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.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated, " The payments here are particularly troubling because they involved not just payments for ' performance ,' but also for injuring opposing players.

It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.

* Drain Commissioner: Roger Zilke

Other current government officials include: Sheriff, Stacy Nicholson ; Probate Judge, Anita Mullins ; Magistrate Judge, Roger Kincaid ; Clerk of Court, Glenda Sue Johnson ; Tax Commissioner, Melba Bennett ; Coroner, Jerry Hensley.

The township supervisor is Frank Shubert and the Road Commissioner is Roger Phillips.

* Roger Goodell, NFL Executive Vice-President and COO ( 2001 – 2006 ) then Commissioner ( 2006 – Present )

In his speech, he proposed to Commissioner Roger Goodell that from the 2008 class, all drafted rookies ( not regarding subsequent undrafted rookie free agents ) will have a tour of Pro Football Hall of Fame to better understand their football history.

Skinner is the father of Thomas V. Skinner, former head of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's national compliance program and director of the EPA's region 5, Steven Skinner, CEO of KemperSports Management, and Jane Skinner, a former news anchor on Fox News Channel's Happening Now, and wife of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Wills ' 97th stolen base had occurred after his team had played its 154th game ; as a result, Commissioner Ford Frick ruled that Wills ' 104-steal season and Cobb's 96-steal season of 1915 were separate records, just as he had the year before ( the American League had also increased its number of games played per team to 162 ) after Roger Maris had broken Babe Ruth's single season home run record.

Sir Roger Mynor was High Sheriff in 1514, Sergeant of the King's Cellar, an official of Duffield Frith under the Duchy of Lancaster and a Commissioner of Peace for the County of Derby.

In a November 16, 2007 column, Bill Simmons, " the Sports Guy ," compared NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to Pusser.

Commissioner Roger Goodell, who happened to be attending the game, fined him $ 250, 000.

In December 2007, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry wrote a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking for the league to settle their differences in time for the New England Patriots-New York Giants game on December 29 that would be broadcast on Saturday Night Football.

His son Roger Goodell is the Commissioner of the National Football League.

Johnson served on the NFL Commissioner search committee in which a list of 185 candidates to succeed Paul Tagliabue was narrowed down to the final choice of Roger Goodell.

He initially denied any involvement, but recanted and admitted everything in a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

During the offseason, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced he was suspending nine different free agents, one of which was Rhodes.

In addition to Sellers, the film features Sid Caesar as FBI agent Joe Capone, David Tomlinson as Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Roger Avery, Simon Williams as his bumbling nephew and Helen Mirren as Police Constable Helen Rage ( her performance is notable for her singing the Music Hall standard, " Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow ").

However, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has tried to distance the policy from being associated with the player, stating that Merriman tested clean on 19 of 20 random tests for performance-enhancing drugs since entering the league.

In 1542 Henry VIII ’ s Commissioner granted the site and precincts of this House of Friars, manor or preaching-house of the preaching Friars of Clane to Robert Eustace, Roger Roche and Ed.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell cited the league's new international strategy in the abandonment of international pre-season games as well as the closure of NFL Europe, instead focusing on playing regular season games in foreign countries.

* Roger McClay-Politician and Children's Commissioner

All of the players have appealed to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

On March 21, 2012, Commissioner Goodell announced that, as a result of the bounty scandal and the NFL's investigation, Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, Gregg Williams indefinitely, and Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular season games.

" Johnson said about the incidents, " First of all, I want to apologize to the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and the rest of the NFL, Commissioner Goodell, the Chiefs organization, Coach Todd Haley, his staff, and my teammates for the words I used yesterday.

Robinson was reinstated by Commissioner Goodell in October 2007, and he completed the 2007 season with 21 catches for 241 yards and one touchdown.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

Coach Wyche was notified that the Commissioner had ordered the " no-huddle " illegal for the game.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

Due to the rising competition, Commissioner. com, which had charged as much as $ 300, offered its commissioner services for free starting with football in 2000.

English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

Quentin Bryce's appointment was announced during her term as Governor of Queensland ; she had previously been the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

Siddeley, whose tax accounting in the 1930s had been at least questionable, was keen to improve his public image and gave over the running of the castle, complete with a charitable donation, to the Commissioner of Works.

Sir Henry Vane was for some time President of the Council, and, as Treasurer and Commissioner for the Navy, he had almost the exclusive direction of that branch of public service.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

Commissioner Bud Selig, who earlier had threatened to disband the team, observed that without the new stadium the Twins could not have committed to sign their star player, catcher Joe Mauer, to an unprecedented 8-year, $ 184 million contract extension.

Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible ( Numbers 23: 23 ); her father, U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, had championed Morse's invention and secured early funding for it.

Not only was the mid-season switch unusual, but Durocher had been accused of gambling in 1947 and subsequently suspended for the entire 1947 season by Baseball Commissioner Albert " Happy " Chandler.

Late that day, Police Commissioner J. M. Adkison said he had received an anonymous telephone call threatening Rowland's life.

In March 1936, in response to the German remilitarization of the Rhineland, King had the Canadian High Commissioner in London inform the British government that if Britain went to war with Germany over the Rhineland issue that Canada would remain neutral.

Between November 1858 and February 1859, Gladstone, on behalf of Lord Derby's government, was made Extraordinary Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands embarking via Vienna and Trieste on a twelve week mission to the southern Adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the British Protectorate of the Ionian islands.

In 1920, the weak National Commission, which had been created to manage relationships between the two leagues, was replaced with the much more powerful Commissioner of Baseball, who had the power to make decisions for all of professional baseball unilaterally.

While attracting Connell, Cooney received a call from Lou Hausman, who worked for the Commissioner of Education ; he suggested Jon Stone, also from Captain Kangaroo, a producer who had retired to Vermont, though no more than 35 at the time.

According to David Akerman, Ludo de Witte and Kris Hollington, the firing squads were commanded by a Belgian, Captain Julien Gat ; another Belgian, Police Commissioner Verscheure, had overall command of the execution site.

To ensure smooth travel of grain shipments, Transport Commissioner Liu Yan ( in office from 763 – 779 ) had special river barge ships designed and constructed to fit the depths of each section of the entire canal.

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

Starting at 2: 00 p. m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, as well as the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and Nigeria's lowered last.

He filed a lawsuit alleging that the Commissioner had prejudged the case and could not provide a fair hearing.

The new government had a governor and an executive council appointed by the President of the United States, a House of Representatives with 35 elected members, a judicial system with a Supreme Court and a United States District Court, and a non-voting Resident Commissioner in Congress.

John Collier, who was appointed Commissioner of what is now called the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had become convinced that federal Indian policies needed to be changed to correct injustices.