If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

A lot of the ice ... floated out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise