71.   Big East football is at a crossroads this season.

72.   Big East football is weak.

73.   Boston University football may be dead in a couple of weeks, but there reportedly is a grass-roots campaign to get the sport back in some form.

74.   -- Professional football would be more popular if played without pads.

75.   A football is inanimate, and its purpose is to be kicked around.

76.   A game-used Super Bowl football would likely be worth thousands of dollars, perhaps even tens of thousands of dollars, Outwater said.

77.   A tentative step outside the fiercely insular Raiders family, just to see if all that modern, new-fangled football really is worth the bother.

78.   AAA football could be the stage for players with fringe academic pasts and potential crossover athletes from other sports who might possess some football potential.

79.   After all, ballroom dancing is a contact sport, football is a collision sport.

80.   Adversity was not a stranger, but football was.