The crossover among people who are aware of backup rookie defensive tackles for the New England Patriots and optional characters from Japanese role playing games is not a huge one. But in the middle of that Venn-diagram lay a small group of very excited fans.

Vincent Valentine is a rotational player on the Patriots defensive line, set to play in the final game of his rookie season Sunday (in the Super Bowl) after being drafted in the third round of the 2016 NFL Draft out of Nebraska.

Vincent Valentine is also a character from 1997 game "Final Fantasy 7," arguably the most popular entry (with a re-make coming out later this year) in the long-running Japanese role playing game franchise, which released its 15th installment in the main series earlier this year.

Talking at Super Bowl LI Opening Night in Houston Monday, the 6-foot-3, 320-pound Valentine said he's heard of the fictional Valentine -- mostly because he beats him out on Google.

Valentine says that he has never played the "Final Fantasy" game that features the character with the same name as him but is "pretty sure he's a pretty cool guy."

He'd only heard of the naming crossover a while back when friends were trying to look him up online. But instead of an up-and-coming defender at Nebraska. They got pictures of a menacing-looking man with a dark past, red eyes and a habit of turning into demons.

"I finally looked it up a couple years ago, and it was crazy because that was the first person that popped up on my screen," Valentine said. "I'm like, 'Man, I can't get any love on the internet.'"

The battle to get one's name at the top of Google searches is a familiar one for people who share names with famous people. Fortunately for Valentine, he's got the perfect change to increase his name brand -- in a little game called Super Bowl LI this Sunday.

"I gotta make some plays this Sunday and maybe I can get my name above his," Valentine said.

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(Correction: In the video above, I use the phrase "kind of like a vampire dude" to describe the Final Fantasy character to the Patriots player. MassLive would like to stress that, while the character Vincent Valentine does have character traits that are often attributed to vampires as often depicted in Western culture, he is not in fact an actual vampire.)