Great Nicknames
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On the other thread we talked about the nickname given to Scott Solomon of "Bloodbath" which is a great nickname.
Give some of your other favorite player nicknames.
A few in similar vein that imply toughness in a player:
Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds...football
Phil Garner "Scrap Iron" ...baseball
Jack Tatum "The Assassin"...football
Lenny Dykstra "Nails"...baseball
Hammerin' Hank Aaron...baseball
Dick "Night Train" Lane....football
Bonecrusher Smith...boxer
Iron Mike Ditka
One guy didn't need a nickname: Butkus
Give others
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How about Randy Johnson, who had 2 nicknames.....went from Wild Thing to the Big Unit....
Ironically, both are nicknames given to me by the wifey....
How about Randy Johnson, who had 2 nicknames.....went from Wild Thing to the Big Unit....
Ironically, both are nicknames given to me by the wifey....
I thought it was Mitch Williams who they called Wild Thing (though...probably a dozen players got that after Major League and Ricky Vaughn came out)
FYI....Charlie Sheen actually throw a baseball at approaching 90 mph.
OK, he apparently was able to get up to about 85 mph....but like many others of that era when the movie came out.....he juiced up:
http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/Charlie-Sheen-Juiced-Major-League-33163.html
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Dwight "Mad Dog" White...
The Steelers had a "dog" before the Browns lol!
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Roberto Duran "manus de peadras" hands of stone (boxing)
Elbert "Icky" Woods
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (boxing)
Daryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins (nba)
Skip "Water Pistol Pete" Bayless (bckup hs pg)
Tony "TNT" Tubbs (boxing)
Al "the mad Hungarian" Hrabowski. ? (MLB reliever)
Dwight "Jelly" Jones (ncaa bask)
"Touch Down" Tommy Vardel
Pete Rose "Charlie HUSTLE" (mlb)
Hector "Macho" Camacho (boxing)
Nate "the skate"!Archibald (nba)
"Dr.J" Julius Erving (nba)
I.M Hipp (ncaa football)
Jarvis Redwine ( ncaa football) real name
Johnnie "Idiot Face". (backup nfl qb)
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"Deacon" Jones...his real name was David. A lot of people don't know that.
"Mean" Joe Greene.
Ron Cey of the Dodgers was nicknamed "The Penguin" because of his slow waddling gait.
Rodger "The Dodger" Staubach
John "Frenchy" Fuqua
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson
"Fast Willie" Parker
Jerome "The Bus" Bettis
Rodger "Rocket" Clemons
Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
James "Silverback" Harrison
Ozzie "The Wizard of Oz" Newsome
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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....
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Andre "Bad Moon" Rison
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Stuart said:
Dwight "Mad Dog" White...
The Steelers had a "dog" before the Browns lol!
But our Mad Dog was in a Meat Market.
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Browns nicknames:
Automatic Otto Graham
Johnny Football
The Rabbit....Travis Benjamin
The Oracle. The Schwartz. Mitchell Schwartz
The Crow....Isaiah Crowell
The Hawk...Andre Hawkins
Flash Gordon....Josh Gordon
The Sausage King.....John Hughes (I made that one up)
T-Bone Tony Jones
Dante "Glue Fingers" Lavelli
"Hair Jordan" Cameron (because of his flowing locks)
Joe Turkey Jones.
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Stuart said:
Dwight "Mad Dog" White...
The Steelers had a "dog" before the Browns lol!
But our Mad Dog was in a Meat Market.
But our Mad Dog was in a Meat Market.
We also had a "Gleam"
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Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch
Broadway Joe Namath
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Some other NFL favorites of mine:
The Amish Rifle...Ryan Fitzpatrick
Bambi....Lance Alworth
Bullet Bob Hayes
Concrete Charlie...Chuck Bednarik
The Diesel.....John Riggins (later used by Shaq)
Fatso....Art Donovan
The Ghost (to the Post) Dave Caspar
Ironhead Heyward
The Kansas Comet....Gale Sayers
The Mad Stork....Ted Hendricks
The Nigerian Nightmare...Christian Okoye
Snake...Ken Stabler
Well Dressed...Amani Toomer
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Browns nicknames:
Automatic Otto Graham
Johnny Football
The Rabbit....Travis Benjamin
The Oracle. The Schwartz. Mitchell Schwartz
The Crow....Isaiah Crowell
The Hawk...Andre Hawkins
Flash Gordon....Josh Gordon
The Sausage King.....John Hughes (I made that one up)
T-Bone Tony Jones
Dante "Glue Fingers" Lavelli
"Hair Jordan" Cameron (because of his flowing locks)
Joe Turkey Jones.
Browns nicknames:
Automatic Otto Graham
Johnny Football
The Rabbit....Travis Benjamin
The Oracle. The Schwartz. Mitchell Schwartz
The Crow....Isaiah Crowell
The Hawk...Andre Hawkins
Flash Gordon....Josh Gordon
The Sausage King.....John Hughes (I made that one up)
T-Bone Tony Jones
Dante "Glue Fingers" Lavelli
"Hair Jordan" Cameron (because of his flowing locks)
Joe Turkey Jones.
Webstar......Michael Dean of Defense Perry....the Ice Cube......
Pierre Desir was the assassin in college////
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Browns nicknames:
Automatic Otto Graham
Johnny Football
The Rabbit....Travis Benjamin
The Oracle. The Schwartz. Mitchell Schwartz
The Crow....Isaiah Crowell
The Hawk...Andre Hawkins
Flash Gordon....Josh Gordon
The Sausage King.....John Hughes (I made that one up)
T-Bone Tony Jones
Dante "Glue Fingers" Lavelli
"Hair Jordan" Cameron (because of his flowing locks)
Joe Turkey Jones.
Webstar......Michael Dean of Defense Perry....the Ice Cube......
Pierre Desir was the assassin in college////
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