1984 in Sports - American Football

American Football

  • Super Bowl XVIII – Los Angeles Raiders won 38-9 over the Washington Redskins
  • Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record on October 7.
  • Brigham Young University (BYU) wins NCAA National Championship
  • Philadelphia Stars win United States Football League Championship, 23-3 over Arizona Wranglers

Read more about this topic:  1984 In Sports

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

    “... in every State there are more women who can read and write than the whole number of illiterate male voters; more white women who can read and write than all Negro voters; more American women who can read and write than all foreign voters.”
    —National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
    —David Storey (b. 1933)