great sports names , cards that catch your eye becasue of the players name

packCollector

I almost bid on this card just becasue I thought it was pretty comical.

A761506

Golfcollector

Nebraska had 2 great ones in the late 70's early 80' s at I'Back

I.M. Hipp
and Jarvis Redwine

bobsbbcards

We are so juvenile.

BackwardsMan

Some of the best names I've heard are from hockey. Though they may not be comical it's just the length of the name.

John Vanbiesbrouck
Ed Staniowski
Peter Sidorkiewicz

All great names

carew4me

1973 Saints FB card.

Happy Feller

There is also a Dick Shiner in the 69 FB issue.

RepublicaninMass

1985 topps Rusty Kuntz

wlf3

the first two that popped into my head were Dick Pole and Rusty Kuntz... but already mentioned.

goodriddance189

Dick Trickle

!!!!!!

ctsoxfan

SDSportsFan

1973 Topps (FB) Tom Beer
1972 Topps (FB) Fair Hooker

And two of my favorites:

John Boccabella and Biff Pocoroba from 1970's Topps baseball


Steve

gemint

<< <i>1985 topps Rusty Kuntz >>



That's Rusty Willy's dream card! If anyone has a PSA 10 of this card, let Rusty know.

phreakydancin

<< <i>Some of the best names I've heard are from hockey. Though they may not be comical it's just the length of the name.

John Vanbiesbrouck
Ed Staniowski
Peter Sidorkiewicz

All great names >>


Lots of eastern European players in the NHL make for lots of long, unpronounceable names...
Sergei Krivokrasov
Alexander Karpovtsev
Oleg Tverdovsky
Maxim Afinogenov
Andrei Kostitsyn
Dmitry Afanasenkov

Oh, and my dream scoring play would be "Cheechoo to Tootoo to Ruutu".

phreakydancin

One more...



This one cracks me up as much for the picture as his name.

JrMacdaddy

Lake

Trout

Bass

kr580

Dusty Bonner (a QB in the NFL somewhere)
Mike Dumas (a CB used to be in the NFL)
Homer Bush (baseball player ... Name has 2 of the biggest idiots ever )
Ron Tugnutt (NHL goalie)

some more... can't think of em tho.