American Football
- January 28 - Super Bowl XXIV - San Francisco 49ers won 55-10 over the Denver Broncos
- November 11 - Derrick Thomas has 7 sacks for Kansas City Chiefs against Seattle Seahawks.
- The Colorado Buffaloes are named the AP Poll champion.
- The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are named the UPI Poll
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“...Im not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but whats the difference? You cant take it with you. The toys get different, thats all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. Its all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)