American Football
- Super Bowl VIII – Miami Dolphins won 24–7 over the Minnesota Vikings
- Oklahoma Sooners – college football championship.
- World Bowl I – Birmingham Americans won 22–21 over Florida Blazers (at Birmingham, Alabama)
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)