“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.” I CanEyeActionFunnyWonderHellFootballPlentyNflAfternoonPornographyAmerican FootballFunny American FootballWatching Football Book:The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.” I CanRememberCertainBitsSoundFiveFootballAmountLuckCreditManagersSoccerAfternoonIrelandChairmanKevinPintsGuinness Author:Steve Coppell
“He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.” Has BeensDifferentMightFootballAfternoonElsewhereRight TimeMight Have BeenRight PlaceCommentators Author:Tony Gubba
“The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.” YearsGamesTeamTelevisionFootballSevenSpendingNflGrandmotherSundayAfternoonUnclesMy GrandmotherSeven YearsHookedSpending TimeSunday AfternoonsRedskins Author:Michael Vick
“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.” PeopleIfsWellsDifferentFoundGamesSportsEnjoyHalfWatchesViolenceTeamFieldsFootballThousandQuietIntellectualEmptyBaseballBallsExcitingAppealsParksComparisonAfternoonAestheticStadiumsBounceTuesdayFootball GameSports TeamOne Sided Author:Bowie Kuhn
“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.” AmericaFootballCollegeHigherAffairAfternoonSaturdayCollege FootballSaturday AfternoonHigher Learning Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.” PlayRememberFilmUsedGirlActingFootballAfternoonSaturdayRainyStreisandSaturday AfternoonFunny Girl Author:Sean Harris
“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.” YearsTwoDoneSchoolLastsThreeActingStudyTeamFootballCollegeSpeechDegreesSummerHigh SchoolTheaterTrainWinterDeterminedClockThirtyThrownTwo YearsJailAfternoonFootball TeamWisconsin Author:Paul Newman
“After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.” PeopleWorldLittlesBookUniverseWaitingFootballWallLaysRadioAfternoonSoapBoundlessOutside WorldNavel Book:The Shadow Of The Wind Source: The Shadow Of The Wind