Paul Tagliabue Teams Quotations

We want teams to get additional money to re-sign players, rather than cutting them.

We're not looking at this as an either/or, ... There's the potential we would have teams in both places.

We want to really emphasize above all that sport is a small part of life, ... We want to use our visibility and the respect we have with the public and the respect our teams have to support the national recovery program. That's the big thing.

We want to really emphasize above all that sport is a small part of life. We want to use are visibility and the respect we have with the public and the respect our teams have to support the national recovery program. That's the big thing.

We appreciate the tremendous response of our fans and everything that our teams and players are doing to support the relief effort, ... We are going to stay at it because all of America is going to have to stay at it.

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.

That's going to be our focus. We started some conversation with the owners about what kind of structure, what kind of commitments it would take from all the teams to institutionalize that so the obligation of playing a game every now and then, a regular-season game, outside of the United States would become a part of the normal team participation in the National Football League.

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

Ever since we approved the move of the Raiders and the Rams, I've been saying that our goal is to get a team back to L.A., either through expansion or whatever, and we're not going to be moving any teams into small markets, ... We're going to be moving up in market size, not either down or flat. That's our goal. So that's been my mindset.

That's a really tough competitive environment to live with and the Rams have been one of those teams that have had repeat success under that system.

I don't think the negotiations are going very well. Positions are hardening when they shouldn't be. It is becoming an issue in terms of the financial resources some teams have and some teams don't.