1.   As far as football took him, Elway managed never to lose sight of his roots.

2.   Football has taken up a great deal of the slack and manufacturers actually put some thought into their planning this year.

3.   Footballs sometimes take the strangest, most fateful bounces.

4.   Football took him across the nation, but his heart stayed in his native Georgia, where he grew up on a farm in Americus.

5.   HC football has taken a beating in the Patriot League, and many alums are not wild about the overall deemphasis of big-time athletics.

6.   Otherwise pro football has taken this turn-back-the-clock mentality a little too far.

7.   Strahan does not let football take control of his life.

8.   The fact is, football takes a major blow in this move.

9.   This year, regardless of where football may yet take him, he has a far better idea of where he is headed.