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Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue died Sunday at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was 84.

Tagliabue did his undergraduate years at Georgetown and went on to get a law degree from New York University, and then moved down to D.C. to practice law until joining the NFL in 1989.

WTOP spoke with Charley Casserly, the former general manager of Washington’s football team, who talked about what Tagliabue was really like.

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.