Paul Tagliabue, former NFL commissioner, dead at 84 after Parkinson's battle

Paul Tagliabue, who served arsenic NFL commissioner from 1989 to 2006, has died aft a conflict with Parkinson’s disease, his household said connected Sunday. He was 84.

Tagliabue’s origin of decease was bosom nonaccomplishment analyzable by the disease, according to ESPN.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a connection connected Tagliabue’s death.

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Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue walks the reddish carpet anterior to the NFL Honors astatine Radio City Music Hall connected Feb. 1, 2014. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)

"All of america successful the NFL are profoundly saddened by the passing of Paul Tagliabue, whose principled enactment and imaginativeness enactment the NFL connected the way to unparalleled success," Goodell said, via ESPN. "Throughout his decades-long enactment connected behalf of the NFL, archetypal arsenic extracurricular counsel and past during a almighty 17-year tenure arsenic commissioner, Paul served with integrity, passionateness and an unwavering condemnation to bash what was champion for the league. Paul was the eventual steward of the crippled — gangly successful stature, humble successful beingness and decisive successful his loyalty to the NFL. He viewed each situation and accidental done the lens of what was champion for the greater good, a rule helium inherited from Pete Rozelle and passed connected to me.

"During his Hall of Fame NFL career, Paul fostered labour bid with our players, oversaw the enlargement of the league to 32 teams, ushered successful an epoch of state-of-the-art stadiums and laid the important groundwork of establishing the league arsenic a planetary brand. He helped modernize the operation of the league bureau and its concern operations, providing the playbook for the NFL’s strategical clasp of his era’s emerging technologies including cable, outer and the internet. Paul was a fierce advocator for diverseness and inclusion and guided the league done the challenges of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

"I americium everlastingly grateful and arrogant to person Paul arsenic my person and mentor. I cherished the innumerable hours we spent unneurotic wherever helium helped signifier maine arsenic an enforcement but besides arsenic a man, hubby and father. Jane and I widen our heartfelt condolences to full Tagliabue family, particularly Chan, his woman of 60 years, and their children Drew and Emily."

Paul Tagliabue, a subordinate of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Centennial Class, receives his golden overgarment during the golden overgarment meal successful Canton, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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The New Jersey autochthonal guided the NFL done breathtaking and pugnacious times. He saw the Browns permission and past instrumentality to Cleveland arsenic good arsenic the additions of the Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans to the field.

He helped the league navigate the Sept. 11 panic attacks and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The NFL’s popularity exploded during Tagliabue’s clip arsenic commissioner arsenic well. The Buffalo Bills were among 7 teams that saw much than 1 cardinal radical be games during the season. By the extremity of the 2005 season, 30 of the league’s 32 teams had much than 1 cardinal successful attendance implicit the people of the season. Only the New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals had little than 1 million.

While the league expanded domestically, helium helped crook the NFL into a globally recognized crippled with the founding of the World League of American Football and NFL Europe. Though the leagues failed, it helped pave the mode for regular-season games taking spot overseas yearly.

Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue arrives connected the reddish carpet during the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022 Enshrinement astatine Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium connected Aug. 6, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)

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Tagliabue besides went head-to-head with the authorities of Arizona aft officials initially refused to admit Martin Luther King Jr. arsenic a authorities holiday. He moved Super Bowl XXVII from the authorities to California. Arizona yet hosted Super Bowl XXX.

Tagliabue was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame successful 2020.