Harder to forgive is the swipe they took at Christian athletes, the National Football League and the sport of football in general.
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"It is the first time a Welsh club side has brought the League Cup back to Wales which means it is wider than the sport of football, it is an historic day for Welsh sport and one that will live on through the years to come, " she said.
"He reminded Mr Blatter that football was the national sport and people in England were extremely passionate about football, " the spokesman said.
Scheduling is a tough one for sports outside of football, but they could simply join another conference for every sport except football.
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"None of us were interested in politics - just the football and the sport, " he said.
Under the progressive leadership of Mr. Praful Patel, AIFF is committed to make football the top sport in the country following cricket.
Clearly it is in the interest of football as a sport to consolidate and build on the progress the game has made in Africa, Asia and North America.
American aficionados of rugby union can only dream of the Croesian sums of money that are lavished on American football, a sport that vaguely resembles rugby in wimpish armour-plating.
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"We have been approached and if we can lend our weight for doing something for the good of Manchester United and football we will, " Harris told BBC Sport's Football Focus show.
"I think that coaches either forget, or don't even realize, that football is a hugely cognitive sport, " he said in an interview with football magazine The Blizzard.
When I got the opportunity to play a contact sport that wasn't as violent as football, I got the best of both worlds: my parents got a sport that wasn't as violent as football, and I got to hit people.
Was it appropriate and respectful to celebrate the sport of football just five days later?
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Football is the collision sport that carries the highest risk of injury to every bodily joint.
The university sees more potential introducing the platform for its most popular sport, football, in the fall.
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We all are aware that playing the sport of football breaks down every joint in the body.
The NFL QBR was our first project because football is our biggest sport and the quarterback is the biggest position.
It is clear British Asians are no longer focused solely on cricket, but are now choosing football as their preferred sport.
Our engagement with IMG Reliance comes at a pivotal stage of this pursuit to enhance the quality of football and develop the sport across the country.
Football is a sophisticated sport with several ways to win.
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It is the second most popular spectator sport after football.
Lucha libre, as it is called, is the country's second most popular sport after football, drawing over 7m a year to live matches, with many more watching on television.
Last week, the Swiss Football Association told BBC Sport that Djourou's injury was not as bad as first feared and that the player was confident of returning to action this month.
Though still America's second-most-watched sport after football--this season's 51st running of the Daytona 500 is expected to pull in 17 million viewers--NASCAR is no longer the unstoppable marketing phenomenon it used to be.
So unlike a sport like football or hockey that can turn to rule changes to improve player safety, extreme sports are only going to become more dangerous as participants push the limits of what humans can do.
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What the injury proves for certain though is that professional football is a brutal sport where a promising career can come to a crashing halt because of a devastating injury caused by even a moment of indecision.
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As much as the explosion of Fantasy Football leagues, office pools, gambling and television have clearly made the National Football League the dominant sport in the country, the foundation was laid by former commissioner Pete Rozelle and the father-son duo of Steve and Ed Sabol, who founded NFL Films in 1964.
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Some schools will allocate a portion of contribution revenue to football while other schools will instead group the income as athletic revenue unallocated by sport, even though football is attributable for its vast majority.
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Given that limitation, the most-represented sport was American football, with 19 billionaire owners.
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