1.   All teams seek balance, but the running game on both sides of the ball is where winning football starts.

2.   Cole unloaded a left to the body, and football started looking pretty good to Ron Merkerson and probably to his Dad, too.

3.   Football was starting.

4.   Pro football was just starting to grow.

5.   Real football starts a week from Sunday.

6.   Texas football started to slide.

7.   The football starts taking devilish bounces.

8.   The football had started with its tail in the Ohio State end zone.

9.   The Patriots have owned the NFC East this year, whipping Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington in the admittedly meaningless exhibition season and devastating Arizona when real football started.

10.   When does football start?