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:
“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)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)