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Best Sports Nicknames

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by qtlaw, Oct 17, 2012.

  1. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    There was somebody who put together the first letter of his first name with the first syllable of his last name. Don't remember who that was, but it is pretty clever.
     
  2. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    Ol Hoss Radbourn
    Avisail "Mini Miggy" Garcia

    and former Purdue basketball player Kelsey Barlow or "GDB" short for "God-damned Barlow" which the coaching staff was reputed to mutter every few minutes during each game whenever he would do something stupid
     
  3. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    Chicoutimi Cucumber (Georges Vezina)

    Game. Set. Match.

    Others in the running

    "Cyclone" Taylor

    The Magnificant one (Lemieux)

    The Great One (Gretzky)

    Mr. Hockey (Howe)

    Uke (Sawchuk)

    Pudge

    Bronko (Nagurski)
     
  4. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty New Member

    clemente beat gretzky to that one by many years.
     
  5. MUTigers

    MUTigers Member

    Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy
     
  6. JosephC.Myers

    JosephC.Myers Active Member

    I'll throw some in.....

    "Dr. Death"
    "The American Dream"
    "The Russian Nightmare"
    "The Excellence of Execution"
    "The Phenomenal One"
     
  7. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    'Super Mario' was a better one for Lemieux.
    Although, for the record, I never liked Lemieux.


    To further clarify:
    Claude Lemieux, yes; Mario Lemieux, no.
     
  8. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    Mike Hargrove, The Human Rain Delay
     
  9. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Agree!
     
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Jeffrey "Penitentiary Face" Leonard. Even his runner-up name, Hac-Man, was good.
     
  11. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    --"The Toast of the East Coast"
    --"Big Cat"
    --"Man of a Thousand Masks"
    --"The Duke of Dorchester"
     
  12. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

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