Three best sports names ever?

[Tuco]

3. Prince Wimbley. WR for Penn St(?) in mid 90's.

2. World B. Free. Cavs guard from 90's.

1. Carlester Crumpler. TE for various NFL teams.

Tuco.

[youtalkfunny]

I'm going with the first three that popped into my head:

1. Yogi Berra
2. Fulgencio Obelmajias (once fought Marvin Hagler)
3. Antwon Randel El (current WR for Steelers)

[mikeyvegas]

I remember a linebacker for Notre Dame named

Michael Stonebreaker


I also liked Nascar driver

Dick Trickle


And lastly my favorite cereal and Cleveland Indian

Coco Crisp (although that ones a nickname)

[Losing all]

1) Razor Shines. cup of coffee with the Expos, don't know if he ever got any real playing time.

2) Willie T Ribs, c'mon, thats awesome

3) Tie- Toe Nash/Milton Bradley, both very troubled men, but cool names.

[Koller]

Miroslav Satan. Buffalo Sabres.

[mikech]

I can't believe it took until the 6th post before we see the name of Dick Butkus.

[rgreenm90]

How about God Shamgod, former Georgetown basketball player? Or Royal Ivey, another good one. And Ruben Boumtje Boumtje

[Edge34]

Obafemi Ayanbadejo (NFL Fullback, playing for the Cardinals now)

Chris Fuamatu Ma'afala - former Steelers RB, now with Jacksonville

[Dynasty]

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I can't believe it took until the 6th post before we see the name of Dick Butkus.

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And still no Rusty Kuntz.

[mmbt0ne]

Stubby Clapp
Priest Lauderdale (awesome draft pick btw Hawks)
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala

EDIT: Didn't see Edge's post. Dammit.

[MarkL444]

Ben Gay

[ThaSaltCracka]

Dick Trickler

Mack Strong

Pymp Schlap

[MarkL444]

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Pymp Schlap

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Im not familiar with Pymp Schlap, who is he?

[Sponger15SB]

Hercules Rockefeller

Rembrandt Q. Einstein

Handsome B. Wonderful

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Pymp Schlap

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Im not familiar with Pymp Schlap, who is he?

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aside from being your mommas boyfriend.... he is fake.

[Wingnut]

Gianluca Paliuca

[mistrpug]

Jurgen Klinsmann!

[Victor]

Ron Tugnutt

Goalie in the NHL for various teams including the Rangers.

[Homer]

Dick Trickle, hands down. I used to love it when on Sportscenter they did race highlights. They would always say "so and so came in first, so and so was runner up and Dick Trickle finished 34th."

[mistrpug]

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Dick Trickler, hands down. I used to love it when on Sportscenter they did race highlights. They would always say "so and so came in first, so and so was runner up and Dick Trickler finished 34th."

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Dick Trickle is a great name, but we're looking for sports names. Driving a car in a circle isn't a sport.

[Homer]

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Dick Trickler, hands down. I used to love it when on Sportscenter they did race highlights. They would always say "so and so came in first, so and so was runner up and Dick Trickler finished 34th."

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Dick Trickle is a great name, but we're looking for sports names. Driving a car in a circle isn't a sport.

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It's an oval, not a circle. Bet you feel pretty dumb right about now.

[mistrpug]

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Dick Trickler, hands down. I used to love it when on Sportscenter they did race highlights. They would always say "so and so came in first, so and so was runner up and Dick Trickler finished 34th."

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Dick Trickle is a great name, but we're looking for sports names. Driving a car in a circle isn't a sport.

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It's an oval, not a circle. Bet you feel pretty dumb right about now.

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Blah! Ovals are circular. Close enough. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[BeerMoney]

Isn't there a Dick Pound?

[M2d]

Samoa Samoa (QB for, I think, WSU)
Thor Salanoa
Chris Fuamatu-Maafala (I know it's a repeat, but I gotta give it up for a homeboy).

[Homer]

Dick Pole - Pitching Coach

[kerssens]

You forgot the obvious....Abraham Lowjob

[ThaSaltCracka]

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You forgot the obvious....Abraham Lowjob

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shhhhhh..... thats my alias.

[TheRake]

does Ickey Woods make the list?

I can't think of 3

[mmbt0ne]

Sonofabitch, how did I forget my own DB:

I-Perfection Harris

[Tyler Durden]

FSU has a WR named Craphonzo Thorpe. Fun name to say.

C'mon, the first four letters of his name spell crap.

[Phat Mack]

Sonny Sixkiller

Death To Flying Things Ferguson

Kid Gavilan and Beau Jack were two 50's welterweights with cool names.

[Boris]

Andy Fox

[WEASEL45]

Mamadou N'diaye
Zarko Cabarkapa both basketball players

[kerssens]

Steve Trout....btw, he also had the best baseball card in '83 Fleer

[VBM]

1. Rock Cartwright (HB, Redskins)
2. Milton Bradley (OF, Dodgers)
3. Phuc Ngo (OK, he wasn't an athlete, but he was in my 8th grade gym class and it was just fun to say his name)

[M2d]

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3. Phuc Ngo (OK, he wasn't an athlete, but he was in my 8th grade gym class and it was just fun to say his name)

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if we're gonna go there...there was a girl in my friend's HS class named Chi Por

[kerssens]

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3. Phuc Ngo (OK, he wasn't an athlete, but he was in my 8th grade gym class and it was just fun to say his name)

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And then there's the Thai place by Key Arena called Phuc'Et
And the Pho' King

[Aces McGee]

This topic deserves a lot more thought than I can give it right now, but I have one major thought:

Name changes shouldn't count. World B. Free was formerly Lloyd Free.

Similarly, God Shammgod was Shammgod Wells when he played in HS. He didn't switch to the Islamic designation until he arrived at Providence College. So Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) and Tarik Abdul Wahad (Olivier St. Jean) shouldn't count, either.

(On another note, we should keep in mind that foreign and/or Islamic names may sound unusual and fun to us, but really aren't all that interesting when you take into account how common they are in other places).

-McGee

[kerssens]

and my personal favorite "What the Pho?"

[Koller]

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Ron Tugnutt

Goalie in the NHL for various teams including the Rangers.

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Rangers?

http://www.nhl.com/lineups/player/8451837.html

[ericd]

Pirates staff circa 1970 had Veale, Lamb and Moose

Penn State DT years ago named Steve Smear

[Oski]

Tiger Shulman - Karate

[ThaSaltCracka]

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3. Phuc Ngo (OK, he wasn't an athlete, but he was in my 8th grade gym class and it was just fun to say his name)

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And then there's the Thai place by Key Arena called Phuc'Et
And the Pho' King

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Its Kalled Phuk Et

You forgot about "What the Pho?", a real restaurant in Bellevue.

[jakethebake]

nm

[jakethebake]

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[razor]

yep - he's the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

[PhatTBoll]

Misty Hyman

She was an American olympic swimmer a few years back.

[Homer]

Coco Crisp

Oh, and have I mentioned Dick Pole? For Christ's sake, his name is Dick Pole!

[TheRake]

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For Christ's sake, his name is Dick Pole!

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I had a teacher in high school by the name of Dick Slicker

True story

TheRake

[NoPeak]

Jim Bob Cooter, QB for UT Vols

[mikech]

Former Congressman from New Hampshire: Dick Swett

[Tuco]

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Jim Bob Cooter, QB for UT Vols

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We have a new leader in the clubhouse...

Tuco.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

PARKER BONE III
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[andyfox]

. . . I vote for Van Lingle Mungo with honorary mention to Coco Crisp, Y.A. Tittle, and Primo Carnera.

[Toro]

Former Celtics assistant coach Dick Harder.

[VBM]

ok, Phuc Ngo is out, and I always thought Sterling Sharpe was a cool name...

[namknils]

This is easy, the three best sports names ever are:

1. Michael Jordan
2. Ernie Banks
3. Walter Payton

These names may not be funny, but they are definately the three best sports names.

[Duke]

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Dick Trickle is a great name, but we're looking for sports names. Driving a car in a circle isn't a sport.

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Please enlighten us. It's far more physically taxing than baseball, and requires more coordination than football. I assume that you think of baseball as a sport, so the homoerotic contact isn't a qualifier.

I assume that you have absolutely no idea how hard driving is. Driving at 90 for 22 hours on a road trip is not the same thing. At all.

If your goal was to win the "I can ignorantly trivialize anything" award, then nice work!

~D

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Be better if he played for Jersey /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Going deep into the history of Oklahoma football

Elvis Peacock

And if you want to include nicknames

Bombo Rivera (Expos OF circa 1974)

And the greatest baseball nickname of them all

Sal "The Barber" Maglie (yeah, I'll crowd the plate against him /images/graemlins/crazy.gif)

[Ray Zee]

lots of good ones:)

remember though our country is run by bush, dick , and colin.

[JTrout]

Muffin Spencer-Devlin (of the diver down tour)
Duffy Waldorf
Buzz Fly

[nothumb]

God Shamgod played for Providence. I was gonna use him too. What makes it better is that it's a Catholic school and he's got such a blasphemous name.

NT

[nothumb]

Yeah, but the colon is probably on the way out.

NT

[River2Pair]

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3. Phuc Ngo (OK, he wasn't an athlete, but he was in my 8th grade gym class and it was just fun to say his name)

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And then there's the Thai place by Key Arena called Phuc'Et
And the Pho' King

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Chinese joint by my house. . .The Poo Ping Palace

[Kopefire]

Not a pro athlete -- but in college we had a 2nd-stringer QB/WR/RB guy .. great hands, great mind, no speed, and not quite good enough at QB to be a starter, but he could come into game in a pinch at any of those positions .. his name .. Justin Case . . .

[Kevmath]

I.M. Hipp - Oklahoma RB
Scientific Mapp - College basketball player
Baskerville Holmes - Also CB player, was killed by a relative after this playing career fizzled.

Kevin...

[Tuco]

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I.M. Hipp - Oklahoma RB

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Damn! Ive actually heard of him before and forgot. Nice call.

My new revised top 3 (as World B. Free was DQ'd)

3. Carlester Crumpler
2. Jim Bob Cooter
1. I.M. Hipp

Tuco.

[DukeSucks]

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3. Carlester Crumpler
2. Jim Bob Cooter
1. I.M. Hipp


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Don't forget Carlester's brother Alge /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[ArchAngel71857]

Magnus von Magnussen (World's Strongest Man Winner)

I-Perfection Harris (DB for GA Tech)

He Hate Me


-AA

[Toro]

We have a winner: He Hate Me.

[Toro]

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We have a winner: He Hate Me.

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I may have been premature. The Patriots decimated by injuries in the defensive secondary went to STL to face their high powered offense and came up with these two up to now, totally unknown players at defensive back.

1. Randy Gay
2. Earthwind Moreland (yes his parents were big fans of the band Earth Wind and Fire).

[Aces McGee]

Unfortunately, his name is Dick Harter, which isn't nearly as funny.

-McGee

[Aces McGee]

Scientific Mapp -- good one! He had a brother, Majestic, who played for UVa.

There was also a basketball player for Maryland named Exree Hipp, and his first name was pronounced "X-ray." So if you listed his name last before first, you got "Hip X-ray," which always amused me.

-McGee

[2planka]

3. Randy Gay (Patriots)
2. Stubby Clapp
1. Dick Trickle

[Toro]

With a Boston "accent" it's pronounced Harda.

[Aces McGee]

ooh, excellent point.

a damn fine coach, too.

beat la,

-Mcgee

[scalf]

/images/graemlins/blush.gif /images/graemlins/club.gif.. without a doubt..

..Mordeci "three finger" brown..

preacher roe

muhammed fred

gl

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[tripdad]

Wonderful Terrific Monds III....Atlanta Braves

Kamala the Ugandan Giant
sport? no, but closer than "i had a high school teacher named....."

cheers!

[tripdad]

i also always dug the name Van Earl Wright, sportscaster on CNN back in the day.

"yeeeeepp.....ovah the left field waahl!"

cheers!

[tripdad]

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And still no Rusty Kuntz.

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this one is right up there...would be better if it were pronounced phonetically, though.

cheers!

[youtalkfunny]

Come on, you could've done better than Kamala:

--The Missing Link
--Mr Perfect
--Mr Wonderful
--Hunter Hearst Helmsley
--Chief Jay Strongbow
--Gorilla Monsoon
--Baron Miguel Zecluna
--The Unpredictable Johnny Rodz

I could do this all night! Put me down for "Mr Wonderful".

[tripdad]

[ QUOTE ]
Come on, you could've done better than Kamala:

--The Missing Link
--Mr Perfect
--Mr Wonderful
--Hunter Hearst Helmsley
--Chief Jay Strongbow
--Gorilla Monsoon
--Baron Miguel Zecluna
--The Unpredictable Johnny Rodz

I could do this all night! Put me down for "Mr Wonderful".

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Mr. Wonderful lacks creativity.

Gorilla Monsoon and Cheif Jay Strongbow are pretty good. Kamala is much better, though.

keep trying.

cheers!

[zephed56]

missing some hockey names here...

-Ogie Oglethorpe (from Slap Shot)
-Johnathan Cheechoo
-Jarkko Ruutu
-Jeff Beukeboom
-Darius Kasparaitis (sounds like a venereal disease)
-'Gump' Worsley

I'm sure there's a few more...

anybody know any good curling names?