Great Nicknames

[Browns149]

Dale Earnhardt "The Intimidator"

That has got to be in the top 5 all-time

[gumby73]

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Deion "PrimeTime" Sanders for you FSU Fans (sorry for "Famous" Jameis Winston tough)

[The Gipper]

Indians nicknames:

Tris Speaker....the Grey Eagle

Chris Sabo....Spuds

Jose Mesa.....Joe Table

Corey Kluber....Klubot

Von "Five for One" Hayes

Ken "Hawk" Harrelson

Travis Hafner: Pronk

Jim "Mudcat" Grant

Tito Francona I and Terry "Tito" Francona II

Roy Fosse: Mule

Sudden Sam McDowell

Dennis Martinez: El Presidente

Ding Dong Gary Bell

The Immortal Joe Azcue

Ben Francisco Treat

Andre "Thunder" Thornton

[StinkHole]

@the-gipper said:

Johnny Football

LOl... Manziel has earned many more nicknames than that!

Joe "The Brown Bomber" Louis

Ernie "Arrowhead" Holmes...the shooter of police helicopters.

Wasn't there a "bullethead" on the Browns. His last name was Johnson, first name escapes me. Linebacker.

[D Bone]

Earnest The Fumble Byner

Too soon?

[PoeticG]

Barkevious Mingo's nickname Kiki

[Westside Steve]

Abdullah the Butcher, George Man mountain cannon, haystacks Calhoun, Ernie the cat Ladd, killer Brooks,

[flyingfooldoug]

Pistol Pete Marovich was pretty cool too.

[gumby73]

Vinnie "microwave" Johnson. (please no more Johnson's microwaved)

[Tony_Shalub]

Spare Tire Dixon - Bubba Smith, Married With Children, All Nite Security Dude, "He used to wear a spare tire around his neck"

[StinkHole]

Stuart said:

LOl... Manziel has earned many more nicknames than that!

Joe "The Brown Bomber" Louis

Ernie "Arrowhead" Holmes...the shooter of police helicopters.

Wasn't there a "bullethead" on the Browns. His last name was Johnson, first name escapes me. Linebacker.

He was hard to find, but I found him on YouTube. Eddie "Bullethead" Johnson.

I've know him to be called "bullethead" but evidently he was known as the "assissin" as well.

[Canton Mike]

Walter "the flea" Roberts

[hoorta]

@the-gipper said:

Browns nicknames:

The Rabbit....Travis Benjamin

That one was already in use- Ray "the Rabbit" Renfro.

[TexasAg1969]

Jesus - a.k.a. Earl the Pearl Monroe

Stan the Man Musial

Pistol Pete Maravich

"Air" Jordan

[Furious Styles]

@texasag1969 said:

Jesus - a.k.a. Earl the Pearl Monroe

Stan the Man Musial

Pistol Pete Maravich

"Air" Jordan

Jesus ? I dont think so. Earl Monroe's nickname was "the Pearl" as you posted the name.

[ballpeen]

Wee Willie Keeler...baseball.

I think they were talking about his height.

[Mudfly]

@furious-styles said:

Jesus ? I dont think so. Earl Monroe's nickname was "the Pearl" as you posted the name.

Yep, it's true....they called him Jesus, Black Jesus AND Earl the Pearl.....a veritable plethora of nicknames

[calfoxwc]

It occured to me, that there is a famous one missing. Oddly enough, it's a running back, the same

size as Duke Johnson.

The same name. How is that for cool?

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Johnson_(American_football)

[Mudfly]

@calfoxwc said:

It occured to me, that there is a famous one missing. Oddly enough, it's a running back, the same

size as Duke Johnson.

The same name. How is that for cool?

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Johnson_(American_football)

Not to burst your bubble, but already got him......gotta say i always liked that nickname.....back in the day, those white shoes looked fasssssssssst!!!!

@mudfly said:

Clyde The Glide Drexler.....Billy White Shoes Johnson.....The Refridgerator....Turkey Jones......Big Daddy Carl Hairston....Karl The Mailman Malone....Neon Deon....

lots of boxers like ....Boom Boom Mancini...Tommy Hitman Hearns...money maker....sugar ray....

[The Gipper]

@ballpeen said:

Wee Willie Keeler...baseball.

I think they were talking about his height.

You mean Dick Trickle? Oh, wait....that was not a nickname.

Neither was former Browns/Steelers QB Dick Shiner.