81.   As a youngster, he would put on pads, hop on his bicycle, and recruit neighborhood kids for a football game.

82.   As Tennessee prepares for the biggest pro football game in its history, the state feels torn loyalties.

83.   As Texas governor, Bush has sided with the Santa Fe school district south of Houston in its challenge of federal court decisions barring school prayers at football games.

84.   As the candidates attacked each other, the partisan crowd reacted almost as if they were at a football game.

85.   At a football game last September, I sat in a stadium watching two teams representing schools both presidented by two former linemen.

86.   At a football game in Locust Grove, Watts remembered his family sitting with a recruiter who had come to watch him as quarterback.

87.   At Iowa and Virginia, the campus police do not enforce drinking rules at tailgate parties before football games, but are aggressive about limiting alcohol in the stadiums.

88.   At halftime on Sunday at the Tennessee Titans football game in Adelphia Coliseum, the voice of the announcer boomed over the public address system.

89.   At Colorado State, a student-designed Internet home page will carry Rams football games this season.

90.   At least in part, those numbers are connected to the promotional opportunities that football games offer.