American Football
- College football Bowl Championship Series (2004 season):
- January 1 – Rose Bowl – Texas Longhorns 38–37 Michigan Wolverines
- January 4 – Orange Bowl – USC Trojans 55–19 Oklahoma Sooners: USC wins the NCAA Division I-A Football National Championship
- National Football League –
- February 6 – Super Bowl XXXIX – New England Patriots 24–21 Philadelphia Eagles at Jacksonville, Florida
Read more about this topic: 2005 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)