Commissioner Paul Tagliabue promised the city of Cleveland that an NFL team would be located in Cleveland, either through relocation or expansion, " no later than 1999 ".

Paul Brown, the first head coach and namesake of the Browns, who won 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships as coach of the Browns, is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and is widely regarded as one of football's greatest coaches of all-time.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

Supporters of Jacksonville's bid included NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, President Neil Austrian, Vice President Roger Goodell, Bud Adams of the Houston Oilers, Rankin Smith of the Atlanta Falcons and Ken Hofmann of the Seattle Seahawks.

Professional football in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area ( the " Twin Cities ") began with the Minneapolis Marines / Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s – 30s.

Two WFL alumni made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Larry Csonka and Paul Warfield ( although both were already established stars in the NFL before joining the WFL.

* Paul Smith ( defensive end ) ( 1945 – 2000 ), former NFL defensive end

* Paul Smith ( fullback ) ( born 1978 ), current NFL fullback

* Paul Flatley, former NFL Rookie-of-the-Year ( Minnesota Vikings )

* Paul Dekker – NFL and CFL player

* Paul Ott Carruth, former NFL player

Distinguished Massillon alumni include former Ohio State University, Cleveland Browns, and Cincinnati Bengals coach Paul Brown, and former Ohio State University player and former NFL All-Pro linebacker Chris Spielman.

* Paul Warfield ( Former Ohio State and NFL Football Player, NFL Hall of Famer )

Despite the long-time backing of Bears founder George Halas, Steelers founder Art Rooney and, more recently, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL ’ s other owners, led, not surprisingly, by the Cardinals, still continue to vote it down ( 30-2 ).

Gus Sonnenberg, Paul Goebel, John Sack, and Bob Rapp were all awarded 1st Team all NFL by the Canton Daily News.

Boni Petcoff and Paul Goebel were both awarded 2nd Team All NFL by the Green Bay Press-Gazzette, with the latter being awarded 2nd Team All NFL by the Collyers Eye Mag as well.

* Paul Janus, NFL player

* Paul Gruber, Former NFL Player

*" Q & A with former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue "

New England threatened legal action against Parcells and the Jets, but NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue brokered a deal between the two sides, with New England releasing Parcells from his contract and the Jets giving New England a third and fourth round pick that year, a second round pick the next year and a first round draft choice the year after that.

Jamie's wife, Emily, is the daughter of former National Football League ( NFL ) Commissioner Paul Tagliabue ; the couple welcomed John D. Rockefeller VI on on August 29, 2007.

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue met with Benson and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco at the Saints ' first home game in Baton Rouge on October 30.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

The Bengals were founded in as a member of the American Football League ( AFL ) by former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown.

In 1967 an ownership group led by Paul Brown was granted a franchise in the American Football League.

* Boyles, Bob & Guido, Paul, 50 Years of College Football, 2007

* 1940 – Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League

* Paul Seal ( born 1952 ), a former American football tight end in the National Football League

Both of their starting running backs from the previous year, future Pro Football Hall of Famers Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor, had left the team.

The Dolphins lost three of their most productive players Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield to the startup World Football League.

* In Soho Square are Paul McCartney's office MPL Communications, and the former Football Association headquarters.

The first major tournament final to be decided by such a goal was the 1995 Auto Windscreens Shield Final where Birmingham beat Carlisle United 1-0 with a goal from Paul Tait, followed by the 1996 European Football Championship, won by Germany over the Czech Republic.

* Paul LaPolice, former head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

There is also a catholic school named Saint Peter and Paul ( k-8 ) The Trojans are the 2009, State of Illinois, Class 6A Football Champions and Class 4A Girls volleyball Champions, and they are also the 2010 and 2011 state runners up in class 4A Girls volleyball as well as the home of Class 3A State High Jump champion in Carly Loeffel.

* Paul Lowe, member of the American Football League All-Time Team

* Paul Krause, Pro Football Hall of Fame

* In 2005 Springfield High School won the Minnesota State High School League State 1A Football Title under Coach Paul Dunn.

* Paul Johnson: Football coach at Georgia Southern, Navy, and Georgia Tech.

* Norwalk is the birthplace of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown and American League Baseball's first president, Ban Johnson.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

After narrowly avoiding yet another relegation in 2003 – 04 and a poor start to the 2004 – 05 Football League One campaign, Turner was replaced by former Southampton manager Paul Sturrock.

For this broadcast, Sergeant won the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year, beating Paul Gascoigne who had been nominated for bursting into tears during the 1990 Football World Cup Semi-Final against West Germany.