American Football
- January 28 - Super Bowl XXIV - San Francisco 49ers won 55-10 over the Denver Broncos
- November 11 - Derrick Thomas has 7 sacks for Kansas City Chiefs against Seattle Seahawks.
- The Colorado Buffaloes are named the AP Poll champion.
- The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are named the UPI Poll
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy all the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent. No prophecy, however seemingly extravagant, as to future achievements in this way [is] likely to equal the reality.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)