What is Paul Tagliabue?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Paul Tagliabue | image = Paul Tagliabue crop.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Tagliabue in August 2002 | office = [[History of the NFL Commissioner|Commissioner]]<br />of the [[National Football League]] | term_start = November 5, 1989 | term_end = September 1, 2006 | predecessor = [[Pete Rozelle]] | successor = [[Roger Goodell]] |birth_name=Paul John Tagliabue | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|11|24}} | birth_place = [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], U.S. | residence = [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Georgetown University]]<br>[[New York University School of Law]] }} '''Paul John Tagliabue''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|æ|ɡ|l|i|ə|b|uː}}; born November 24, 1940) is the former [[History of the NFL Commissioner|Commissioner]] of the [[National Football League]]. He became commissioner in 1989 and retired in 2006. He was replaced by [[Roger Goodell]], who was elected to the position on August 8, 2006. Tagliabue had previously served as a [[lawyer]] for the NFL.<ref>{{cite news | last=Eskenazi | first=Gerald | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Super Bowl XXIV; Tagliabue Sweeps Into Action | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/28/sports/super-bowl-xxiv-tagliabue-sweeps-into-action.html?pagewanted=1 | date=January 28, 1990 | access-date=October 13, 2009}}</ref> Tagliabue served as Chairman of [[President and Directors of Georgetown College|Board of Directors of Georgetown University]] from 2008 to 2015. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tagliabue, Paul}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Lawyers from New Jersey]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey]] [[Category:National Football League commissioners]]