No, a computer orphan isn't anything like a football widow.

She truly is a football widow, he said.

Fantasy football even produces its own version of the football widow.

Football widows have nothing on the mates of the stage's long-term gainfully employed.

Cheryl Esiason spoke to the crowd about being a football wife rather than a football widow.

"Football widows" - what do they know?

Everyone knows a football widow.

Liberation Day for football widows.

"Instead of football widows, there'd be tractor widows.

The Old Homestead Steakhouse at 56 Ninth Avenue is holding a free dinner for 40 football widows.

"We offer an out to all the football widows who don't like hanging out with a bunch of drunk men screaming at megascreen TV's," she said.

Anne Goodman, the owner, has included men-only stitch sessions and Football Widow Sundays in the store's weekly class program.

She also released video singles through her label in the 1990s, including "Football Widow" and filmmaker Dan Rose's production of "The Split."

TRA-C CURTIS will never be a football widow.

But Ms. Sirot is a football widow in this teasingly melancholy solo, danced to a traditional Appalachian waltz on a stage littered with footballs.

It is similar in concept and may in some cases have replaced the football widow, which in the UK is often replaced by the "golf widow."

Having lost the National Football League to Fox, it has counterprogrammed with movies made from romance novels, hoping to find a significant number of football widows and other viewers.

Cordell Jackson & her Guitar: "Football Widow"/"I'm at Home Again (In the Memories of My Mind.

Shepherds rather than sheep, football buffs rather than football widows, fans of "L.A. Law" rather than "NYPD Blue."

For Football Widows There will be a cooking class for women that is devoted to party food and drinks on Feb. 5 from 5 to 9:30 p.m.at the Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street.

She has been explaining football to women - "football widows" - for the past 14 years as the founder of Football University for Women, a weeklong course that begins with a chalk talk and game films on Tuesdays at the Dolphins' training facility at Nova Southeastern.

Pictures of him and his brother Simon in the dugout with Brian fostered cosy images of Northern family life but in truth the boys and their sister were football orphans and their mum, Barbara, a football widow forever trying to cover up for her husband's unpredictable behaviour.

LEAD: "It'll be nice to have my husband back and the TV set off for a change," said Rhonda Palazzo at an annual "football widows" party held at the Old Homestead Restaurant in Manhattan on Sunday while husbands watched the Super Bowl telecast at another party elsewhere.