BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…for Florida its cold…for the rest of you it’s colder—and for several its snow at record levels for any time–not just for November anymore.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
and something to keep you warm
ITS AMAZING HOW THE ABSENCE OF CLOTHES IS SO WARMING….DROOLLLLLLL
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
today we’re doing collectible day:
I recently saw a doorstep cast iron football player (a door stop) that sold for $11,400 at auction (Morphy Auctions July 2014–pre-sale estimate had been $3,000 – $5,000)
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun
Led me to wonder what REAL football collectibles might be out there:
$99.95
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in Britain in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or run over a line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_football
$145.00
If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
The man most responsible for the transition from this rugby-like game to the sport of football we know today was Walter Camp, known as the “Father of American Football.” As a Yale undergraduate and medical student from 1876 to 1881, he played halfback and served as team captain, equivalent to head coach at the time. Even more importantly, he was the guiding force on the rules board of the newly formed Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA)….It did away with the opening “scrummage” or “scrum” and introduced the requirement that a team give up the ball after failing to move down the field a specified yardage in a certain number of “downs.” …other innovations Camp introduced were the 11-man team, the quarterback position, the line of scrimmage, offensive signal-calling and the scoring scale used in football today. …Camp coached the Yale team to a 67-2 record from 1888 to 1892—all while working as an executive at a watch-manufacturing firm. http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-football
$279.00
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
The date was November 12, 1892, a day that would forever be etched in sports history, although no one involved that day could possibly have recognized the importance of the occasion. It was the day that the Allegheny Athletic Association football team defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The game in itself was not a momentous event. But one of the circumstances of the game did make it a never-to-be-forgotten moment in sports history – one of the AAA players,
William (Pudge) Heffelfinger, was openly paid $500 to play the game. Thus pro football made its debut more than 100 years ago in comparatively obscure surroundings that could not possibly have provided the slightest clue to the world-wide popularity the sport would be destined to enjoy, particularly in the waning decades of pro football’s first century.
http://www.profootballhof.com/history/general/birth.aspx#sthash.0AwkUfsX.dpuf Steve Young Signed San Francisco 49ers Vintage Reebok White Jersey-
$311.08
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
When 1920 arrived, there more than 10 professional teams across the United States. Organizers from the teams decided to meet in Canton, Ohio to form the
American Professional Football Association(APFA) which later became the National Football League(NFL). The NFL further changed the rules as football began to solidify as an all-American past time.
http://abidjan.usembassy.gov/history_of_football.html
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
In 1930 Dayton, the last of the NFL’s original franchises, was purchased by William B. Dwyer and John C. Depler, moved to Brooklyn, and renamed the Dodgers. The Giants defeated a team of former Notre Dame players coached by Knute Rockne 22-0 before 55,000 at the Polo Grounds, December 14. The proceeds went to the New York Unemployment Fund to help those suffering because of the Great Depression, and the easy victory helped give the NFL credibility with the press and the public.
$750.00
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.
Bo Jackson
Gerald R. Ford received offers from two professional football teams, the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. In college, young “Jerry” played for the University of Michigan football team. In his first year he won the Meyer Morton Most Promising Freshman trophy and would go on to receive other honors, including Most Valuable Player in his senior year.
http://blogs.archives.gov/prologue/?p=13148
U Of Ill 1928 Football Poster
$1,440.00
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Elbert Hubbard
