When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.
Since the Drive-Bys are involved, I'm sorry, folks, I just never, ever do I accept anything, I don't care what. If it's football, if it's the space program, if it's anything, I automatically do not believe it.
Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or too brutal or what have you. There's a segment of our adult population that's still children, still kids.
[NFL fans] wish they'd shut up and play football, and I think the vast majority of people, "Shut up and act! Shut up and sing! Shut up and star in your TV show! Just shut up and do what you do, but shut up!" I think they're wearing out their welcome.
Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.
Football is potential post-career suicide.
Football is brutality. Football is career-ending, life-threatening injury just by stepping on the field.
Football's not a bastion for toughness. It's not a bastion of anything uplifting or good for men or anybody else.
In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.
Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.
You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
I want to do what I like and that's play football.
Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.
The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.
Last night we were the best team on the day.
Every football coach worries about every football game.
That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other.
I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.
That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.
Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'
You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.
Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.
I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.
