American Football
- January 3 – Fiesta Bowl (Bowl Championship Series):
- Ohio State Buckeyes win 31-24 over the Miami Hurricanes (double overtime)
- January 27 – Super Bowl XXXVII –
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers win 48-21 over the Oakland Raiders
- September 14 – Jamal Lewis sets NFL single game record for rushing yards (295) helping Baltimore Ravens beat Cleveland Browns 33-13.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“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)