There was a movie that came out in the year 2000 called The Replacements. It was loosely based on the 1987 NFL strike and the football team from Washington. It stars Keanu Reeves, who is an absolute king, as a former star college quarterback leading a band of replacement players.
At one point, Gene Hackman, who apparently has cornered the market on being a head coach in sports movies, asks his team what scares them on the field. Reeves’ character, Shane Falco, describes the abstract concept of “quicksand” while playing:
You’re playing and you think everything is going fine.