Super Bowl XLIV and Einstein

In the spirit of Super Bowl hype, I think it would be fun to review some smart football related blurbs. It helps us make sense of the crazy world we live in – or at least, give us a break from it. My thanks to various internet sources and mostly to author/editor, Carlo DeVito, who’s collected a lot of great stuff.

 

Having two weeks off gives family, friends, and the media more time to get on your nerves.               - Deion Sanders, commenting on the two-week break between the conference championship games             and the Super Bowl:

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.      - Bill Peterson, pro football coach giving pep talk:

 Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A.’                                           - Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson, (Super Bowl XIII)

I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.   - Terry Bradshaw

“I’d run over Russ Grimm’s mother to win the Super Bowl, too.”   - Matt Millen, Raiders linebacker (after learning the Redskins’ OG Russ Grimm said he’d ‘run over his own mother to win the Super Bowl. (Super Bowl XVIII)

Look, if my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way.   - Bo Jackson

 “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”                    - John Madden

Let’s face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.   - Tim Green

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.                     - Joe Theismann

A quarterback doesn’t come into his own until he can tell the coach to go to hell.   - Johnny Unitas

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.    - Eugene McCarthy

Football combines the two worst features of modern American life: it’s violence punctuated by committee meetings.   - George F. Will

I slept like a baby – I woke and cried every two hours.      - Fred Taylor, pro football player after a loss. 

A lot of parents think kids ought to learn responsibility from work, and I’ve always said. “Baloney.” Kids learn leadership and organization from games, not from having fun.                                          - John Madden former pro football coach and broadcaster.

 When you stop playing the game, it’s like dying. - Tim Green

I miss football so much – heck, I even miss the interceptions. - Archie Manning

The guy who says he’d give it all up to play this game for free? I’m like,  “Yeah. Go right ahead.” The fact is, this game is too hard. You can’t do it for nothing. - Phil Simms

 

When you win, nothing hurts.  - Joe Namath

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.   - Vince Lombardi

Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you.  - Ray Nitschke

If their IQ’s were lower, they would be geraniums.  - Russ Francis

We’re basically a save-the-whale-team; we can’t turn down big people who can play.                         - George Young, pro football exec.

If your work is not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.                                       - John Mazur, pro football coach

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.   - Vince Lombardi

 

Comments

[Russ]

Great stuff Steve! I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed.

[Gene Brady]

Fun to see the 'Norman Einstein' quote again. Theismann was right. Nobody in football was ever like Norm.