File PhotoIn this Sept. 7, 1973, file photo National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle appears before the House Communications Subcommittee on Capitol Hill In Washington. Most people weighing in on a sports blackout rule are urging the Federal...

As a matter of fact, in a memo to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle in July of 1966, Hunt wrote of the first AFL-NFL championship: “I have kiddingly called it ‘The Super Bowl,’ a name that obviously can be improved upon. Tom Brady drops back, looking for a...

In a Dec. 19, 1972, telephone call just days before that game, Nixon told Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst to relay this message to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle: "If you make the move, for these playoff games, we will block any — any —...

Besides NFL stars such as Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns, Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears, O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills and Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the banquet included NFL dignitaries such as commissioner Pete Rozelle,...

Rozelle told the committee the NFL might limit its television agreement with the networks to a single game each week, if Congress bans local blackouts of NFL games. On a previously unreported tape recording reviewed by The Associated Press, President...

On a previously unreported tape recording, now in the National Archives, Nixon told Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst to offer commissioner Pete Rozelle a deal: allow playoff games to be televised in the host city and the president would block...