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Favorite nicknames

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Jake from State Farm, Oct 26, 2020.

  1. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Chuck "The Rifleman" Person.

    It was only just now, on Googling his name, that I discovered his full name is Chuck Connors Person, and he is in fact named after Chuck Connors, the Rifleman himself.
     
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  2. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Wilt Chamberlain hated Wilt The Stilt
    He preferred The Big Dipper
     
  3. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Before he was a big TV star, Chuck Connors played for the Cubs in 1951 and the Celtics in 1947-48.
     
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  4. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Vinnie “Microwave” Johnson
    John “Crash” Mengelt
     
  5. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    He did a lot of dipping -- what was it, 20,000 times?
     
  6. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Wilt's house was known as "Ursa Major."

    He had a falling out with Jim Murray after inviting Murray and many others to a housewarming. Murray wasn't too kind in a column describing the decor, calling it "South American batcave."
     
  7. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Charles “Peanut” Tillman
    Henry “Gizmo” Williams
    “Mr. Goalie” Glen Hall
    “Cement Head” Dave Semenko
    Stu “The Grim Reaper” Grimson
    Dave “The Hammer” Schultz
     
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  8. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Isn't there a "Hammer" in every sport? There have been a few in football. Fred Williamson is the oldest I know of, though Jack Ham also had that one.
     
  9. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    How did this go 13 pages
    without Penitentiary Face?

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  10. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    You mean "Correctional Facility Face."
     
  11. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

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    "The Glider," Ed Charles. AKA the Mets' poet laureate.
     
  12. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    Rams linebacker Jack "Hawksaw" Reynolds. Once sawed a Jeep in half.
    "Boomer" Esiason, saw him briefly on CBS yesterday morning while changing channels to Fox.
     
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