Football Quotes by Steve Rushin

Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,…

— Steve Rushin

Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At…

— Steve Rushin

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that…

— Steve Rushin

I'm a product of the 1970s.

— Steve Rushin

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

— Steve Rushin

Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason…

— Steve Rushin

The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn…

— Steve Rushin

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57.…

— Steve Rushin

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of…

— Steve Rushin

“At that hour, a shaft of sunlight shone through stained glass. Which is to say, windows whose glass was comprehensively stained—by a double-glazing of…

— Steve Rushin

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how…

— Steve Rushin

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke,…

— Steve Rushin

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us…

— Steve Rushin

“Madman Muntz was a wildly successful automobile salesman who had pioneered the loud television hard sell to move cars off his lot.”

— Steve Rushin