I quickly learned what many Sunday widows already realized —

I quickly learned what many Sunday widows already realized — that football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbal, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. – Arnold J. Mandell, “A Psychiatric Study of Professional Football,” 1974 [An inte

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The Super Bowl is a week-long talk show. – Ira Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 1979

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I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun. – Pete Gent, quoted by Ray Blount, Jr. in About Three Bricks Shy… And the Load F

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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? – Jim Bouton

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My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head… I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. – Jack Tatum, They Call Me Assassin, 1979

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