Players
- "Beast Mode" - Marshawn Lynch, Seattle Seahawks, named for his violent running style and unusual ability to break tackles
- "The Manimal" David Meade, ASCS Seahawks
- JJ "Swatt" - JJ Watt, Houston Texans, named for his ability to bat down passes at the line of scrimmage
- "Legion of Boom" - Defensive backfield of the Seattle Seahawks (Brandon Browner, Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, Earl Thomas), named for their hard-hitting and physical style of play
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Famous quotes containing the word players:
“The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out [a] line. My answer hath been, “Would he had blotted a thousand.””
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)