Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.