31.   National Collegiate Athletic Association regulations forbid players and athletic department staff members from participating in betting pools and fantasy football leagues or from using parlay cards.

32.   NBC Sports, which is backing the new football league, says it will be real football.

33.   NFL officials say they might worry more about whether the plane stays in the air than whether the new pro football league will crash and burn.

34.   NBC could team with Turner Sports, with which it is planning a football league, but it is not considered a strong possibility.

35.   Now that NBC and Turner Sports have declared their intentions to form a new pro football league, all they must do is prove that America needs it.

36.   Or roll, as in down the drain, which many football leagues have done in the past.

37.   Our football league is holding its draft tomorrow, so we should have the benefit of the latest injury and holdout news.

38.   Rival football leagues were long ago crushed, leaving the increasingly wealthy NFL an unassailable monopoly.

39.   --Returning Doug Flutie to our pro football league.

40.   Simply putting an extreme spin on a sport does not guarantee success, as the struggling XFL football league has learned.