Bobcat's Pause

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

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
—George F. Will

Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Halftimes take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.
—Erma Bombeck

If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
—Bob Golic

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
—Jim Bouton

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
—Duffy Daugherty

When I went to high school, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
—George Raveling

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public
—Phyllis Diller

Monopoly at Age 70

The world's best selling board game is 70 years old. Here are some facts about the game that is produced in 26 languages and sold in 80 countries:

-More than 200 million games have been sold worldwide.
-More than five billion little green houses have been "built" since 1935.
-The longest game in history lasted 70 straight days.
-The longest game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours.
-The longest game underwater went on for 45 days.
-The longest game played upside-down lasted 36 hours.
-The largest outdoor game ever played used a gameboard 938 ft. wide by 765 ft. long.
-The largest indoor game ever played used a gameboard 122 ft. by 122 ft.
A total of $15,140 comes with the standard set.

Did you Know?

-There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

-The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in a lifetime, and the average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation.

-The Empire State Building weighs approximately 365,000 tons and was built with more than 10 million bricks.
The only part of the human body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.