31.   Friends told him to shave his mustache because it was too weird, he loved American football, and modeled his stiff-arm salute after a cheerleader move he liked.

32.   Germans took to American football fairly readily, partly because the American military presence here since World War II had given them some familiarity with it.

33.   He also had a fondness for American football marches.

34.   He analyzed both the spectators and the teams in four home games of the New Yorker Hurricanes, a team in Kiel that plays American football.

35.   Her own American football?

36.   If this were American football, he would be a fullback brought in to punch the ball across the goal line.

37.   Imagine what would happen in American football or Canadian hockey or Italian soccer if the sentiments of the home crowd could overturn a call.

38.   In exchange for Winnie and friends, the Mail offered to return American football, rap music and touring American singer Barry Manilow.

39.   In recent years, coming at American football the long way, through Italian soccer, I have begun to understand the weeklong anticipation of the big game.

40.   In the eccentric little sport of American football, a Super Bowl is played once every year, but it somehow seems more frequent than that.