Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.  ~Heywood Hale Brown

Most football players are temperamental.  That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.  ~Doug Plank

Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.  ~Tim Green

Pro football is like nuclear warfare.  There are no winners, only survivors.  ~Frank Gifford

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare.  They are consumed in twelve minutes.  Half-times take twelve minutes.  This is not coincidence.  ~Erma Bombeck

Football is not a contact sport.  It's a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.  ~Duffy Daugherty

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball.  He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest.  The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.  ~George Raveling