1.   And if the NHL goes on strike as threatened, it seems football will do even better.

2.   Around here, they believe football does something inside to help give a man his manhood.

3.   It is the one where pro football legends give acceptance speeches, walk away, and then let the plaques and busts do their speaking for them.

4.   NFL officials pointed out that the military meshes personnel from diverse backgrounds, much as pro football does.

5.   Nonetheless, the city is waiting with wicked anticipation for this weekend, when college football may do to the press and political corps what willful antipathy cannot.

6.   No duo in the country could do to the top pairs skating team of Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman what a football nearly did.

7.   So, for that matter, does college football.

8.   What football does at that level is prepare you for life.

9.   But even if democracy grinds to a halt, football does not.