Commissioner using Super Bowl as leverage
By Len Pasquarelli, ESPN.com
Len Pasquarelli Archive
What do you get when you combine "The Godfather" with "Field of Dreams"?
Paul Tagliabue.
Paraphrasing only slightly, the NFL commissioner, like fictitious Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, keeps hearing a whispered mantra, Build it and we will come, rattling around in his cranium. When it comes to squeezing out financing for a new stadium project in his league, Tagliabue suddenly morphs into Vito Corleone, ready and willing to make an offer some allegedly cash-strapped metropolis simply can't refuse.
By Len Pasquarelli, ESPN.com
Len Pasquarelli Archive
What do you get when you combine "The Godfather" with "Field of Dreams"?
Paul Tagliabue.
Paraphrasing only slightly, the NFL commissioner, like fictitious Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, keeps hearing a whispered mantra, Build it and we will come, rattling around in his cranium. When it comes to squeezing out financing for a new stadium project in his league, Tagliabue suddenly morphs into Vito Corleone, ready and willing to make an offer some allegedly cash-strapped metropolis simply can't refuse.
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