History of Monday Night Football

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, monday, night and/or football:

“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I have yfounde in myn astrologye,
As I have looked in the moone bright,
That now a Monday next, at quarter night,
Shal falle a rain, and that so wilde and wood,
That half so greet was nevere Noees flood.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“by night only crazy things
like the full moon and the whippoorwill

and us, are busy.”
—Charles Olson (1910–1970)

“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)