(Fans may use small devices to scratch their score-checking itches or watch highlights, but once you've counted the laces on a televised football, it's hard to go back.)

It seemed as if the whole game were being shot in deep close-up, but somehow, CBS didn't sacrifice the broad, horizontal nature of televised football.

His decision was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1984 and the N.C.A.A. left the business of televised football.

And thanks to the upsurge in televised football they had seen enough of the real thing to know that the game wasn't always so great for the body, either.

The newest wrinkle in televised football will dawn in early November 2006.

Lord was a staunch critic of televised football.

April 19 - The first televised football (soccer) match, England vs. Scotland, shown by the BBC.

It was said last year that the brutal violence of televised football brings out the latent brutish instinct of the wife-beater.

At the time pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market, as was charging fans to watch live televised football.

Instant replay has been credited as a primary factor in the rise of televised American football, although it was popular on television even before then.