21.   They checked over the prospects, some of the best leaving college football this year.

22.   Thirty-eight years later, the football Rams have left Los Angeles for St. Louis.

23.   Osborne left football to spend more time with his family and the youth-mentoring program he started by matching Husker players with at-risk youth.

24.   Had they done so, it would have left American football as the only one of the four major team sports operating.

25.   Despite the first round exit, Weah said he was leaving international football in an upbeat mood.

26.   United manager Alex Ferguson last week expressed fears that if the appeal failed, Cantona would consider leaving English football.

27.   Simpson, who became a television and film personality after leaving football, is black, and his wife is white.