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Search for new commissioner could take time

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Monday, March 27, 2006

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- In the spring of 1989, as a group of NFL officials huddled at a hotel near O'Hare Airport in Chicago, poised to convene a meeting that was to pave the way for the election of a new commissioner, the combination of stormy weather and an air traffic controllers' problem conspired to delay the arrival of several key owners. As some owners cooled their heels for several hours, waiting for fraternity brothers to escape the holding pattern in the gray skies above them, sent ...

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