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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“The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)