American Football
- Super Bowl XXXVI – New England Patriots win 20-17 over the St. Louis Rams
- ArenaBowl XVI – San Jose SaberCats win 52-14 over the Arizona Rattlers
- NCAA Football Championship – University of Miami win 37-14 over the University of Nebraska
- The Houston Texans become the NFL's 32nd active franchise.
Read more about this topic: 2002 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)