61.   All that means college football season is near.

62.   All the hours of preparation leading to the first game of a football season can obscure some basic truths.

63.   All this suggests that this could be a bizarre college football season.

64.   But before I can embrace the new season, I have to bring closure to a pro football season that ended Sunday with an embarrassing, dull thud.

65.   But clearly, something is missing from this pro football season.

66.   But after the last football season, he impressed them in four United States Basketball League games and in NBA predraft camps.

67.   But he returned to New York every football season and retained his close friendship with Parcells, now head coach of the New England Patriots.

68.   But Mara would like to see the grass field installed permanently by next football season.

69.   But mostly, his anger was directed at Beverly, who, it seemed, was pregnant every football season.

70.   But the important differences are that a football season has fewer games and football generates far more money, so new coaches have less room for failure.