Fullbacks

I miss my youth soccer days when all the fullbacks were the fat kids. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Housing pros even have a well-developed lingo to describe these people: retirees who move to the sun belt, dislike it and move back home are called "fullbacks," while folks who retreat to an in-between location (say, a Chicagoan who moves to Florida and then Tennessee) are called "halfbacks." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Because sending fullbacks on the attack leaves space for opponents to exploit, its big weakness is defense. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2011)

Following a trend, talented fullbacks are scarce, with none expected to be drafted on the first day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the Bills saw the Patriots on the field with a personnel group or alignment that looked vulnerable to the run, they put their wide receivers or tight ends in motion and snapped the ball when they entered the offensive backfield— turning them into makeshift fullbacks to block for running back Fred Jackson. ❋ Reed Albergotti (2011)

There, he plays to the "bubble" or tight end side, largely takes on fullbacks and tight ends and has reads that are more run-oriented. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)

Instead, Luis Enrique, who was missing his first-choice fullbacks, deployed a pair of players known for attacking, Simone Perrotta and Rodrigo Taddei, in those two defensive positions. ❋ Gabriele Marcotti (2011)

The idea was to make Brazil water-tight defensively, while allowing Kaka and the front men with a little help from the attacking fullbacks to do damage on the other end of the pitch. ❋ Gabriele Marcotti (2011)

He did this even though he had two able-bodied specialist fullbacks, Aleandro Rosi and Marco Cassetti, on the bench. ❋ Gabriele Marcotti (2011)

Not many NFL teams use blocking fullbacks any more, but the Giants and Jets are two that do, and I love them. ❋ Grrm (2010)

At the same time, the extra protection largely absolved Real's front three—Ronaldo, Mesut Ozil and Karim Benzema—of defensive duties and allowed the fullbacks, Marcelo and Sergio Ramos , to storm forward, providing additional width and pinning back Atletico on the wings. ❋ Gabriele Marcotti (2011)

I don't know ... fullbacks don't generally get a lot of ink in match recaps. ❋ Box Seats Blogger (2010)

As out-and-out wingers have been replaced by versatile wide players capable of drifting infield and orchestrating play from the center of the pitch see Andres Iniesta and Ryan Giggs, a side effect has been that space has opened up in front of the fullbacks, whose main job used to be marking opposing wingers. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2011)

That could mean more I-formation sets and more use of fullbacks T.J. Pridemore and Steven Wilks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There also is a new face, one of the more venerable fullbacks the league has seen: Lorenzo Neal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

-- FB Joe Tronzo -- Tronzo is one of the top fullbacks in the draft, a compact 5-foot-11 player who's an excellent blocker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

McMichael will coach the fullbacks and tight ends. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I note that Clarke & Dalglish have also adopted Smith's tactic of using fullbacks (for Johnson and Aurelio, read Whittaker and Broadfoot) as wing backs who can get forward to support a lone front man from a 5 man midfield (usually to little effect in the case of Broadfoot) or drop back into a packed 5 man defence whenever the opposition gets the ball (usually to little effect in the case of Whittaker). ❋ Unknown (2011)