I get it.
This is the National Football League, where superstar athletes are not supposed to wear their emotions on their sleeves.
These men fly across the football field at breakneck speeds, delivering bone-crunching hits, making acrobatic catches, and engaging in battle in the trenches against super-sized men...all while appearing immune to the troubling thought that each of them is one hit away from a potential career-ending injury.
NFL players wear helmets on the field and often hide behind cliches off the field. Unlike their NBA and MLB counterparts, NFL players wear helmets that both provide anonymity and a place to hide when things don’t go well.