Football is everywhere you look

Besides the deluge of college football on Saturdays, a night without some kind of football to watch on TV is a rarity these days.

ESPN, which gave us Navy at Pittsburgh on Wednesday night, offers Florida State at Wake Forest tonight, Hawaii at San Jose State on Friday night and Nevada at Boise State on Sunday night.

Teams agree to play any time ESPN wants them to for two reasons: money and exposure. But that doesn’t mean coaches enjoy playing on odd nights.

Florida State’s Bobby Bowden on Wednesday told Steve Czaban of the Fox Sports Radio network that, as a coach, he’s no fan of Thursday night games even though he realizes it’s good exposure for some teams.

“But the thing is, if your program is already exposed, you don’t have to have it,” Bowden said.

Trivia time

What year did ESPN first televise a Thursday night college football game?

Shirt tale

Texas Tech plays host to Texas A&M; on Saturday, and a Tech student and his fraternity are in trouble with school officials over selling a T-shirt that shows a likeness of Michael Vick hanging A&M;’s mascot, a dog named Reveille, by her leash. Also included are the words “VICK ‘EM,” a play on the A&M; slogan, “Gig ‘em.”

Texas Tech has banned the sale of the shirts, suspended the fraternity and plans to bring charges against it under the university’s code of conduct.

In other words, the young man and his fraternity brothers have been hit with a Tech-nical foul.

Good advice

It might be good for USC and UCLA, trying to put their losses last weekend behind them, to heed the words of Lou Holtz.

On his weekly “pep talk” segment on ESPN last Saturday, Holtz said: “Happiness is nothing more than a poor memory.”

Flying high

It appears the Eagles may be going to the Super Bowl.

No, not the Philadelphia Eagles, but rather the legendary band featuring lead singer Glenn Frey.

Sportsbybrooks.com reports that there of a 90% chance of the Eagles performing at halftime of the Super Bowl on Feb. 3 in Arizona.

And if that is the case, it will be Glenn Frey in Glendale.

Refreshing attitude

Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle says the Golden State Warriors are “a disgrace to the code of the professional athlete” because most of them “refuse to whine about money.”

He quotes former UCLA star Baron Davis saying, “We’re all fortunate to be playing for the amount of money we’re making.”

That’s a far cry from the approach one-time Warrior Latrell Sprewell took in 2004 when he turned down an offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves of $21 million over three years saying, “I have a family to feed.”

Of all places

The Harlem Globetrotters paid their first visit to Harlem in 20 years Tuesday, giving some school kids a sneak preview of their 150-city “Magic as Ever” national tour.

That prompted Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times to write, “Even more shocking, the New York Giants will actually play a game in New York for the first time since 1999. They play the Bills in Buffalo on Dec. 23.”

Trivia answer

1984. The game was Brigham Young at New Mexico on Oct. 25. ESPN televised two Thursday night games the next year, although one of those was on Thanksgiving.

And finally

Greg Cote of the Miami Herald offers this update: “David Beckham has returned to practice with the L.A. Galaxy, pending his next injury, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 18.”

larry.stewart@latimes.com