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- Jones, a member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line, is credited with coining the term. He explained that the act of sacking the quarterback was akin to "putting the quarterback in a bag and carrying him off to the locker room." The term quickly caught on and became a fundamental part of football jargon.
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In football, sack refers to an instance of tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. The term was, as far as we can tell, coined by David "Deacon" Jones, one of the NFL's most famous defensive linemen.
Jun 16, 2013 · When Hall of Fame defensive lineman Deacon Jones passed, the tributes and memories included most prominently that he used the head slap and that he coined the term “sack.”.
The term "sack" was first popularized in the 1960s by Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones, who felt that a quarterback being sacked devastated the offense in the same way that a city was devastated when it was sacked. [5]
Jun 4, 2013 · For a long time, a quarterback’s greatest fear was David “Deacon” Jones. It was Jones who coined the word sack—because he did it so much.
Random parallel: the Danish word sæk means both ‘bag, sack’ and ‘bitch’ (the pejorative term for a woman, not the neutral term for a female dog). This is apparently from German, where Sack used to have the same meaning, but is now just a derogatory slang term for any human.
Jul 22, 2018 · The term ‘sack’ was initially popularized by NFL Hall-of-Fame linebacker Deacon Jones, who is also credited with revolutionizing the sack, in the 1960’s. Jones likened the devastation of a sack on an offense to a city’s devastation after a sacking.
