All The Cameos And NFL References You May Have Missed In HBO’s ‘Ballers’

Unsurprisingly, HBO’s pilot of Ballers, a show with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as retired Dolphins’ linebacker Spencer Strasmore, featured a whole lot of cameos and references to the NFL.

Take a look.

Steven Jackson

Antonio Brown

DeSean Jackson

Don Shula and Larry Csonka

Mark Schlereth

Sun Life Stadium

The trashing of the Jacksonville Jaguars, “where careers go to die”

The Super Bowl ring, complete with the Vince Lombardi trophy

Tiki Barber’s post NFL career

The use of NFL logos (which was kind of surprising)

NFL players and Twitter

Poor Steve Largent

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