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)
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)