"In America it is sport that is the opiate of the masses." --Russell Baker   "Pro football is like nuclear warfare.  There are no wionners, only survivors." --Frank Gifford   "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.  It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasures in witnesssing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting." --Ge…