Forming the Conferences | 'The Timeline: The Merger' | NFL Network

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle configures the conferences in the 1960s, and then he and his successor Paul Tagliabue reach a pact with NFLPA director Gene Upshaw concerning free agency in the 1980s.

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