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)
“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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)