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The commissioner said Pellman got the job "based on his experience in sports medicine . And recommendations from Jets ownership and management." The committee didn't publish its first research until October2003 six years after Tagliabue became Pellman's patient. Pellman would continue as one of the commissioner's personal doctors until '06..Starbucks, which wanted to