Rozelle’s Talents Not Restricted to Football

I went to my files and pulled out my copy of the 1937 Third Annual Compton Invitational Track and Field Meet and there it was, just as I remembered. . . .

Pole Vault Assistant--Pete Rozelle. When a vaulter knocked the bar off, Rozelle put it back up.

VINCE REEL

Claremont

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As a former sportswriter with the Seattle Times, I am familiar with the selective memory difficulty that plagues the profession. I refer to your writers who have canonized Pete Rozelle as the patron saint of the NFL.

Is this the same Pete Rozelle who did everything in his power to deny recognition to that “other” league, the AFL? And was dragged kicking and screaming into an interleague playoff by that “other” commissioner only when it was impossible to prevent it?

JOHN BLEWETT

Santa Paula