Pete Rozelle Quotes
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.
Rozelle, Pete. Qtd. in Davis, Jeff. Rozelle: Czar of the NFL. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
An expose claimed that arch segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond had a sexual relationship with a Black woman and had a grown daughter as a result of that liaison. Congressman Wison, a redneck racist made this statement. Soon after, the daughter came out of the closet and the affair was out in the open. What is particularly interesting is that Wilson did not claim that the claim was a smear on the Senator’s morality, but he saw an accusation of fathering a mulatto child as a smear in INTEGRITY. This illustrates how pervasive the segregationist mentality extends to all facets of character.
Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was an American businessman and executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.