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Frank Ogden, the Canadian Futurist, said that if Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep in the year 500 AD and not woken up until now, he would have noticed that everything had changed except for two things…the church and schools. Personally, I’d add the urge for procreation and the pursuit of power but let’s put those aside. The church is the church. People generally need to believe that there is a    .. more …

The championship of the National Football League – it’s Super Bowl Day!

More than a hundred thousand spectators yelling and cheering in the stadium! The intensity of the competition vibrates over the television in every home! Excitement resonates everywhere! No one remains unaffected by this event!

The greatness of this game began in the 1860s when courageous players from Princeton and Rutgers played the first football game in New Jersey. The Rutgers’ players wore scarlet-colored scarves wrapped around their head like turbans. This was long before helmets were mandatory and the Princeton players evidently played bare-headed. The competition was fierce. It was intense.

The rivalrous competition between the schools was played out in two vicious games that resulted in football being banned for a time because it interfered with academic studies. This same accusation has plagued college football teams every since.

Some of the memorable heroes of this sport are still talked about years after they’ve passed on. On a dusty dirt field in Ohio in 1915 the infamous Jim Thorpe, a running back, played  against the most determined defensive end, Knute Rockne. They didn’t have a television camera on them, but their names went down in history. Rockne was a Norwegian immigrant who grew up in Chicago and went on to Notre Dame. He became the college’s most famous football coach. He died in a plane crash in 1931. Jim Thorpe, a twin, was an American Indian of the Sac and Fox Tribe in Oklahoma and was studying at a federal government vocational school for Indian students. Not just a football player, he went to the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and won gold medals in both the pentathlon and the decathlon.

When King Gustaf V of Sweden presented Thorpe with his two gold medals, he said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world!” Bruised members of other football teams playing against Thorpe agreed that he was the theoretical super player in flesh and blood.

The National Football League formed in 1920, and George Halas was one of the twelve founders. In 1921 his Decatur, Illinois, team moved to Chicago and was nicknamed the ‘Bears.’ Halas created his own fast-moving history as the owner, coach and captain of the team he helped make famous.

Upon  introduction to President Calvin Coolidge, along with team member Red Grange, as being with the Chicago Bears, the President replied, “How interesting. I’ve always enjoyed animal acts.” Football was not yet the favorite American sport.

Television both educated and influenced the public regarding football. Especially with the instant play-back features that modern electronics provides, football has captured the hearts of Americans. Now fans can see a unique play not only once, but from several angles, over and over again. They can study every move of their heroes.

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Preseason NFL 2010 Predictions – Hey Tom! Kiss My Sports Picks: It’s Brett Favre versus Alex Smith in today’s week 2 NFL picks matchup set to kickoff at 8:00PM in Candlestick Park as the Minnesota Vikings along with Brett Favre take on the San Francisco 49ers. The 2010 NFL predictions season started off with a social networking leak that Brett Favre would not return to the Minnesota Vikings to    .. more …

USF football coach Skip Holtz talks to the media Friday night following USF’s third and final scrimmage of fall camp. … SKIP HOLTZ …
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summer Questions of the Day finale wraps with a quiz on USC football history, both recent and dated. See which players have a proficient …
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of fall camp a mere week away, FlipsIt continues to keep the USC football team occupied (in addition to morning workouts, of course) with another …
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Like most teenagers, Alex Thorne from Cardiff enjoys spending time with his friends, computer games and outdoor sports like body-boarding but there’s one big difference – he’s already completed a maths degree at the age of 15. At just 12-years-old, when most people are in their first year at secondary school, Alex achieved an A in A-level Maths. He’s now getting ready to start his Masters at    .. more …