{"id":19402,"date":"2025-05-03T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19402\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:44:09","slug":"100-men-vs-a-gorilla-former-seattle-seahawk-claims-you-only-need-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/19402\/","title":{"rendered":"100 men vs. a gorilla? Former Seattle Seahawk claims you only need 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c100 men vs. one gorilla\u201d debate has resurfaced online, and former NFL player Luke Wilson says the Seattle Seahawks might be to thank.<\/p>\n<p>The viral hypothetical question asks whether one silverback gorilla or 100 men would win in a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is widely believed that this trend may have started in 2020 from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/whowouldwin\/comments\/hlul5b\/100_men_versus_1_silverback_gorilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">subreddit<\/a>, Wilson, a former tight end for the Seattle Seahawks, took to social media Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might have started in the Seahawks locker room ten years ago,\u201d he said in a video posted to his X account, \u201cI mean, at one point, this thing got so ferocious that I called the zoo on lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Can 100 men kill 1 Gorilla? Absolutely.<br \/>We could get it done with 9. Explanation \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iflE9B32Q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/iflE9B32Q0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luke Willson (@LWillson_82) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LWillson_82\/status\/1917525609913409552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilson said that the people online are \u201cplaying the game wrong,\u201d and that back in the day, he and his fellow Seahawks debated it a little differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, 100 people can do it. The question is, how few can get it done. And my answer is aggressively low, because in the game we played back in the day in a locker room, you get to choose,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Sofia Silvia and Frank Sumrall, MyNorthwest<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-300X250.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201c100 men vs. one gorilla\u201d debate has resurfaced online, and former NFL player Luke Wilson says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,1631,3932,3930,6,238,237,261,2635,9,3931,1951,1952],"class_list":{"0":"post-19402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-mynorthwest-com","11":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-seahawks","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-seattleseahawks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114441372775976476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}