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- Apr. 03, 1989: Retiring:Pete Rozelle
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 03, 1989 The College Trap
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 63
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- <p> RETIRING. Pete Rozelle, 63, commissioner of the National
- Football League since 1960; in Palm Desert, Calif. "I want to
- get some fun out of the rest of my life," sighed Rozelle, former
- Los Angeles Rams general manager who piloted what was once a
- twelve-team football league with its offices in a bank in a
- Philadelphia suburb into an alliance with the TV networks to
- produce today's 28-team, billion-dollar behemoth. Rozelle
- admitted he had been worn down by the N.F.L.'s legal battles
- with the now defunct U.S.F.L. and by the players' strikes in
- 1982 and 1987.
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- </body></article>
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