"He's a little heavier player," Coach Jeff Fisher said of Hayes.
"They're all heavy players," Julien said, adding that Krug "has handled himself well".
Whatever the reasons, state lottery officials and the companies they hire to run the games appear to be concentrating on the heaviest players.
A 2006 survey by Scripps Howard newspapers of the deaths of 3,850 professional pro football players over the last century found that the heaviest players were more than twice as likely as lighter players to have died before their 50th birthdays.
Mozilo is hardly a scapegoat, but his misdeeds, as real as they are, have overshadowed those of C.E.O.s at other failed institutions, like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers, all heavy players in high-risk subprime loans.
O'Neal, one of the heaviest players in NBA history at 7ft 1in and 325lbs, won four championships – two with LA and one with Miami – and one MVP award in a glittering career, and ranks seventh all-time in points scored.
They qualify well, hopes are raised and then they find that on the highest stage the shirt hangs heavy, players lose faith in what got them there and the result is a safety-first style that results in grouchiness and early exits.
Did you know that the six tallest squads at the World Cup were from Europe, that Germany scored as many goals as Portugal, Greece, Italy, England, Japan, Honduras, Russia, Cameroon and Iran put together, that Germany had the heaviest players, or that Cameroon manager Volker Finke was the most experienced at the tournament?
Describing what it calls ''chatter,'' or midsize prizes, Scientific Games concludes, "Better to increase the number of chatter prizes in a game aimed at heavy players so that they see more of the prizes they are playing for and will communicate their excitement to others, creating a buzz for the game".
