Now that, that is not something you see on a Notre Dame football field every Saturday.
The bottom line is that these people see football as a way of gaining the respect they find hard to come by in other spheres of life.
Where Shanghai and Guangzhou are concerned, the recruitment drive is being funded by wealthy individuals who, according to Simon Chadwick, professor of sport business strategy at England's Coventry University, see football as a way to gain political influence.
But if the foreign players leave a legacy of sons as skilful as Giovani Dos Santos, maybe Mexican football will see that as a fair trade.
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Once you see The Sopranos or a baseball, football or basketball game in high def, filling a big, sharp screen, you'll wince at having to go back to fuzzy regular TV.
"Every weekend when I was about 10 I go with him to see football and to play football and then I said, it's a good job, " remembers Assou-Ekotto.
Most kids see live football, like theatre, as a treat three or four times a year.
It is amazing to visit a project like this and see the effect football has on young people.
Were Thomas Jefferson to come back alive and see the same slide, he would spike a football and throw up his hands in triumph!
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Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football see more social conversation when a game features a team from the east coast, and less when a team is from the west coast.
"If you are wealthy and want to buy a football club then I can see the attraction, but I don't know of any interest in the deal - and most football clubs that have floated are now back in private hands, " says Mr Hackleton.
How can a true football fan not want to see Cameroon in action?
"I don't think you would see Wayne Rooney turning out for a local Manchester league football club as part of his rehab!"
If GM's executives think the bailout made the company a political football, wait till they see what happens when American car buyers start finding "Made in China" tags on Chevrolets and Cadillacs.
And I know we've got a football family here -- I see an outstanding all-star -- all-pro in the audience -- and when you've got your last game you've got to leave it all out there.
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Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- It may surprise the casual visitor at Arlington National Cemetery to see a rubber duck on a headstone or an old football helmet lying in the manicured grass of a fallen soldier's grave.
But Rice would rather see her beloved Stanford football team lose than work for a Democrat.
The Ipswich Town fan is also a regular visitor to Portman Road to see the Championship football team in action, along with his mother and brother, Jack, 13.
"There's a lot in football you don't see, " said Gibson.
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But I also love marketing and advertising and as such I decided I want to go behind-the-scenes and pull back the astroturf to see what goes on in the marketing department of a professional football team.
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Many team owners are clamoring to see the sport turn into a franchise system, similar to professional football and baseball.
You could see this as a bad thing, or a healthy positive football returning to its proper place as trifling entertainment, and not the bombastic life-consuming gladiator saga it's become.
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World of Warcraft no more proves that gamers are violent, then being a football or boxing fan proves that you love to see people suffer brain damage and spinal injuries.
Celtic are also having to cut their cloth according to the relative decline of Scottish football, which will be a theme you might see running through the annual meeting on 14 October.
Those were the kids from Navy young men who will never play in the NFL but may very well fight in Iraq very soon who somehow found a way to beat Notre Dame 46-44 in three overtimes in a football game as remarkable as anyone is likely to ever see.
Sports-TV networks are jumping in, too: Viewers watching NFL Network's coverage of the National Football League draft last month could use a mobile app to see a range of content during the telecast, including video interviews with players selected in the first round and analysis from experts.
With that anticipated match-up now a reality, how difficult will it be for fans of football to see the game live?
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More air time is spent on football than personal life, but Heavener says viewers see what makes Tebow a special person and athlete.
The free concert on Thursday, which also acts as a curtain raiser to the new football season in the US, will see the band playing in Times Square and Giants' Stadium in New York.
Each of them is at least 50 years old (sorry, Bowl Championship Series--start a real college football playoff and the finals will become an instant must-see game).
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