American Football
- January 13 – ABC and ESPN negotiate a $1.15 billion a season contract to keep Monday Night Football.
- Super Bowl XXXII – Denver Broncos won 31–24 over the Green Bay Packers
- December 13 – The Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings return an NFL record 3 kickoff returns for touchdowns.
- NCAA – The Tennessee Volunteers claim the first ever BCS National Championship over the Florida State Seminoles.
Read more about this topic: 1998 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)