Paul Spinelli started photographing NFL football games in 1981. From 1983-85, He also photographed NCAA and USFL (United States Football League) football games. In 1986, Paul became the NFL lead photographer covering the New York Jets and many NFL Office events in New York City.In 1987, Paul was hired by Dave Boss as the NFL Director of Photographic Services. During my 16 year career as an NFL executive, He designed and secured funding for NFLphotos.com (the NFL's first digital photo archive and international licensing platform) and increased annual photo sales revenues by more than 500 percent. Paul created the NFL Photo Studio, managed the NFL Photo Sales department, and was responsible for the NFL Photo Library and its collection of more than three million football photos. Paul selected the photographers and supervised the NFL's Super Bowl and Pro Bowl photo crews.In 2003, when the NFL began outsourcing NFL Photos and the NFL Publishing and Photographic Services Departments, He launched SpinPhotos, Inc., a Southern California based photo and consulting business specializing in sports and sports archives. Paul worked as a sports and legal consultant for multiple companies including the NFL, Getty Images, Tennis Magazine, and Professional Bull Riders while continuing to photograph and license photos from NFL, NCAA, and Major League Baseball games.His professional football and baseball photographs have been published by  hundreds of sports magazines, books, newspapers, game programs, and worldwide media. These publications include Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Sporting News, NFL Super Bowl Programs, and MLB World Series Programs. My photos have been used commercially by NFL and MLB consumer product licensees such as Panini America, EA Sports, The Topps Company and numerous corporate sponsors such as FedEx, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Nike, DirecTV, Verizon, and Sprint.During his career, Paul photographed more than 1,300 NFL, NCAA, and MLB games, 33 NFL Super Bowls, 30 Pro Bowls, and hundreds of NFL playoff games. His NFL archive contains more than 300,000 photographs dating back to 1981. Most of these photographs have been digitized and uploaded to PhotoShelter and http://www.spinphotos.com  as an online portfolio and historical archive currently licensed commercially and editorially via AP Images. Prior to his NFL career, Paul was a freelance sports photographer based in New York City working on photo assignments for a wide variety of corporate clients including American Airlines, Geo Magazine, Jordache, the New York Road Runners Club, Nike, Perrier, the NFL, and MLB.