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* StartOfDarkness: During the 2024 Draft Spectacular, we see what Aaron Rodgers experienced during his time in the 2005 "Escape the Green Room" game, which was anger and frustration as 23 other players escaped before him. When it cuts back to Rodgers, he vehemently denies that this is a villain origin story, and insists he's well-adjusted, it's just that he hates watching the spectacle.
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* SadisticGameShow: The 2024 NFL Draft Spectacular episode focuses on the rookie class being forced into an escape room -like game show, Each of the rookies is tasked with escaping the green room before the conclusion of the first round, with some players faring better than others. As Roger Goodell puts it, "What's everyone's favorite part of draft night? Watching the children squirm as we decide their future!"
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* CanadaEh:
** Chase Claypool's accent (and character) revolve around him being Canadian.
** Any hockey players that appear in Gridiron Heights are depicted with stereotypical Canadian accents, including Edmonton Oiler Connor [=McDavid=].
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** Andrew Luck destroys the Texans, down to torturing one with a blowtorch, but he never stops apologizing and complementing them.

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** Andrew Luck destroys his division rivals (mostly but not entirely focused on the Texans, Texans), down to torturing one Jaguars player with a blowtorch, but he never stops apologizing and complementing them.
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* TheBigRace: Since Season 4, every year has featured the candidates for MVP duking it out in a literal race with elements of WackyRacing. Season 4 has them partake in a VideoGame/MarioKart-style showdown, Season 5 a race down a snowy mountain, Season 6 a regatta, Season 7 an aerial chase, and Season 8 a ''Film/MadMax''-style desert race with heavy vehicles.

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* TheBigRace: Since Season 4, every year has featured the candidates for MVP duking it out in a literal race with elements of WackyRacing. Season 4 has them partake in a VideoGame/MarioKart-style showdown, Season 5 a race down a snowy mountain, Season 6 a regatta, Season 7 an aerial chase, and Season 8 a ''Film/MadMax''-style off-road desert race with heavy vehicles.race.
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* TheBigRace: Since Season 4, every year has featured the candidates for MVP duking it out in a literal race with elements of WackyRacing. Season 4 has them partake in a VideoGame/MarioKart-style showdown, Season 5 a race down a snowy mountain, Season 6 a regatta, and Season 7 an aerial chase.

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* TheBigRace: Since Season 4, every year has featured the candidates for MVP duking it out in a literal race with elements of WackyRacing. Season 4 has them partake in a VideoGame/MarioKart-style showdown, Season 5 a race down a snowy mountain, Season 6 a regatta, and Season 7 an aerial chase. chase, and Season 8 a ''Film/MadMax''-style desert race with heavy vehicles.
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** Richardson continues to do this in all of his Season 8 appearances, most notably losing his rookie baby voice between "Anthony" and "Richardson" in the season finale.

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** Richardson continues to do this in all of his Season 8 appearances, most notably losing his rookie baby voice between "Anthony" and "Richardson" culminating in the season finale.finale where he does this ''several'' times while still never saying anything other than those two words.
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** Richardson does this again in the Season 8 opener, the QB Support Group Episode in Bryce Young's cutaway, and while in a hospital bed (symbolizing his season-ending injury) in Gardner Minshew's flashback in the NFL B-Team episode.

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** Richardson does continues to do this again in the all of his Season 8 opener, the QB Support Group Episode in Bryce Young's cutaway, appearances, most notably losing his rookie baby voice between "Anthony" and while in a hospital bed (symbolizing his season-ending injury) in Gardner Minshew's flashback "Richardson" in the NFL B-Team episode.season finale.

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* FaceHeelTurn: In the "Bosa Brothers" episode, The Watt brothers (JJ, TJ, and Derek) and [=McCourty=] twins try to stop Nick and Joey Bosa's gang of defenders "living on the edge". Their plan fails when [[TokenEvilTeammate TJ Watt]] reveals himself to be "living on the edge" like the Bosas' crew.

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In the "Bosa Brothers" episode, The Watt brothers (JJ, TJ, and Derek) and [=McCourty=] twins try to stop Nick and Joey Bosa's gang of defenders "living on the edge". Their plan fails when [[TokenEvilTeammate TJ Watt]] reveals himself to be "living on the edge" like the Bosas' crew.crew.
** In the Season 8 Finale, Patrick Mahomes lampshades this through a broadcasted message in the now Chiefs-controlled Gridiron Heights.
-->--'''Attention Gridiron Heights. I'm a villain now. Sorry.'''



* RedAndBlackTotalitarianism: When Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs take over Gridiron Heights in the finale, the buildings are draped with red banners with the Chiefs logo, and the refs wear red and black uniforms with motorcycle helmets.



** For a non-rookie example, we have [[ManChild Patrick]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes Mahomes]] and his "Kermit the Frog" voice.

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** For a non-rookie example, we have [[ManChild Patrick]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes Mahomes]] and his "Kermit the Frog" voice.voice, although in the Season 8 finale he abandons this for a deeper, more malevolent sounding voice.

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