Sports Nicknames

[HOMEYCAT]

Okay, here's the deal. We start a thread and see how many nicknames of Sports heros we can come up with. College or pro. Any Sport.

Start with....Teddy Ballgame (Ted Williams)

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Charlie Hustle....Pete Rose

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Cork-head (Johnny Bench)

A little known nick-name bestowed on Bench by Rose during Bench's rookie season. Rose told him his head was so big it looked as if it had popped from a champagne bottle.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson - WR for the ol' Houston Oilers.

[Will Lavender]

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson

[delkfor3]

"Iron" Mike Tyson.:P

[surveyor]

Doctor J - Julius Erving

[delkfor3]

Michael "Air" Jordan

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"Iron Head" Craig Heyward--Atlanta Falcons

[Terry L. Wildcat]

:cool:Bob Thuggins

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Florida State "criminoles"

Roger "rocket" clemens

"oil can" Boyd

[delkfor3]

Terry L. Wildcat wrote: :cool:Bob Thuggins
:ggrin:

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Minnesota Fats

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The Georgia Peach.........Ty Cobb

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Mark "The Bird" Fidrych

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Dizzy Dean

[Will Lavender]

Shaquille "The Big Aristotle" O'Neal
Shaq Diesel
Shaq-Fu
Shaq

[BrassowFan]

Cheeseheads!

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"Sweetness" Walter Payton

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Joe "The Yankee Clipper" DiMaggio

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Charles "the round mound of rebound" Barkley

George "iceman" Gervin

"Playmaker" Michael Irvin

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Mordacai "Three Finger" Brown

[Will Lavender]

Orlando "Tubby" Smith :dude:

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Waite "Schoolboy" Hoyte

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The Man in the Brown Suit

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cotton

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"Refrigerator" Perry

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Rupps Runts

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White Chocolate - Jason Williams

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Mean Joe Green

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Ed "Too Tall" Jones

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"King Richard" Petty

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Never Nervous Pervis

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Goose Givens

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Clyde "the Glide" Drexler

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big klu!

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the black sox

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Artis "A-Train" Gilmore

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The old Lefthander

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Wilt the Stilt

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"Macho Man" Randy Savage

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HOMEYCAT wrote: Wilt the Stilt
it took 20,000 women to do that eh?:D

[TRexSmarts]

Joe "Mean" Greene - Pittsburgh Steelers

TRexSmarts

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The Big O

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"PREACHER" Rowe

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pee wee Reese

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The "Say Hey" kid

[trublu]

"The Steel Curtain"----Pittsburgh Steeler defense

[ukfanman]

Several from the NFL of days past.

Dick "Night Train" Lane

"Dandy" Don Meredith and Howard "Motormouth" Cosell

Earl "The Pearl" Campbell and Bum Phillips

Kenny "The Snake" Stabler

"Broadway" Joe Namath

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Lenny "NAILS" Dykstra

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Harvey"the Kitten" Haddix and "Stan the Man"

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Willy "Papa" Stargell and Willie "Big Swish" McCovey

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Hammerin' Hank and (unofficially) Danny "Stone Hands" Driessen

[cumberlandredskin]

Doggy or The Big Dog was Tony Perez's nickname.

Wayne "Tree" Rollins

Earl "The Pearl" Monroe

Another for Ted Williams was "The Splendid Splinter"

[trublu]

Dale Earnhardt-"the Intimidator"

Oh yeah, and if Bobby Thugginsis here, I have to say "K-Mart"-one of my most unfavorite thugs.

[surveyor]

Yaz

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Darn, I'm slow today............."The Baron" Coach Rupp

[cumberlandredskin]

"The Juice" O J Simpson and his offensive line was "The Electric Company".

Doomsday Defense was the Cowboy defense of the 70's.

Purple People Eaters was the Viking defense of the 70's.

Steel Curtain of course was the Steeler defense of the 70's. Man, I'm dating myself with all of these 70's nicknames.:D

Fearsome Foursome the defensive line of the Rams in late 60's and early 70's.

Orange Crush was the Bronco defense of the late 70's and early 80's.

The Chicago Bears were known as the Monsters of the Midway in the 60's.

I probably think of many more as the day wears on.Fun topic.

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Too Tall Jones

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The Bronx Bombers ........Murderer's Row

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Well, for cryin' out loud! the fabulous five

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Enos "Country" Slaughter

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The Broad Street Bullies!.........Philadelphia Flyers

[Will Lavender]

From college basketball:

Bryant "Big Country" Reeves
World B. Free
God Shamgod - not a nickname but it should've been

And:

Dan "The Man" Majerle
Robert "Big Shot" Horry
Shaq Daddy - forgot that one above
Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuawan
Spud Webb
Dominique "The Human Highlight Reel" Wilkens

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Uhhhh.....the big red machine

[trublu]

"Pistol" Pete Maravich

"Phi Slamma Jamma"

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dem bums

[Will Lavender]

Donnie Ballgame
Chris "Spuds" Sabo
Gary "The Glove" Payton
Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson
Deion "Primetime" Sanders
William "Refrigerator" Perry

[surveyor]

The Bronx Bombers

The Penguin - Ron Cey

Martina "Macho Man" Navratilova (Okay, I made that one up.)

Randall "Tex" Cobb

Murderer's Row (New York Yankee lineup circa 1927, Ruth, Gehrig, Earle Combs, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri.

[BrassowFan]

surveyor wrote: Martina "Macho Man" Navratilova (Okay, I made that one up.)

:shock: That's hilarious!

[cumberlandredskin]

Lee May was "The Big Bopper"

Cesar Geronimo was "The Chief"

George Foster was "Yachtzee"

Randy White of the Cowboys was known as the "Manster" Half man,half monster.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Dwight "The Blur" Anderson

Clay Carroll was "The Hawk"

Melvin Turpin was "The Big Dipper"

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BrassowFan wrote: surveyor wrote: Martina "Macho Man" Navratilova (Okay, I made that one up.)

:shock: That's hilarious!

at 48yrs she is in the semifinals of the womens doubles of the 2005 US Open.

She looks like a granny, but the old dyke can still play.

[Mountain Cat]

The Horse - Dan Issel

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"Monster" Mash-Jamal Masburn

[trublu]

OK, I can't spell-it's Mashburn

Tony "Peanuthead" Harris-UT Vols..............OK I made that one up but I like it.:ggrin:

[ukfanman]

Lest we forget

Fiddlin Five

Rupps Runts,

Unforgetables

Charles "Cotton" Nash

[surveyor]

Yaz's playin' mate - the original and only true Pudge .........

Carlton Fisk!

[HC]

Dick "Night-train" Lane

[Terry L. Wildcat]

HOMEYCAT wrote: Wilt the Stilt
aka...The Big Dipper

[capitolkatnorm]

"Stormin"- Norman ---- Cash



I've got the licence plate--"Stormin"

[surveyor]

Nate "Tiny" Archibald

[ukfanman]

Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks

Daryl "The Mad Bomber" Lamonica

Andre "Bad Moon A" Rison

[TRexSmarts]

"American's Team" - Dallas Cowboys

TRexSmarts

[delkfor3]

Here's a few not so flattering nicknames for RicK Pitino.

The Coach Formerly Employed By UK

"Tricky Ricky"

"Traitor RicK"

"Mother.............nope,I better not post that one.:ggrin::>:lol::P:dude:;)

[CurlyCat]

How can we forget these? Foreverrememberedfor UK infamy:

Richard "Master Blaster" Madison

Steve "Cigar Man" Massiello (different context of course)

Shawn "Sticky Fingers" Kemp

And some with more positive notariety:

Derek Anderson "Smooth"

Jay Shidler "The Blonde Bomber"

Erik Daniels, simply "E.D"

[delkfor3]

CurlyCat wrote:

And some with more positive notariety:

Derek Anderson "Smooth"

Jay Shidler "The Blonde Bomber"

Erik Daniels, simply "E.D"







Let's not forget Kenny "Sky"Walker

"Monster Mash" Jamal Mashburn

:)

[bleedbluelady]

"Bullit" Bob Turley

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Rich "Goose" Gossage

Jimmie "The Beast" Foxx

Jack "Golden Bear" Nicklaus

Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabowski

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Bronco NaGursky

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The Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech........

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cool papa Bell

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the galloping ghost .......red grange

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The Golden Bear

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The Duke .....Duke Snyder

and of course, The Mick!

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Egad! From the early Mets.....

Marvelous Marv Throneberry !

[NotFrank]

Jack "Goose" Givens

Eldrick "Tiger" Woods

Lefty Mickelson

"Hallmark" Shawn Kemp, because every day is Father's Day in his house.

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scooter Holy Cow

[bigjeep]

Clem "The Gym" Haskins

"Big Mac" Jim McDanials

"He Hate Me" Rod Smart

"Mr Diddle" EA Diddle

[largebluej]

Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

Jack Dempsey, "The Manassas Mauler"

Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran

Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch

Arnold "Red" Auerbach

Red Grange, "The Galloping Ghost" (come to think of it, Red must have been a nickname, too.)

Reggie Jackson, "Mr. October"

Ric "Nature Boy" Flair (if you don't like wrestling, well, too bad. Flair is classic)

Tim "Deuce" Couch

[hoosierhateruklover]

Illinois.....Land of Stincoln

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Leo "the Lip" Durocher

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Whitey Herzog- The white rat

Greg Norman- The shark

Ozzie Smith- the wizard

Bernard "innocent until proven" Gilkey ( i think Berman came up with that one)

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Well done! We broke the Century

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Okay, How about Dick the Bruiser, The Sheik, and Gorgeous George....old time wrestlers. Oh! and Bo Bo Brazil....

[Mountain Cat]

I think it was the Iron Sheik?

[Mountain Cat]

Mountain Cat wrote: I think it was the Iron Sheik?


He used to occasionally work out at a gym near the corner of SHelbyville Rd and Hurstborne Lane.

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Majic Johnson

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler

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Jerry "The King" Lawler

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Andre "The Giant"

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"The Greatest" - Muhammad Ali

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Sugar Shane Mosely

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Leonard

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The Austian Oak - Arnold Schwazzenegger

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Doc Rivers

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Smokin Joe Frazier

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Jimmy the Greek

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Golden Boy - Oscar De Lahoya

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"Rocky" Marciano

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Hefty Lefty

JLoad

Round Mound of Touchdown

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Kenny "The Jet" Smith

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"Home Run" Baker

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Sir Charles Barkley

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Hitman - Thomas Hearns

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Hector "Macho" Camacho

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Arnie's Army

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The Answer - Iverson

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Tree Rollins

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Mountain Cat wrote: Mountain Cat wrote: I think it was the Iron Sheik?


He used to occasionally work out at a gym near the corner of SHelbyville Rd and Hurstborne Lane.
Ubla EEEuuh!!!!

[Mountain Cat]

Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins

[ukfanman]

The Notre Dame running backs "The Four Horsemen"

Army's "Mr Inside and Mr Outside"

"Slinging" Sammy Baugh

Ty "The Georgia Peach" Cobb

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Dean the "Dream" Meminger

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Cadilac Collinsworth

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Iceman - George Gervin

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LOU 'The Toe' Groza

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Fuzzy Zoeller

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Awesome Bill from Dawsonville - Bill Elliot

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big daddy LIPSCOMB.....

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Robert "Tractor" Traylor

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Big Daddy Don Garlet (drag racer)

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The Mailman......

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Rocket Ismael

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The Gashouse Gang....Depression era Cardinals

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Gentleman Jim

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Wah Wah Jones

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Fox DeMoise

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"Let's Play Two"....Ernie Banks

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Big Hurt - Frank Thomas

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Moose Skoweren

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Carl "The Truth" Williams

truth is Tyson knocked him out

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Mugsy Boges

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Nick "The Quick" Van Excel

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Whew!

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Spider Sabich (downhill racer)

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HOMEYCAT wrote: Whew!
nice run there el quickmiester

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Who was the excellent tall guard for the early 70's Knicks....does cpmmercials with Kieth Hernandez? ahhhhhhh. Walt Frazier....no nickname there.....

[Terry L. Wildcat]

:cool:The man with the green tongue...George "The Animal" Steele

For Big Red Machine fans: "Doggy"...Tony Perez

For Kentucky Football fans: "The Corbin Comet"...Rodger Bird

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"BIG RED"--Secretariat, the most beautiful horse that I ever had the pleasure to look upon.

[CurlyCat]

bigjeep wrote: Clem "The Gym" Haskins




Sorry to correct a Bowling Green fellow about a WKU player, but I am pretty certain they called him Clem "The Gem".

Isn't that right?

[CurlyCat]

delkfor3 wrote: CurlyCat wrote:

And some with more positive notariety:

Derek Anderson "Smooth"

Jay Shidler "The Blonde Bomber"

Erik Daniels, simply "E.D"







Let's not forget Kenny "Sky"Walker

"Monster Mash" Jamal Mashburn

:)

I didn't foget those, someone had just beaten me to postingthem. ;)

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ShagariAlleyene "Mean Blocking Machine"

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wow! nice work folks. And only a few repeaters.......

[cumberlandredskin]

HOMEYCAT wrote: Who was the excellent tall guard for the early 70's Knicks....does cpmmercials with Kieth Hernandez? ahhhhhhh. Walt Frazier....no nickname there.....Oh yes, Frazier had a nickname. It was Clyde. I have no idea how he got it.

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Terry L. Wildcat wrote: :cool:The man with the green tongue...George "The Animal" Steele

For Big Red Machine fans: "Doggy"...Tony Perez

For Kentucky Football fans: "The Corbin Comet"...Rodger Bird

I beat you to Tony Perez. Yours doesn't count.;)

Adam Dunn The Big Donkey

Austin Kearns Ears

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cumberlandredskin wrote: HOMEYCAT wrote: Who was the excellent tall guard for the early 70's Knicks....does cpmmercials with Kieth Hernandez? ahhhhhhh. Walt Frazier....no nickname there.....Oh yes, Frazier had a nickname. It was Clyde. I have no idea how he got it.Oh! You are right....and that's exactly what I was mulling! And I kept thinking, no....Clyde the Glide was Drexler! But, I was confusing the name.....I never knew why they called him Clyde...does anyone know?

[Mountain Cat]

The Lady Killer - OJ Simpson........:Djust kidding

[cumberlandredskin]

Here's a couple old ones:

Frankie Frisch was known as The Fordham Flash.

John McGraw was known as The Little General.

Sean Casey is known as The Mayor.

Unfortunately Eric Milton is also known as Homer Milton.

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Mountain Cat wrote: The Lady Killer - OJ Simpson........:Djust kiddingNow, I'm gonna have to get serious about your dictionary task....UR....

[Mountain Cat]

HOMEYCAT wrote: Mountain Cat wrote: The Lady Killer - OJ Simpson........:Djust kiddingNow, I'm gonna have to get serious about your dictionary task....UR....
Doth thou think me cantankerous?

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Mt. Eaton

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We forgot HOGS....the Redskins of days gone by.

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Mountain Cat wrote: HOMEYCAT wrote: Mountain Cat wrote: The Lady Killer - OJ Simpson........:Djust kiddingNow, I'm gonna have to get serious about your dictionary task....UR....
Doth thou think me cantankerous?
The thpelling on that would be cantankerouth

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:D

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Buckshot Jones - Nascar

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"wee" Willie Keeler

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Hulk Hogan

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I think Dom Dimaggio was known as the "Perfessor"

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Baby Magic - Leroy Byrd

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"Larry Legend" Bird

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Nuxxy

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Scooter McRay

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Dr. Dunkinstien - Darrell Griffin

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Legs o' Glass..............Sam Bowie

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You sat down a note pad last night, don't lie..... Wait! MountainCat, not you.

[Mountain Cat]

Baby Jordan - Harold Minor

[Mountain Cat]

HOMEYCAT wrote: You sat down a note pad last night, don't lie..... Wait! MountainCat, not you.


Honestly it was all off of the top of my head....:D

[Mountain Cat]

"Irish" Micky Ward

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"Babe" Parelli

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The Rifleman - Chuck Persons

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"creepy" Crespi 50's Dodgers

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Chipper Jones

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The "Bucs" or "Bucos" Pittburgh Pirates

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"Doctor Big" Bill Miller Wrestler

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James "Lights Out" Toney

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Hacksaw Jim Duggins

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Bonecrusher Smith - Boxer

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"Chico" Cardenas

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Tito - Felix Trinidad

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Chi Chi Rodregez

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The Schnozzz!Ernie Lombardi....

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Iron Mike Ditka

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Lefty - Phil Michaelson

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Mountain"ad infinatum" Cat and Homey"ad nauseum" Cat

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Lefty made it already. Is that a harmonica your playing in your Pic?

[Mountain Cat]

HOMEYCAT wrote: Lefty made it already. Is that a harmonica your playing in your Pic?
huh?

[HOMEYCAT]

In the Picture under your MC Logo to the side....mine's the lion?

[Mountain Cat]

No that's a pic of some 50's vintage Dirt Cars Racing........

look up optometrist....:D

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Oh, I see it now....Look, it's an old fart drivn' a DeSoto!

[Mountain Cat]

Peewee Day - dirt car driver from Milton KY from the 70s

drove a 57 chevy #32 if anyone ever saw him. He must have weighed 350lbs too.

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"Butterball" Johnson Unbeatable on a quarter mile dirt track, circa late 60's early 70's

[cumberlandredskin]

Ron Guidry former Yankee pitcher Louisiana Lightening

Mark "The Bird" Fidrych

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson

[beachedkat]

How could we ever forget Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell.

I think Walt "Clyde" Frazier got his nickname from his 1930's style dress. All those pinstripes and wide-brim hats made him look like Clyde Barrow as portrayed by Warren Beatty in "Bonnie and Clyde."

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beachedkat wrote: How could we ever forget Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell.

I think Walt "Clyde" Frazier got his nickname from his 1930's style dress. All those pinstripes and wide-brim hats made him look like Clyde Barrow as portrayed by Warren Beatty in "Bonnie and Clyde."
Thanks, makes sense to me. They may have called Dennis Rodman, Bonnie.........

[Mountain Cat]

Buster Douglas

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Evil Kneivel

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Mookie Blaylock

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Andre "The Hawk?" Dawson?

[beachedkat]

Frazier abused a lot of NBA guards and probably made them feel like Bonnie.

I also forgot Dick "Cement Mixer" Cunningham of Murray State/Milwaukee Bucks fame. But I think at MSU we called him "Lurch." He wasn't exactly a twinkle toes. Or that might have been Len Mahoney, who also was not exactly a picture of grace on the court. One ages, the mind goes . . . .:?

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Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson

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Bubbah Smith

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Cadilac Anderson

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Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini

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Deacon Jones

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Arturo "Thunder" Gatti

[ukfanman]

Glen "Fireball" Roberts. Sadly that's they way he went out, his car caught fire and he died shortly afterwards,

[Mountain Cat]

"Little E" - Dale Jr.

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"Little Al" - Al Unser Jr.

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"Penny" Hardaway

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Plastic Man - Stacy Augman

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"King Rex" Chapman

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AB "Happy" Chandler - Baseball Commissioner

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Mig Mac - Mark McGuire

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Jellybean Bryant

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"Red" Kerr

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The Rock

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Ricky "Hitman" Hatton

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Jumbo Elliot

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MountainCat is a phenom! And, I don't know if he's done. It is clearly time to fashion a Trophy!

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Uh OH ....here's one Joltin' Joe Dimaggio

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The "BOO BIRDS" !

[samsdad]

The Louisville Lip--Cassius

Daffy Dean

Daffy Vance

Charles "Chilly" Ishmael--UK Basketballer from the '60s or early '70s

Bob "The General" Knight

What was Adrian Smith's nickname? Was it Opie?

Boomer Esiason

[HOMEYCAT]

Those were hard to come up with. We've had over 250 nicknames. Dizzy we had.

When I was a kid, there seemingly was a commie under every clothes hamper. They called it the "Red" scare. The Reds, not desiring the association, became "The Redlegs" I call them that to this day.