Ability aside...which athletes had the coolest names?
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I'll toss out a few.
Haystacks Calhoun
Cassius Clay
Secretariat
Johnny Unitas
Mario Andretti
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World B. Free
Tedy Bruschi
Eric
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Torrold DeShaun "Rod" Smart
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Hotrod Huntley
Charlie Hustle
Pistol Pete
Cha Cha Muldowney
Choo Choo Coleman
Shooty Babbitt
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Chocolate Thunder. ( Darryl Dawkins). Earl (The Pearl) Monroe. Magic Johnson
If this thread is limited to actual legal names (as opposed to nicknames) then in addition to World B. Free I give you:
Metta World Peace.
If nicknames are allowed I always liked Black Jesus (aka Walt Frazier), Dr. J (Julius Irving) and Magic (Ervin Johnson).
Cornbread Maxwell
Fat Lever
Tree Rollins
Downtown Freddie Brown
Hollywood Henderson
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Hollywood Henderson......now there is a blast from the past. I still blame his for the loss to the Steelers for running of his mouth before the game say Bradshaw was so stupid he couldn't spell CAT if you gave him the C and T! Plus the bad PI call.
And then there was Jackie Smith in the endzone! All of this and we only lost by 4!!!
true story -- he won the lottery here in Texas around the turn of the century. roughly 30 million, iirc
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Given names as well as nicknames are welcome.
Seems there was a contest in the early 1980's to give Joe Montana a nickname.
Best comment was that he already had one and needed a real name.
Speaking of football players, I remember Frenchy Fuqua. He played for the Steelers in the early 1970s and was involved in the Immaculate Reception play. He was very flamboyant, including wearing a cape and wearing custom made shoes with tall heels made out of clear plexiglass. The plexiglass heels were not solid. They were hollow and filled with water. In each water filled heel was a goldfish swimming around.
Who on the Sports Forums remember Frenchy and his goldfish shoes?
Dick Trickle
Don't remember Frenchy but I was a dinner table away from Franco Harris and Lynn Swann in Vegas, late 70's.
The shoes were called perpetual heels, big in Detroit during that era. never saw goldfish though.
Yelberton Abraham "Y.A." Tittle
Rusty Kuntz.
Catfish Hunter
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J. J. Putz
Blue Moon Odom
Sunny Sixkiller
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
who is that guy?
Gates Brown
Boog Powell
Harmon Killebrew
Those were sluggers.
For nicknames The Nigerian Nightmare for Christian Okoye, Splendid Splinter /Teddy Ballgame for Ted Williams.
Ha Ha Clinton Dix
Ben Gay
Did he get straightened out by a
Fair Hooker?
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Ralph
The Throwin Samoan
Had to google the real name. Jack Thompson of Washington State.
Busted in the NFL
My all time fav. Cornbread Maxwell. "Sweet Daddy" Siki (Wrestler), Billy "Whiteshoes" Johnson, Mugsy Bogues.
Sparky Lyle.
Sparky Anderson.
Spud Webb.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
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Tiger Woods
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson in the NFL.
Gomer Hodge in MLB.
Robert "Bingo" Smith in the NBA.
Walt "No Neck" Williams in MLB.
Mac Curtis Speedie in the NFL.
Raghib "Rocket" Ismail in the NFL.
Bullet Bob Hayes in NFL.
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“Rip” Repulski.
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Ohh, forgot about him.
As a young lad Dallas fan, I was infatuated with him being touted as the fastest man alive.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
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He was something!
** I was infatuated with him being touted as the fastest man alive**
at the time it was true.
my father passed away with a few things left in his locker at work. One of those things was a Rusty Kuntz card...which I still have.
Short NFL career but Skeets Nehemiah comes to mind as well.
Cool papa Bell.
When the word cool is actually part of the nickname, I believe we have a winner.