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Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

- Pete Rozelle
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I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

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Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.

Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.