208 Quotes by Paul Tagliabue

The sense I have is if we ever get around to considering expansion in the NFL, San Antonio would be on anyone's short list.

The spread of talent around the league, the ability of teams to become competitive relatively quickly, it's a great thing. This preserves all of that.

Teams are not franchised as free agents to run around the country and play wherever they want to play,

Sometimes it seems we're taking two steps forward and one step back.

Russ is a well-respected member of our league, and this promotion is an acknowledgment of his years of exceptional work in marketing for the Bills' organization and the NFL.

No sports league has ever had to deal with the issues that we're dealing with. . . . I've told our people to think outside the box,

a fresh look has to be taken at the lease arrangement.

After discussing this new package of games with many potential partners, we decided it would be best presented on our own, high-quality NFL Network, which has developed so rapidly that the time had come to add live regular season games to the programming. In the end, we wanted these games on our network, which is devoted 24/7 to the sport of football, and not on a multi-sport network.

The business model for the Saints needs to be changed. It needs to be expanded. I think a fresh look has to be taken at the (Louisiana Superdome) lease arrangements, the master agreement arrangements. From my perspective, they were flawed.