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Ricky Watters (innate April 7, 1969) is a previous American Football running back who played for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, and eventually a Seattle Seahawks. Watters played college football at Notre Dame.
Watters gained ill fame inside Philadelphia for his infamous line "For who? For what?" fallowing his foremost game as an Eagle in September 3, 1995 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, when he stopped short in a pass route to stay away from email (the Sea rover' 21-6 triumph within the game was their foremost in the game played each out-of-doors & in unreal turf since their 1980 opener and snapped the 27-game losing streak for the two in this situation).
a similar incident occurred the single season late around a away game against the Arizona Cardinals on November 24, 1996: after a Eagles experienced been stopped for ternary plays around a row & forced to punt, Watters come off a field, pointing to his mate from either the offensive line trailing behind him, and screamed, "There's nothin' there ... there's nothin' there!" (apparently intending to convey a idea that a offensive line failed to open any holes for Watters in the last series of plays).
Despite his periodically cheeky personality, Watters had considerable football skill too. Becoming the 1st running off back to rush for terminated Thou yards withwithin a year for Troika separate teams, he finished his NFL career sustaining 10,643 yards rushing & 4248 yards getting, too when 91 touchdowns in regular year play.
In January 29, 1995, Watters scored 3 touchdowns within San Francisco's Extremely Bowl Twenty-nine 49-26 triumph above a San Diego Chargers. He besides shares a postseason record for rushing touchdowns around a game, by using Five against the New York Giants in a January 1993 playoff game.
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