31.   Pro football had become stagnant and boring, he said at the time he stepped down from the Monday Night Football booth.

32.   Rozelle took me aside, murmured of his concerns that pro football was becoming too big too quickly, too intrinsic to the national fabric.

33.   This is how strange college football has become.

34.   UCLA football has become an annual tease.

35.   When I was lying there, football became very unimportant.

36.   Football later became a focus for nationalism, with matches turning into jammborees for Croatians and Slovenians as they prepared to break away from Yugoslavia.

37.   He says football has become a convenient scapegoat for widespread corruption in China.

38.   English football is becoming the most exciting in Europe.

39.   Over the years, Italian football has become the best league in the world as clubs annually spend millions of dollars improving their playing squads.