Stacker Sports- Day 157- The Name Game
877 sats \ 31 comments \ @grayruby 9 May Stacker_Sports
The Name Game
The other day I made a post about Jalen Brunson and the Minnesota Timberwolves defensive unit, giving them both new nicknames. Stone Cold and the Wolf pack respectively. Love me a good sports nickname.
So let's play the name game. Give me your favourite nickname or nicknames if you can't choose one from each major sport. I will go first.
MLB- Frank Thomas "The Big Hurt" NFL- William "Refrigerator" Perry NBA- "The Black Mamba" Kobe Bryant NHL- Maurice "Rocket" Richard
So who you got? Extra zaps for awesome ones I forgot about.
I am going to be offline for a bit to attend an appointment but I will be back on this afternoon to exchange some sats for some nicknames.
Sats for all, GR
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335 sats \ 5 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 9 May
MLB -- tie between "Spaceman" Bill Lee and "Big Sexy" Bartolo Colon NFL -- “The Minister of Defense” Reggie White (though if we count Bermanisms, Eric "Sleeping with" Bienemy) NBA -- Either "Chocolate Thunder" Darryl Dawkins, or "The Round Mound of Rebound" Charles Barkley. NHL -- "Super Mario," of course.
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135 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
I can't find the old SNL clip naming Daryl Dawkins "Man of the Millennium". It was awesome, though.
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 9 May
Round Mound Of Rebound might be the best ever.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Awesome list. Haha Big Sexy. I forgot about Bartolo. The round mound of rebound is also great.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 9 May
The anniversary of Big Sexy's greatest moment just passed:
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
It's a shame we won't see pitchers hit homeruns anymore. Unless they are named Ohtani.
Actually on second thought, it's not really a shame. For every fun moment like this there were probably 1000 non competitive pitcher at bats.
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314 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
This is sort of cheating, but my favorite nickname was when Shaq called a 40 year old Vince Carter "Half man half octogenarian" during a highlight breakdown that may have been Shaqtin a Fool. The NBA has so many awesome nicknames, it'll be hard for me to pick.
NFL - "The Mad Bomber" Daryl Lamonica NBA - "The Dorture Chamber" for Lu Dort is an amazing nickname that I only just started hearing. My favorite, though, is probably either "The Worm" for Rodman or Hakeem "the Dream". MLB - "The Big Unit" Randy Johnson
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Big unit was my number 2 in baseball. I didn't even know that Dort's nickname was the Dorture chamber. That's awesome.
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
Grant Hill said it on the broadcast and then I heard someone else use it on a podcast.
I also think "Stifle Tower" and "Slim Reaper" are pretty great current nicknames, even if Gobert and KD aren't my favorite players.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Basketball actually has some really great ones currently. Ant Man, Joker, Spicy P, Jimmy Buckets.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
They were great when I was a kid and then went through a lull (T-Mac, C-Web, etc). I'm glad they're back.
It didn't quite fit the prompt, but I love Splash Brothers as a two man nickname.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Save that one. Maybe next week I will do a nickname duo/trio post. Splash brothers and the bash brothers in baseball come to mind. murders row in baseball. Triple Bs in baseball.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
Nice. I almost put "Soul Patrol" as my NFL entry. I'm glad I'll get to use it.
I'm not sure how many nicknames I can think of like that.
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252 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 9 May
NFL- Jerome "The Bus" Bettis MLB- Oil Can Boyd NBA- Prince Of Darkness Bill Lambeer NHL- "Jethro" Clark Gillies
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104 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 May
"The Bus" is definitely an all-timer.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 10 May
Celtics looking mortal tonight.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 10 May
It looks like you were right that Mitchell could light up the Celtics.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 10 May
Celtics had an off night. Let’s see what Cavs can do at home.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 May
They can definitely be rattled.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Great name and it fit. He ran like a bus.
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54 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
I totally forgot about Oil Can Boyd. Prince of darkness is pretty great for Bill Lambeer as well.
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103 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 9 May
I don't know many nicknames in sports, but I've always thought being called "the great one" is pretty cool. I think Gretzky still has many unbroken records to this day?
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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 9 May
Similarly, over on the pro wrestling side of things, Katsuyori Shibata has earned the nickname "The Wrestler."
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Can't get a much better nickname than that but maybe not the most fun one.
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210 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 9 May
Going to list a few of my favorites:
NFL - Jim Harbaugh “The comeback kid” MLB - Ken Griffey Jr “The Kid” PGA- Eldrick Woods “Tiger” NASCAR - Dale Earnhardt “The Intimidator” NHL- Dominik Hasek “The Dominator” And1- Phillip champion “Hot Sauce” And Ballaholic (real name unknown)
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 9 May
Dominator would be my number two in NHL after Rocket. Hot Sauce. I like that one. I also like Pascal Siakam's nickname Spicy P.
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 May
"The Mad Stork" Ted Hendricks
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 15 May
Haha that's quite the nickname. I wasn't familiar with that one.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 May
6'7" Raiders LB in the 70's
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 15 May
Digging deep in the Raiders archives.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 May
That was our Golden Age and the 70's were an age of great sports nicknames, in general.
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