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Benefit tonight to help family searching for missing son
— Mar 20 2010 4:08 PM from TheDay.com
Suwanee sets ambitious vision for public artwork
— Mar 20 2010 3:29 PM from Atlanta Journal Constitution
Rules and safety fall to competition committee
— Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News
Guardians of the game: NFL's competition committee
— Mar 20 2010 4:04 AM from The Seattle Times
Readers Write 03/21
— Mar 20 2010 1:13 AM from Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Atlanta Falcons head coach Mike Smith looks on during Georgia Tech Pro Day held on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Monday, March 15, 2010.

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2010 photo, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stands on the field before the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints in Miami. Goodell has been given a new five-year contract running until March 2015. The NFL said Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, that owners voted to award the new contract when they met in December. Goodell's compensation will remain the same, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank said.

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"What public art does is the same thing that a pleasing streetscape or good architecture does — it makes where you are a better, more interesting and richer place to live"

David Hamilton Mar 20 2010 3:29 PM from Atlanta Journal Constitution

"It is extremely important, and an honor for me to be a part of the committee and the tradition of it and the people who came before me ... You have to have a passion to protect the integrity of the game."

Jeff Fisher Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News

"For overtime, it was the players who said they didn't want to change the format and they were quite persuasive ... They didn't want to increase chances of injury in overtime when they are fatigued. That was very valuable input."

Ray Anderson Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News

"There are some things that are consistent ... There are clubs who would like to see the overtime rule adjusted or modified each year and we look at that every year. They don't want a random act such as a coin toss determining the..."

Jeff Fisher Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News

"I was initially against it and part of a very loud minority"

Rich McKay Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News

"We are charged with the stewardship of the quality of the game and we certainly take that very seriously ... We try to make sure it's not just our ideas or the league's ideas, but that we use a wide spectrum of ideas, whether..."

Rich McKay Mar 20 2010 4:05 AM from Sporting News

"In the past, people have been quick to say that our system works very well and why would we change it"

Rich McKay Mar 19 2010 7:10 PM from Colts.com

"We proposed that a few years ago, but it did not prevail"

Rich McKay Mar 19 2010 7:10 PM from Colts.com

"When sudden death was put in in 1974, it clearly worked very well"

Rich McKay Mar 19 2010 7:10 PM from Colts.com

"Statistically, it's clear there has been a change ... There are advocates who will say that we're trying to put in a system that emphasizes more skill and more strategy in overtime as opposed to the randomness of the coin flip...."

Rich McKay Mar 19 2010 7:10 PM from Colts.com