In retrospect, I certainly think it would have been much better from a public relations viewpoint not to have played the games, because I did respect President Kennedy a great deal.
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Pete Rozelle
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
United States · 1926–1996
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Public relations man who became NFL commissioner at 33 and held the post for twenty-nine years, negotiating the league's first national television contract and creating the Super Bowl.
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