Deep in the crevices of sports TikTok, hiding in a spider hole, is a new trend that you've perhaps come across. Thinking back on heartbreaking games of the past, have you ever thought, "Wow, that guy absolutely terrorized my team"?

With both the NFL and English Premier League back in action, fans are dredging up painful memories of players who have ruined their weekends time and again. This genre of meme has an unofficial name — "football terrorist" — and it’s being made literal in the kind of darkly absurd memes only TikTok could deliver.

These SportsTok edits splice together lowlight reels of those players with clips of former Iraqi president and dictator Saddam Hussein.

Yes, this is very real. The edits don’t just splice in Saddam clips — they’re also set to a nasheed called "Al

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