* Antonio Pierce ( born 1978 ), starting Pro Bowl Linebacker for the National Football League's New York Giants.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

# Linebacker Chuck Howley – Super Bowl V – Howley was named the MVP for Super Bowl V despite the Cowboys ' loss to the Baltimore Colts.

Linebacker Bobby Bell, who was also named to the All-AFL team, was great at run stopping and pass coverage.

Linebacker II, despite being one of the most intense bombing operations of the conflict, greatly weakened but did not cause the collapse of the communist regime, although it forced the communist government back into peace talks ; and shortly after the operation was called off.

He was also a Linebacker and defensive end for New York Giants from 1950 – 1955.

Betsy Noll ( 2011 ) was the first recipient and Riley Theiss and Ohio State Linebacker Luke Roberts were the 2012 recipients.

He was eventually leveled by New England Patriots Linebacker Matt Chatham, and was subsequently apprehended.

Dobrynin, however, misunderstood the extent to which the U. S. was willing to apply military force not involving ground troops, culminating in Operation Linebacker II.

When North Vietnam, late in the year, left the negotiating table, Nixon authorized the intensive Operation Linebacker II campaign, which forced the North Vietnamese to negotiate ; a peace treaty was signed and all U. S. combat forces withdrew.

Operation Linebacker II was a US Seventh Air Force and US Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) during the final period of US involvement in the Vietnam War.

Linebacker II was a resumption of the Operation Linebacker bombings conducted from May to October, with the emphasis of the new campaign shifted to attacks by B-52 Stratofortress Heavy bombers rather than smaller tactical fighter aircraft.

Also prompting the president toward some form of rapid offensive action was the cost of the force mobilization that had accompanied Operation Linebacker.

In America, Nixon was criticized as a " madman ", and some of the people who supported Operation Linebacker I, questioned the necessity and unusual intensity of the operation.

Although authorization was given during Operation Linebacker II to attack these sites, only the use of napalm, cluster bombs, and other antipersonnel weapons were permitted to be used in an attempt to minimize structural damage.

Linebacker Rich Scanlon ( 2005 ) was named NFL Europe Defensive MVP.

One result of the offensive was the launching of Operation Linebacker II, the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam by the U. S. since November 1968.

Operation Phantom Linebacker was a coalition military operation in Iraq designed to interdict anti-government fighters from entering Iraq from Syria.

In 1999 he was the team captain, playing in all his games as a Right Inside Linebacker and a Right Linebacker.

As a senior, he had 202 tackles ( a school-record ) and was named the Division III National Linebacker of the Year.

Pierce Arrow was followed by Operation Flaming Dart on February 7 – 11, 1965 ; Operation Rolling Thunder from March 2, 1965 to October 31, 1968 ; Operation Linebacker, May 9 to October 22, 1972 ; and Operation Linebacker II, December 18 – 29, 1972.

The FIM-92B missile can also be fired from the M-1097 Avenger and M6 Linebacker.

On the night of December 26, 1972, during Operation Linebacker II ( also referred to as the Christmas Bombings ), then Major Pham engaged a USAF Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber with air to air missiles.

In addition to interdicting the road and rail system of North Vietnam, Linebacker also systematically attacked its air defense system.

Linebacker Jack Ham told Cope, " I think your idea stinks "; Ernie " Fats " Holmes was also against the idea.

On 18 December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II ( also known as President Richard Nixon's, " Christmas Bombing "), USAF B-52 Stratofortresses of the Strategic Air Command conducted a maximum effort bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

Super Bowl XIII, the rematch, featured Cowboys Linebacker Thomas " Hollywood " Henderson saying famously " Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell c-a-t if you spotted him the C and the T ." Landry recalled in his autobiography how he cringed when he heard that, because he didn't feel that Bradshaw needed addition motivation in a big game like the Super Bowl.

* Robert Banks, Linebacker / defensive end ; national high school player of the year by the Columbus, Ohio Touchdown Club in 1982

Linebacker and defensive captain.

Linebacker Mike O ' Shea became just the third player, and first Canadian, in CFL history to record 1, 000 or more defensive tackles in a career.

* Linebacker ( LB ): Linebackers are positioned 2 to 4 yards behind the defensive line.

Richard Joseph Seigler is the current defensive line assistant coach of the Portland State Vikings college football team and former NCAA All-American and NFL Linebacker.

Linebacker Zach Thomas and defensive end Jason Taylor are among the players Bates developed in Miami.

However at the end of May, 1972, six carriers were for a short period of time on the line at Yankee Station conducting Linebacker strikes.

This led President Nixon to launch Operation Linebacker II, a bombing campaign aimed at North Vietnam's transportation network, especially around Hanoi and Haiphong.

Barksdale's B-52s participated in the Linebacker I and Linebacker II raids of 1972 – 73 at the end of the Vietnam war.

Operation Linebacker, the designation for the new interdiction campaign, would have four objectives: to isolate North Vietnam from its outside sources of supply by destroying railroad bridges and rolling stock in and around Hanoi and northeastward toward the Chinese frontier ; the targeting of primary storage areas and marshalling yards ; to destroy storage and transshipment points ; and finally, to eliminate ( or at least damage ) the north's air defense system.

* Mike Vrabel ( 1993 ), Former NFL Linebacker and current LB Coach at Ohio State

* Derrick Thomas-Class of 1984 ; Linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs ( 1989 – 1999 ); played collegiately at the University of Alabama

* Phil Clarke-Class of 1995 ; Linebacker for the New Orleans Saints ( 1999 – 2003 ); played collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh

Terry Tate: Office Linebacker was a series of short comedy television commercials created by Rawson Marshall Thurber, for Reebok, based on a short film pilot he created in 2000 ; Tate was first shown at Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.

Speight spent time at Morgan State University as a Division 1 All American Linebacker.

In 2002, Isaiah earned the starting job at Middle Linebacker, after battling for the position with Orlando Huff.

* Operation Linebacker II, described more generally as the Christmas Bombing and sometimes as " The Eleven-Day War ", began at as the first of 87 B-52 bombers, piloted by Major Bill Stocker, lifted off from Andersen AFB in Guam.

Linebacker Jeremiah Pharms was under investigation for robbing and shooting a drug dealer after police found his fingerprints at the scene, but was not charged until the season was over.

Reactivated in 1972 at Andersen AFB, Guam, as a provisional combat wing due to Andersen going back on alert due to the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive and the commencement of Operation Linebacker I and later Linebacker II in December 1972 Received 100 B-52G aircraft assigned to 4 combat squadrons.