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Five guys who get blamed for everything and praised for nothing.
means The group of linemen in football whose job is to block defenders and protect the quarterback, clearing the way for the offense to actually do something.
from Straightforward football compounding — 'offense' (the team with the ball, from Latin offendere, to strike against) plus 'line,' describing the row of big bodies lined up at the point of attack. No hidden story here: the name is purely descriptive, which is almost funny given how invisible the job is until someone fails at it.
- job description
- block people bigger and angrier than you
- stat credit
- no stats exist, only sack counts against you
- fame ceiling
- nobody learns their names until they fail
- chemistry required
- five brains syncing in under a second, repeatedly