Best Names in Sports

[humbucking fool]

Any suggestions? (if this has been done before, sorry, I did a search!)

I like Robin Big Snake of the Owen Sound Attack in the Ontario Hockey League.
You can't tell me you wouldn't want your name to be Big Snake.

As far as team names -- The Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League I think is pretty darn cool.

[MattSharpIsCool]

Any suggestions? (if this has been done before, sorry, I did a search!)

I like Robin Big Snake of the Owen Sound Attack in the Ontario Hockey League.
You can't tell me you wouldn't want your name to be Big Snake.

As far as team names -- The Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League I think is pretty darn cool.

Big Snake used to play for the Portland Winterhawks, my home team.

Miroslav Satan is always a good one when it comes to best names.

[Red Stripe]

Jorge Julio the closer on the Orioles, or was, thats a cool name

[humbucking fool]

Big Snake used to play for the Portland Winterhawks, my home team.

Miroslav Satan is always a good one when it comes to best names.


Too bad Satan doesn't play for new jersey :naughty:

[simplephotographinthesun]

coco crisp

[Red Stripe]

coco crisp
everyone's favorite breakfast cereal

[humbucking fool]

For a year or 2 the Indians had both Coco Crisp and Milton Bradley on their team

[Red Stripe]

whos that football player, his last name is Slaughter, oh man, i'd love to have that last name

but then there is in the NFL Little Jon Flowers

[humbucking fool]

Webster Slaughter was the guy

West Virginia had a running back or a DB i think last year named Pac-Man Jones

[MattSharpIsCool]

Tank Williams from the Tennesee Titans.

And I think its TJ Slaughter, or maybe there are two Slaughters.

[Red Stripe]

yeah i think its TJ

[Illmatic]

Urban Shocker.

Old pitcher back in the 20's.

[Red Stripe]

Chris Fatumata ma'afala

[humbucking fool]

We're both right on the Slaughter...I'd never heard of TJ. WEbster retired in 92 i think, he played for Cleveland and Houston. Thanks for the heads up!

[Kurtz]

Urban Shocker.

Old pitcher back in the 20's.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/shockur01.shtml

Haha.

[Rogue Six]

What portent was it for a race car driver to be nicknamed fireball? Glen "Fireball" Roberts died of third degree burns..

but D*ck Trickle has to be one of the funniest names in all of sports

[jaymz_is_god]

Efan Ekoku
Bastian Schweinstaeger
Jan Venegoor of Hesselink
Chike Okeafor

[IbanezGeorge]

Tim Hortons

[pikester]

Bigsnake also used to play for Vancouver.

It seems buddy gets around.

[Illmatic]

I forgot one other one:

God Shammgod, a point guard for Providence and then the Wizards in the NBA.

[simplephotographinthesun]

Marques Tuiasosopo

[MattSharpIsCool]

I forgot one other one:

God Shammgod, a point guard for Providence and then the Wizards in the NBA.

Is that really his name?

Who would name their son God....thats seems blasphemous or something.

[sting-ray]

Milton Bradley
Adriano
Killer Klasnic

[Reaganista]

He Hate Me.

[Orion7]

I've always liked God Shammgod too. He had a sister named Princess.

Other good ones:
Bo Outlaw
Ugeth Urbina
Sonny Sixkiller
Plaxico Burress
R.W. McQuarters
The TE for the Rams' - last name is Manumaleuna (mah-noo-mal-ay-ooh-nah)
And of course... Dick Butkus

[Ganondorf]

Nedved

[CombatRock]

Mark TEXiera...last name is kinda of cool cos he plays for the TEXas rangers

[Jetpelkey54]

Earthwind Moreland from the NE Pats

[KappaKid17]

Speedy Claxton

It just sounds great.

[Simple Man]

Tank Williams.

[ThePatient]

TJ Slaughter (for a LB, that is great)
Boog Powell
Obafemi Ayanbadjeyo (or something like that)
Randall Gay
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'Afala

[Reaganista]

Kgb

[Illmatic]

Mark TEXiera...last name is kinda of cool cos he plays for the TEXas rangers

1) It's spelled "Teixeira"
2) It's pronounced "TIE-zar-uh", I think,

[Simple Man]

:lol:

Wow.

[Illmatic]

What?

[Simple Man]

Mark TEXiera...last name is kinda of cool cos he plays for the TEXas rangers

I thought this was one of the stupidest/funniest things all year.

[ThePatient]

Its pronounced te-share-uh.

[Illmatic]

Its pronounced te-share-uh.

Eh, I was close.

[KappaKid17]

1) It's spelled "Teixeira"
2) It's pronounced "TIE-zar-uh", I think,

It's pronounced TA - SHARE - UH. I'm from Dallas, heard it plenty o' times.

[Illmatic]

I've been proven wrong there, Kappa. But I was at least closer than the guy who brought it up, right?

Another one: Illini guard Luther Head. Sounds like a great name for a pro wrestler or a movie villain, doesn't it?

[Kurtz]

Another one: Illini guard Luther Head. Sounds like a great name for a pro wrestler or a movie villain, doesn't it?
:lol:

You're right.

[ThePatient]

How could we forget Tiger Woods, I mean he is a golfer, but still...

[Understanding In a Crash]

Ruben Boumtje Boumtje (Spurs)
Coco Crisp (Indians)
Chilli Davis (Retired)

[Dead Star]

Gianluigi Buffon

[troops_of_doom]

Deportivo Wanka - Peruvian Football Team,
Sunny Blackpool - Football Team from Africa somewhere,
Kaiser Chiefs - South African Football Team,
Juan Ugarte - Greatest striker the Basque country has ever produced

[Illmatic]

Iowa State swingman Curtis Stinson...sounds like an NBA name, doesn't it?

Also, the members of the Reggie Cleveland "White Guy With Black Name" Club:
Reggie Cleveland (founding member)
Marcus Giles
Sidney Ponson
Khalil Greene

Troy O'Leary (Member of the Anti-Reggie Cleveland Club for black guys with white names)

[humbucking fool]

well there's all those great Irish athletes out there --

Shaquille O'Neal
Tracy McGrady
Donovan McNabb


And don't forget Mike Vick's great alias 'Ron Mexico'

[Steve DeBerg]

And I think its TJ Slaughter, or maybe there are two Slaughters.

Webster Slaughter was a wide reciever in the NFL in the 80s and 90s.

Any who, the single greatest name in sports history is Tshimanga Biakabatuka.

[Illmatic]

I don't see the point of making fun of ethnic names (ie, Biakabatuka). That just ain't right.

It's better to make fun of stupid American ones (ie, former Sixers and Warriors guards Bimbo Coles and Vonteego Cummings).

[Joey Hoser]

Nikoli Khabibulin is fun to say.

[Reaganista]

I don't see the point of making fun of ethnic names (ie, Biakabatuka). That just ain't right.

he wasn't making fun of it. He said it was great.

[Illmatic]

I know. But I think in this topic there are people who say the player's name then say "LOL!" or something like that.

EDIT: I stand corrected

[humbucking fool]

Not a player, but the New York Jets quarterbacks coach's name is Dick Curl