Rozelle married his first wife, an artist named Jane Coupe, in 1949.

Gillman approached then-NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1963 with the idea of having the champions of the AFL and the NFL play a single final game, but his idea was not implemented until the Super Bowl game was played in 1967.

During lunch with NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1967, Tiffany & Co. vice president Oscar Riedner made a sketch on a cocktail napkin of what would become the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

Two years later, Rozelle would build on this success as the NFL began a four-year experiment of playing on Monday night, scheduling one game in prime time on CBS during the 1966 and 1967 seasons, and two contests during each of the next two years.

Fearing that bidding wars over players would become the norm, greatly increasing labor costs, NFL owners, led by league Commissioner Pete Rozelle, obtained a merger with the AFL.

To honor the recent death of former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, who died on December 6, 1996, each player wore a special helmet decal with Rozelle's signature, " Pete ," printed across the NFL logo.

The team name was opposed by St. Petersburg businessmen on the grounds that it emphasized Tampa at the expense of other Bay Area cities, until NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle himself met with them to encourage their support.

Rozelle is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.

By 1957, Rozelle was offered the GM job with the Rams.

NFL sources credit Rozelle with bringing concepts such as gate and television profit-sharing, policies already in place in the rival American Football League, to the NFL.

However, Rozelle and then-White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had been classmates at the University of San Francisco years before, and Rozelle had consulted with him.

Rozelle is erroneously credited with forging the merger.

Rozelle is also erroneously credited with introducing the concept of shared television revenues to Professional Football.

Rozelle, again according to Monday Night Football commentator Howard Cosell, pushed the NFL into an internecine struggle with Al Davis concerning the movement of the Oakland Raiders franchise to Los Angeles.

The couple had one child, Anne, born in 1958: however, Jane's problems with alcohol meant that Rozelle ( along with his lifelong secretary, Thelma Elkjer ) was his daughter's primary caretaker, unheard of in that era.

It was not uncommon to see Anne at owner's meetings ( some joked that her love of Joe Namath was a reason behind the AFL-NFL merger ) or for Rozelle to take off early to help her with schoolwork or to take her out on the town.

However NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would not allow Parcells to break his contract with the Giants and he stayed in New York.

In 2012, Dawson was honored with the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award for his longtime contributions as a sports broadcaster.

On April 23, Rozelle announced that he would leave the decision up to Kosar, but permitted Minnesota to persuade Kosar to enter the regular draft with the condition that they could not negotiate a potential contract with him.

* On the western side of the peninsula, the wonderful art deco Iron Cove Bridge, which opened in 1955, is a gateway across the Parramatta River linking Rozelle with the suburb of Drummoyne.

File: Rozelle Bay NSW. JPG | Rozelle Bay with White Bay Power Station and the Glebe Island grain silos in the background

To seal the merger, Rozelle arrived in New Orleans within a week, and announced on November 1, 1966 that the NFL officially had awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise.

On January 27, 1991, at Super Bowl XXV, the league first awarded the Pete Rozelle Trophy to the Super Bowl MVP.

At Super Bowl XXV, the league first awarded the Pete Rozelle Trophy, named after the former NFL commissioner, to the Super Bowl MVP.

Bonds were passed for construction of the Superdome on November 8, 1966, seven days after commissioner Pete Rozelle awarded New Orleans the 25th professional football franchise.

Although it invalidated the Rozelle Rule and obtained improved benefits, the change did not achieve true free agency as compensation remained tied to draft picks that were awarded based on the salary of the departing free agent and teams still maintained a right of first refusal.

The extension was awarded to him by the Finance Committee as a reward for negotiation of the league television contract in 1982, even though Rozelle had five years remaining on his current contract.

This was also the first full season for Paul Tagliabue as the Commissioner, after taking over from Pete Rozelle midway through the previous season.

The ANZAC Bridge or Anzac Bridge ( both forms are used by the Roads and Traffic Authority ), replacing the earlier Glebe Island Bridge, is a large cable-stayed bridge spanning Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island ( part of the suburb of Rozelle ) in proximity to the central business district of Sydney, Australia.

* 444 travels from Balmain East Wharf ( Darling Street ), Rozelle, Leichhardt, Petersham, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury Station, Campsie Station

* 445 travels from Balmain East Wharf ( Darling Street ), Rozelle, Leichhardt, Lilyfield Light Rail Stop, Petersham, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury Station, Campsie Station

The suggested route led from Rozelle in inner-western Sydney ( at the site of the former Balmain Power Station ), crossing the Georges River at Tom Uglys Point, climbing the Gwawley Range on a steep gradient, then following the Port Hacking River towards Stanwell Park.

" When Simms's name was announced by Commissioner Pete Rozelle in front of the audience at the draft ( which was held in New York ), his selection was booed loudly by the Giants fans in attendance.

The name Rozelle and Rozelle Bay ( often shown as " Rozella Bay " on old maps ), originated from the parrots found in abundance at Rose Hill ( near Parramatta ) the first suburb of Sydney, established as a prime farming area for the new colony.

He is often deemed as wrestling ’ s equivalent of Pete Rozelle ( the forward-thinking commissioner who revolutionized the NFL ), and he was instrumental in establishing the National Wrestling Alliance, which became the industry ’ s top governing body, in 1948.

Of this 550 acre ( 2 km² ), known as Gilchrist Place was located on the peninsula which is now the suburbs of Balmain and Rozelle.

In 2003, the municipal boundary was again changed, to exclude the Annandale Foreshore ( Land between the Crescent and Rozelle Bay ), Glebe and Forest Lodge, which are now part of the City of Sydney.

On December 5, 1974, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced the official signing of the franchise agreement by Lloyd W. Nordstrom, representing the Nordstrom family as majority partners for the consortium.

Even before the 1974 strike, the NFLPA challenged the so-called " Rozelle Rule ", as a violation of federal antitrust laws in a lawsuit filed by president John Mackey and allied union leaders in 1971.

* 1926 – Pete Rozelle, American professional sports executive ( d. 1996 )

First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who also founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs, Senator Russell Long and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

In the days before the game, most sports writers were speculating over whether, if the Raiders won, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner Al Davis.

Rozelle felt that way, saying: " It has been traditional in sports for athletes to perform in times of great personal tragedy.

The 1970s saw Rozelle at the peak of his powers as a sports league commissioner.

In another example, another former Rozelle employee, Tex Schramm, was CBS's director of sports during the period when that network refused to give AFL scores.

Nelson's honors and awards include induction into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1979 ; the New York Mets Hall of Fame in ; the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1986 ; the Tuss McLaughry Service Award for sports broadcasting in 1988 ; the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 ; the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990 ; and many more.

Commissioner Pete Rozelle said about playing the games: " It has been traditional in sports for athletes to perform in times of great personal tragedy.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle said about playing the games: " It has been traditional in sports for athletes to perform in times of great personal tragedy.