Possible Clues:

• Elder deities of Greek myth
• They hit the ground hard in Tennessee
• Is a little bird the little answer to big things?
• To a large extent it sounds as if one makes them tight
• Intellectual greats giving stupid person curt response?
• Olympians brought them down
• They clashed in a 1981 film
• Nashville team
• Tennessee's football squad
• NFL team with a raccoon mascot