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  • They were mostly women, big mamas whom I knew and loved, but when the good Lord climbed into their bones and lifted them up toward Sweet Liberty, kind, gentle women who mussed my hair and kissed me on my cheek and gave me dimes would burst out of their seats like Pittsburgh Steeler linebackers.†   (source)
  • With his blond crew cut and huge shoulders, he looked more like a linebacker than a doctor.†   (source)
  • Until that moment, football offenses had typically used running backs to block linebackers who came charging after quarterbacks.†   (source)
  • Nick guessed she would play linebacker on  a football team, because that's what his dad had played in college.†   (source)
  • Linebacker.†   (source)
  • He played tackle on offense and linebacker on defense, and opposing quarterbacks ran from him like scared rabbits.†   (source)
  • He slows for a moment to take stock of the situation, then charges the motorcycle like a linebacker.†   (source)
  • He had a big thick body like a linebacker's, with meaty hands and a brutish face.†   (source)
  • Although only fifteen, Josh was tall for his age, and heavy: he was big enough to be a linebacker, and the youngest on his football team.†   (source)
  • He had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school.†   (source)
  • I gave Linebacker Dog a snack, then showered and headed off to work myself.†   (source)
  • You go to these robe sites online, and the models are all linebackers with breasts.†   (source)
  • He looked like a linebacker, one who didn't play much in the sun'the freckles on his cranberry skin almost pulsed pain.†   (source)
  • Heath tried to struggle against Drew, but the kid was Broken Arrow's senior linebacker, and truly ginormous.†   (source)
  • I used to think it was the cutest thing when he did this; now it's a bit like watching a linebacker try to samba.†   (source)
  • I feel like I just got hit by a linebacker.†   (source)
  • Linebacker Lead, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • Historically, the big guys—linemen, linebackers, running backs—gravitated toward this drill while the less aggressive and less meaty types prayed they wouldn't get called out.†   (source)
  • He was the biggest linebacker they ever had over there at your high school.†   (source)
  • We must have looked like a couple of Washington Redskins linebackers after they won the Super Bowl, or maybe after they didn't even get into the play-offs in 1991.†   (source)
  • "Looks like you just lost your best friend," says Mr. Dorosti, a youthful, effusive man, folding his arms across his linebacker-wide chest.†   (source)
  • She jogs through the crowds, down the avenue, simultaneously pushing me ahead of her and shielding me like a defensive linebacker.†   (source)
  • One of the football players-a junior linebacker with biceps larger than Tom's thighs-had called him a spineless-gook-Chinese-lover one afternoon, and Tom had finally lost his cool.†   (source)
  • Then, in mid-mumble, one of his linebackers would separate some ball carrier from his spine and Bryant would shout out "Bingo!" like someone had jabbed him with a fork.†   (source)
  • My hooker chauffeur proceeds to hold me hostage with such wiles as threatening to yell 'Rape!' in a diner filled with a collection of the NFL's most carnivorous linebackers-except for one who got me out.†   (source)
  • This guy was as big as a professional football linebacker, and they both went down so hard that the breath should have been knocked out of Joe, but it wasn't, not entirely—he was wheezing but breathing—because the sand in which they landed was deep and soft, far above the highest lapping line of the compacting tide.†   (source)
  • He was thick, not lean like a swimmer but more like a linebacker.†   (source)
  • As the season got under way, Coach Verlon Dorminey insisted on moving me from quarterback to linebacker, despite the success I'd had at quarterback in eighth grade.†   (source)
  • Cain rose to meet him like a linebacker crouching to intercept a halfback, but Mark knew little about organized athletics.†   (source)
  • He must have been a linebacker.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Frank played linebacker all four years—players still played both offense and defense during those days—but he really wanted to be a quarterback.†   (source)
  • I cut upfield, but right then a Foothill linebacker shed his blocker.†   (source)
  • Up walked another teammate, a freshman 'linebacker named Antonio Turner.†   (source)
  • Roger crouched, ready to tackle me like he was a middle linebacker.†   (source)
  • You're too small to play linebacker," Monaco said.†   (source)
  • A wall of energy hit me in the chest like an invisible linebacker.†   (source)
  • I followed, but she was met just down the hall by Vernon Holbrook, a senior linebacker.†   (source)
  • Carlson blitzed the middle linebacker, and our right defensive end beat his guy.†   (source)
  • "I think I saw it more with the quarterbacks in our division," says Giants linebacker Harry Carson.†   (source)
  • He'd pancaked a linebacker at Tennessee, and another at Alabama, both future NFL draft picks.†   (source)
  • "What happened is, the linebacker stopped you," he said.†   (source)
  • Still I wasn't big enough or strong enough to go one-on-one with a linebacker in the red zone.†   (source)
  • "They said there's this rookie linebacker who's tearing up the league," he told the New York Times.†   (source)
  • I took the ball on the dead run, looked up, and saw a freshman linebacker coming up on me.†   (source)
  • You had to like the kid's confidence—taking it that way to a senior all-conference linebacker.†   (source)
  • I saw number 50, Foothill's best linebacker, shed his blocker; I felt him hit me.†   (source)
  • Had the Giants blitzed a middle linebacker, he'd have had a clear path to Joe Montana.†   (source)
  • Driessen made a great block on their middle linebacker, and I cut upfield behind it.†   (source)
  • The main thing is he's not the Willie or the Sam—the nicknames for the other linebackers.†   (source)
  • Just as he stepped up to throw, Foothill's middle linebacker blind-sided him, jarring the ball free.†   (source)
  • The kitchen chairs stood in for linebackers.†   (source)
  • A linebacker was closing, but I dipped left, did a one-eighty-degree spin, and he missed me.†   (source)
  • "The linebackers can stay," she said, tensely.†   (source)
  • And yet he would get out and go chase down, and catch, these fast little linebackers.†   (source)
  • That linebacker who stopped me—number 50.†   (source)
  • Foothill's coach assigned a linebacker to bird-dog me.†   (source)
  • Carlson guessed pass and sent the two outside linebackers on a blitz.†   (source)
  • Linebackers worked with one coach; linemen with another; wide receivers with another.†   (source)
  • In two strides I was past the linemen and the blitzing linebackers and was into the secondary.†   (source)
  • Their linebackers and safeties were still playing deep.†   (source)
  • It was the play I'd scored on earlier, but this time the Foothill linebackers didn't bite.†   (source)
  • He ran clumsily, a seven-year-old freak in a huge linebacker body, and forced himself into the air.†   (source)
  • He was at least three inches taller, less pudgy, and more bulky, like a linebacker.†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is lead, form up on me.†   (source)
  • That and the fact that I couldn't stand playing linebacker anymore.†   (source)
  • "Linebacker Lead to Sentry-Delta," he said in the clear.†   (source)
  • The first play was 97 Power …. and a linebacker came straight through and blew me up in the hole.†   (source)
  • Linebacker 4, the crop duster, moved gingerly into his slot.†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • Richardson checked his digital clock; the Linebacker flight was right on time.†   (source)
  • You heard about their middle linebacker, didn't you?"†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • All four Linebacker aircraft acted within seconds.†   (source)
  • To Thanksgiving dinner, for instance, Michael had invited a freshman linebacker named Quentin Taylor, who had no place else to go.†   (source)
  • No matter what Parcells told his rookie linebacker to do, Taylor's instinct was to find the quarterback and kill him.†   (source)
  • He'd been drafted as an outside linebacker, but in the 4-3 defense, which the Vikings played, the outside linebacker wasn't chiefly a pass rusher.†   (source)
  • Back in the study hall Miss Sue sat listening to another football player, a linebacker named Robert Russell.†   (source)
  • Informed that he would be dealing, from his left guard position, with this linebacker coming off the edge, Ayers was at first puzzled.†   (source)
  • "The deal was," said Parcells, "that whichever side the tight end lined up on, the linebacker facing him was supposed to drop back into pass coverage.†   (source)
  • He lined up at nose tackle; but the moment the Notre Dame offense broke huddle and came to the line, he backed up and became a middle linebacker, 350 pounds rocking back and forth preparing to charge.†   (source)
  • It looked certain that Braxton would be sacked for a huge loss, but he ducked under the linebacker, shook off the end, and scrambled to his right.†   (source)
  • Hugh Freeze ordered up plays that called for Michael to block a linebacker, or to pull and sweep around the right end, and leave the defensive end across from him alone.†   (source)
  • I took a handoff straight up the middle for eight yards, running right through an outside linebacker, setting up a first down on the twenty-seven.†   (source)
  • The Mac is the middle linebacker.†   (source)
  • It wasn't my fault he was a lousy linebacker; it wasn't my fault my dad had humiliated him on the field.†   (source)
  • A Foothill linebacker covered it, and minutes later their kicker split the uprights with a thirty-yard field goal, pushing their lead to 10-0.†   (source)
  • With most of Ole Miss's blockers ungainfully employed, a Bulldog linebacker shot through a gap and sacked the Rebel quarterback for a 20-yard loss, almost killing him in the bargain.†   (source)
  • The Giants' rookie linebacker Lawrence Taylor presents the greatest systematic threat Walsh's offense has ever faced; how Walsh copes with it will inform the future of football strategy.†   (source)
  • Foothill's outside linebacker tripped, and their safety was late coming up, so I picked up twelve yards before I was gang-tackled.†   (source)
  • As I crossed the goal line, all the clouds that had been hanging over me were blown away, just as I'd blown away that linebacker.†   (source)
  • It's now a skill position because he lines up against more and more teams' best athlete, their right defensive end or linebacker, the Lawrence Taylor types.†   (source)
  • "He's the biggest player anyone's ever seen, and he may be the fastest player on our team in the ten-yard dash," said Terio Franklin, the Briarcrest linebacker and kick returner with whom Michael briefly lived.†   (source)
  • Then a little smile came to his eyes and he went over to a locker and started pounding and screaming, and then Brad Middleton, the middle linebacker, joined us, and after that Heath Swenson started up, and soon everybody was pounding on the lockers and screaming, getting higher and higher.†   (source)
  • The symptoms induced by his sack-happy linebacker included, but were not restricted to: "intimidation, lack of confidence, quick throws, nervous feet, concentration lapses, wanting to know where Lawrence is all the time."†   (source)
  • I'd always figured weights were really important for linemen and linebackers but not so much for running backs.†   (source)
  • Instead of putting their bodies on the line to take their best shot at me, the linebackers and safeties were reaching out with their arms.†   (source)
  • Across the line from Michael were a defensive end and a linebacker who were Division I college football prospects; the linebacker, Chris Mosby, would later sign to play linebacker for the University of Kentucky.†   (source)
  • The linebackers were so focused on me that they had all come up, leaving our tight end wide open over the middle.†   (source)
  • Bill Parcells—and a few other NFL coaches—prefer to line up their defense in a 3-4, which looks like this: X' X X X X X X In the 3-4, the outside right-side linebacker (X') plays the role of lead blind side rusher.†   (source)
  • Foothill figured we'd be passing, so they were playing their linebackers deep and their safeties even deeper, making it a perfect time to run.†   (source)
  • College football had an appetite for all sorts of players the pros had no use for: option quarterbacks, slow fullbacks, midget linebackers.†   (source)
  • The running backs went off into a room with their fellow running backs, the linebackers disappeared with linebackers.†   (source)
  • Drew clicks on a few touchdown passes to DeShawn, they'll be forced to drop the linebackers and safeties back a few steps, and that should open up things for you.†   (source)
  • Right-side linebackers who (unlike Taylor) routinely played off the line of scrimmage continued to be paid the same, on average, as left-side linebackers.†   (source)
  • After a third series three of the linemen got screamed at for firing out and blocking linebackers instead of blocking the linemen right in front of them.†   (source)
  • When Lemming hit the road in 2004, he knew he would find big linebackers, and small defensive ends, whose chief future use would be to wreak havoc with the minds and bodies of quarterbacks.†   (source)
  • I wondered what Jack would think of that sword, whether it was a hot lady or a professional linebacker or maybe both.†   (source)
  • She wasn't sure how a high school linebacker from Hilo had wound up with Venus for a mom, but no one in the legion gave him any grief about that—not once they saw him crush rocks with his bare hands.†   (source)
  • Liza Corbin, who had been the biggest geek before a summer of modeling school and a nose job, was perched on some linebacker's lap, head thrown back against his shoulder, laughing.†   (source)
  • Oh, and by the way, during the run I made FSU's trash talking, face-mask slapping, and head-butting linebacker, Geno Hayes, miss.†   (source)
  • They had Marvin Sapp, a linebacker I grew up playing with at the Lakeshore Athletic Association's Pop Warner football league in Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • Luke was a great linebacker for LSU and had actually been my host player when I took my official visit to the school.†   (source)
  • People like running back Warrick Dunn and linebacker Derrick Brooks, both of whom I have the utmost respect for and have looked to as role models for how to live life.†   (source)
  • I continued to play hard and did what I was told at linebacker and tight end, while my dad kept filming each game every Friday night, dutifully making copies and delivering them to Coach Dorminey.†   (source)
  • So, here we were again, only this time it wasn't Pee Wee football; it was Coach Dorminey at Trinity, and he didn't want me at fullback; he wanted me at linebacker like my two older brothers.†   (source)
  • Of course, I was always ready to play Florida State, but having their senior weak-side linebacker, Geno Hayes, quoted as saying, "Tim Tebow is going down.†   (source)
  • "Let 'em come," Linebacker 4 replied.†   (source)
  • After the snap, I immediately looked left to freeze those free defenders—a linebacker and a safety were reading my eyes—and quickly threw right to Coop before they could adjust.†   (source)
  • Another was Aaron Hernandez, who did a good job catching the ball for us, since his speed at tight end made him a real match-up problem for defenses to cover with a linebacker.†   (source)
  • I did run one counter play where I kind of broke outside for about four yards and then spun back inside and was met by Lawrence Timmons, a senior linebacker, who was drafted by the Steelers the following April.†   (source)
  • The defense selected Joe Cohen, a senior defensive tackle weighing over 310 pounds, and junior Brandon Siler, a 240-pound linebacker, while the offense selected a big offensive lineman, over 300 pounds …. and me.†   (source)
  • Not only did I throw it too late and behind Percy, and right into the hands of the Arkansas linebacker who made the interception, but I stepped back as I released the ball and somehow hyperextended my right knee.†   (source)
  • Marcus Freeman, their outstanding linebacker, was right there and ran into the hole, thinking I was running; then when I pulled up and went to boot outside, I could almost hear him and was sure I could see him mouth, "Uh oh."†   (source)
  • I broke through the first wave of defenders, the defensive line, running as fast as I could, and I got past the linebackers.†   (source)
  • Dustin Doe, one of our linebackers, picked it up in full stride and took it all the way back to the house.†   (source)
  • Seeing all the linebackers cheating in so close behind the defensive line brought me back to the moment.†   (source)
  • They slanted the defensive front right side of the line into our play call, blitzed the linebackers right into it, and blitzed the cornerback off the edge of the defense.†   (source)
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