many games as we can in the Superdome, but it's too early to say.
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No decisions have been made. We want to know where the team's going to play its games as soon as we can.
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That's going to be our focus. We started some conversation with the owners about what kind of structure, what kind of commitments it would take from all the teams to institutionalize that so the obligation of playing a game every now and then, a regular-season game, outside of the United States would become a part of the normal team participation in the National Football League.
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I have a very high degree of confidence that the security for this game will be unprecedented, will be world-class and will be very, very effective,
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You're way ahead of me, ... I don't know anything about that or what we're going to do about all of that. I don't want to leave Louisiana, OK. Otherwise, we wouldn't be playing four games here.
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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.