Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pete Rozelle, the father of the Super Bowl who put the NFL on TV just about everywhere and transformed the way Americans spend Sunday afternoons, died yesterday of brain cancer...
...more responsible for the success of the National Football League and public passion of the NFL game than Pete Rozelle," said commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who succeeded Rozelle...
...Though he would credit others, Pete was the driving force in changing the face of professional sports in this country. His vision, integrity and commitment made him the ideal leader during a period of tremendous growth for the NFL," Tagliabue said...
Said former Dallas Cowboys president Tex Schramm: "Now that I look back, Pete had always seemed to have destiny on his shoulder...
...expecting to be one of its big summer movies for 1996, writer-director Alan Shapiro was approached by the studio's merchandising department. The executives had a problem: there were only three characters in the film suitable for licensing to stuffed-animal makers--Flipper, Scar the Hammerhead Shark and Pete the Pelican. Toy manufacturers were demanding a fourth to round out the Flipper line. "But the movie's been shot," Shapiro argued. "It's too late to add a fourth character." Nevertheless, Shapiro and the executives screened a rough cut of the film and noticed a montage sequence during which...