Their top running backs (LaDainian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene), starting cornerbacks (Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie), starting safety (Eric Smith) and starting right tackle (Damien Woody) traded pads for parkas, all inactive, relegated to the sideline.
Asteroid Base's collaborative exploration game plays much like Affordable, with the objective to steer a ship through maps of increasing complexity; but it offers more flexibility, as players can switch between roles and responsibilities on the fly without trading pads.
The vivid family ghosts conjured in poems like "Lineage," where Xie's mother works "a steamed pot of land," or "Metamorphosis," when she "trades the pad of a stethoscope for a dining room spatula," have disappeared in life but can still take shape and feel new on the page.
Players like to talk about "swagger," but few display it, at least once they trade in shoulder pads for formal wear.
Take a look at the futuristic abodes below and let us know if you'd trade your current pad for a rolling one in the comments.
But now, parkour has grown up, traded the pavement for padding and turned into a big business.
Dave Sharma, Australia's ambassador to Israel, on 15 September tweeted an image of himself with Roy at Australia's new "landing pad", a trade initiative in the country.
Alongside it were all the other tools of his trade: a helmet, shoulder pads, game pants and two sets of cleats – interchangeable depending on the weather and the condition of the field.
The economy's fortunes are closely linked to its continued success as a launching pad for trade and investment in China's thriving economy.
As managed care has compelled more and more psychiatrists to trade their notebooks for prescription pads, the classic image of the patient on the couch has been replaced by a man with a pill in his palm.
