1.   And the effect is widespread, with fans and even visiting football teams historically staying in hotels as far away from Pasadena as Woodland Hills and Santa Monica.

2.   And, finally, a football team whose well runs deep, deeper than normally associated with the logo.

3.   -- does have something to do with the head coach of the most visible and closely scrutinized football team on the planet.

4.   For the football team, at least.

5.   Joe Gardi calls his Hofstra University football team the Road Warriors, meaning, they will go just about anywhere for a game.

6.   Just exactly where is the law that says higher education needs a football team to, pardon the expression, kick off the academic year?

7.   Now comes a week of speculation about whether the Falcons can stop perhaps the best offensive football team ever.

8.   So it would seem all these Patriots have been contributing to offensively explosive football teams their entire lives.

9.   Some pro football teams search forever for that combination, that one coach who can turn their Gatorade into wine and finally align the franchise planets.

10.   The last time the Cal State Northridge football team traveled to Northern California, it contributed to one of the highest-scoring games in Division I history.