-- By Frank Reich
As I warmed up my car on a cold Buffalo morning, I readied myself for a drive to Rich Stadium where I was to start my first NFL playoff game. This particular day, January 3, 1993, we were playing the Houston Oilers in an AFC wildcard game.
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You Can’t Be Hatin’ on This! Dear Friends… I heard the news Monday morning that Tim Tebow had taken someone special with him to the The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards ceremony held Thursday night in Orlando, Florida. Didn’t think too much about it. As a matter of fact, …
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Inspiring Sports Success Story is also a special Love Story
High school star suffers stroke, but Clemson honors commitment
National Signing Day came and went the first of this month, and once more college football recruits were inspected and graded like eggs before crating.
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— Author unknown Carl Joseph was born without a left leg. Raised in poverty in a single mom household, he grew up in north Flordia on a tobacco farm, the fourth of 10 children. Faced with obstacles most of us can only imagine, Carl didn’t let himself be discouraged. Sports …
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By BRUCE LOWITT
To much of America, and certainly to the NFL, the American Football League was somewhere between a minor league and a joke.
Until Super Bowl III.
Until quarterback Joe Namath made good on a preposterous guarantee -- that his New York Jets would beat the seemingly unbeatable Baltimore Colts. They did, 16-7.
This AFL was the fourth league to challenge the NFL. The first three died within a year or two of their birth. But this one, which began playing in 1960, had network television money behind it.
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-- Author Unknown
It was with great pride and joy to watch the Colts, led by Head Coach - Tony Dungy, win their trip to the Super Bowl. While, not a big football follower, there was good reason and insight to support and cheer with enthusiasm for Tony Dungy's Colts team?
"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." -- Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." -- Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
"After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that." -- Bobby Bowden / Florida State
-- By Bobby DoddÔÇ¿
Football is one of our great American games. It is the duty and responsibility of each of us to see that it is kept in its proper perspective, and that it is protected. We should see that it is used to attain the objectives that mean so much to our way of life.
We feel that the spectator can be most influential and instrumental in helping to achieve these objectives, if he will develop the right attitudes. May we suggest a few?
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A TRUE Story -- Author unknown
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Inspire 21 Inspiring Words for the 21st Century