Best Football Player Names:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Larry Csonka
Dick Butkus
Richard Dent
James Thrash
Joe Jurevicius

Brewery division:

Teddy Bruschi (pronounce it "Brew-ski")
Sam Adams

[democracyindanger]

1. I think you mean "Thrash," not "Trash"

Dent is probably the best name of all time.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Oops, edited to correct it...

[Ryano42]

67. Scott STUDWELL!

Second best linebacker name after Butkis!

Monster player...he and Singletary hand the best STARE!!!

http://www.sportsattic.com/nflphoto/photos/Studwell,Scott1.jpg

[democracyindanger]

3. hee hee. And I just remembered: Amp Lee.

Never did much in the NFL, but what a name.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Hmm would've been a good Russ Meyer Vixen name.

"Amp Lee" endowed, LOL.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Jim Kiick

Yale Lary.
Kyle Rote.

And the Mad Russian, Fred Biletnikoff.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Wasn't there a guy named Dave Casper on the Raidazz? I liked that.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Yup

Tight end, if memory serves. Damned good one, too.

[nytemare]

7. I like Chris Cooley.

Must be the alliteration.

Rock Cartwright is another. I am partial to Redskins, like Thrash.

Boss Bailey is a LB for Detroit, he is Champ's brother. Both cool names.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Rock is cool. Bailey boys have cool names as well. I don't know about

Boss, but at least Champ is an awesome player to boot. If Boss starts I imagine he must be at least okay.

[liberaltrucker]

10. Emerson Boozer

RB on the NYJ SBIII team with Namath.

[burythehatchet]

18. He and I lived in the same hood in New Rochelle

GO JETS!!

I wish Joe Willie had'nt become a drunk. He and Clyde Frazier defined NYC for me in the 70's

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. You know how Walt Frazier got the nick 'Clyde'?

You have 10 seconds...

[burythehatchet]

26. I do not

did it have something to do with Super Fly?

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Not really

Frazier was known as a stud dresser, and in the late '60s-early '70s he sported a '30s gangster look reminiscent of Warren Beatty in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde."

I understand he played a little basketball, too.

[burythehatchet]

30. I loved him for his "cool"

but the rest of that team, Bradley, Dave D., Reed, and Earl the Pearl (with Phil Jackson coming in to block inbounds passes) was memorable. Whatever happened to the game:(

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. The ABA happened to it

That league didn't last long, but it was wide-open compared to the NBA, and it didn't take long for fans to fall in love with guys like Julius Erving with his two-foot-wide 'fro dunking from the foul line with that red, white and blue ball. When the ABA folded and the NBA absorbed its players, they brought that style with them, and the owners weren't about to crack the golden egg.

Anyway, I think I'd take DeBusschere and Willis Reed for my must-win-one-game team. That night in 1970 when Reed limped onto the court about two minutes before the start of game seven against the Lakers, I got the feeling it was all over. He and DeBusschere were gamers.

[burythehatchet]

34. I was 10 and AT that game 7

the Garden was shaking. Greatest sports event of my life.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. I'm jealous

I remember when Reed came out. I swear, I don't know what kept the roof on.

[liberaltrucker]

29. You and me both

Someday I'm gonna visit NYC as a tourist. Great town. No offense intended, but it's a pain in the butt as a trucker:hi:

[burythehatchet]

35. I can't imagine negotiating an 18 wheeler over the GW bridge

during rush hour (all day). But I live in Atlanta and NY drivers are a 100 times better.

[liberaltrucker]

37. Believe me, GWB is the least of it.

And you're 1000% right about Atlanta drivers:scared:

[matcom]

11. 'He Hate Me'

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Heh, if we get into nicknames this whole thing opens WIDE

[Elidor]

71. Best name in football history

[KamaAina]

76. He actually runs back kicks for the Panthers under his real name

the far more prosaic "Rod Smart".

[huskerlaw]

13. I.M. Hipp

RB, Nebraska

Jamal Lord, QB Nebraska...particularly fun when playing Notre Dame. "You may have touchdown Jesus, but the Lord plays for us."

[liberaltrucker]

15. Related to I.P. Freely?

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

78. I saw I.M. Hipp play in the 1980 Hula Bowl. Real name: Isaiah Moses Walter

:)

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Chris Fuamatu Ma'Afala

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. What, do they just call him "Fu"?

[Beware the Beast Man]

36. Actually, yes.

When he was a Steeler, the crowd would shout "FU!" and it sounded like a round of boos.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Lofa Tatupu, a personal fave of O'Reilly, LOL

[KamaAina]

40. Son of Pats RB Mosi, immortalized on The Simpsons.

For some reason (must've been one of those flashback-type shows) Homer needed to chant in a pseudo-Polynesian tongue, thusly: "Mosi Tatupu! Mosi Tatupu!"

[burythehatchet]

19. Iron Balls McGinty

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. NOW you're just making shit up!

[burythehatchet]

22. busted

:(

[maveric]

21. Bronco Nagurski

Did I spell it correctly?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. Bronko. I guess it was his real name!

I always liked "Ray Nitschke" also.

[MnFats]

50. Yes. Nagurski was an asskicking Minn. farm boy. And

Ray Nitschke was a god when I was a kid.
we used to laugh at how the announcers only had to say one word when some running back got clobbered...
"NITSCHKE!!!!"

[AngryAmish]

47. agreed

[SethInUpstateNY]

24. I remember watching NFL Lost Treasures

and Steve Sabol was talking about the best player names and 2 of the players he mentioned both played on the Browns in the early 70s. They were Fair Hooker and Chip Glass.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. Dick Butkus.

:popcorn:

[Burma Jones]

31. Bart Starr - and

Red Grange
Joe Montana
Daryl Lamonica
Garo Yepremian
Ray Nitschke
Curly Lambeau
Jim Ringo
Franco Harris
Jack Ham
Deacon Jones

[Blue_Tires]

33. lol

Eric Hipple
Hart Lee Dykes
Jubilee Dunbar

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. Bobby Lane and somebody took the other ones I was going to say

:hi:

[tuvor]

41. Does the Canadian Football League count?

BC Lions' QB Joe Paopao (pronounced 'pow-pow')

[Pool Hall Ace]

42. Cedric Killings,

Revie Sorie
Mick Tinglehoff
Zefross Moss
Dan Bunz
Dave Butz
Ali Haji-Sheikh

[jobycom]

43. Two Cowboys: Troy Aikman, Dat Nguyen (pronounced win),

[LSK]

44. Mean Joe Green

[jarab]

45. Raider's Lincoln Kennedy - avoids parades/theatres. eom

...O...

[Broken_Hero]

46. for me Bruschi....

even though Sam Adams played for my Hawks...:)

[MnFats]

48. Didja forget Bubba Smith?

he quit doing beer commercials when more little kids recognized him fromthe commercials than from his ass-kicking playing days.

[Beausoir]

49. Scott Studwell.

[MnFats]

51. Enos Slaughter. Banana Nose Zeke Bonura.

whoops. wrong sport. those are real guys, though.


There is a famous baseball photo that shows Henry "Zeke" Bonura leaving the field, his jersey in tatters after a huge brawl.
he is essentially naked to the waist except for a few threads still intact. His face looks like hamburger.
Slaughter is supposed to have been a terrible racist bigot.
Anyway....my dad was at the game where that photo was taken.....

[Ptah]

52. When Tedy arrived at the University of Arizona,

his name was pronounced Bru-shi.

We fixed that.

Desert Swarm.



Bear Down.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

53. Chris Hanburger and Dave Butz with the Washington Redskins

Hanburger I believe was a member of the famed "over-the-hill" gang that was so popular in the early 1970s. "Hanburger" (the play-by-play guys pronounced it "hamburger") is a great football name, as is "Butz". Butz I think was in the defensive line and had a giant butt, in fact. I think he played just a couple of years after the "over-the-hill" gang had its great moments, but I'm not sure.

Fair Hooker had a great name but a very weird one. He was a star on the Cleveland Browns in the late 60's and early 70's and a pretty good wide receiver. It probably took a lot of guts to go through life with the name of "Fair Hooker" with all the kidding he must have had in the locker room.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

65. Ah how could I forget Dave Butz, one of the greatest Hogs! Arrgh!

:banghead:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

66. What's up with calling the kid "Fair", sheesh. He could've played it off

if they'd named him "Brian" or "Scott" or something. But every kid in every class he ever had (until he was in high school and big enough to stomp people) would have to at least supress a giggle or snort every time his name was called.

Chris Hanburger was a part of the "future is now" "over the hill" Redskins from the 70's (Sonny Jurgensen etc.) I don't know if it's still there but he had a Ford dealership, I still remember the TV and radio jingle which your post has unfortunately implanted in my brain again...

"It's Chris HANburger, Chris HANburger, Chris HANburger FORDDDD!"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

70. Rams Quaterback Roman Gabriel is another strange name

Who would name their kid "Roman" as a first name?

Another guy who had an unforgettable name but never made it to the pros was Washington Huskies quarterback Sonny Sixkiller. Sixkiller was a tremendous force in college football, named an All-American, completely turning the Huskies football team around, passing in back-to-back 300+ yard games and making the cover of Sports Illustrated. But he wasn't even drafted to the pros, I don't think. In fact, I remember hearing that he was having trouble just getting teams to give him a try-out after he graduated. He WAS a bit small for a pro quarterback, but then Fran Tarkenton wasn't a giant, either. Of course Sonny Sixkiller was a full-blooded Native American and very dark-complected. I hope that didn't have anything to do with it. I remember James Harris, the first black quarterback to start in the NFL who played just after the Sonny Sixkiller era. Harris was a major star at Grambling but when he was drafted into the pros, the teams trying to draft him were asking him to switch positions as a condition to being drafted. And when Harris started with the L.A. Rams in the mid-1970s, there actually was a very heated controversy in the city, with many fans threatening to boycott the team if Harris started. There was a great deal of racism back then and many white fans didn't feel that a black quarterback would be smart enough to lead a team on the field. I don't know if that factored in as the reason why Sonny Sixkiller was barely given a look by pro NFL teams and not even drafted. I remember seeing Sixkiller play on TV in college and he was absolutely magnetic and exciting to watch, a scrambler and risk-taker who had a rifle arm.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

75. Steelers had a black QB, Joe something? who was pretty good, if I

recall, I think not too long or just before the Bradshaw era. Joe Garrison?

[SethInUpstateNY]

77. It was Joe Gilliam.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

82. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[SethInUpstateNY]

83. Thanks

:hi:

[nytemare]

81. I have a picture of me with Butz and Mosely when I was a kid.

Butz was huge, and always had a scratched up helmet.

It is hanging in my office at work.
:)

[ashling]

54. Tropical aviary division:

Canary Simmons

[lpbk2713]

55. Booger McFarland

Tampa Bay

[abex]

56. oj

[driver8]

57. Rocky Blier, Otis Sistrunk, Frenchy Fuqua, Jim Otto, ,

Golden Richards
Fred Bilitnikof
Conrad Dobler

[HillDem]

58. Richie Incognito

He weighs 305.

[KitchenWitch]

59. Bronco Nagurski

[Robeson]

60. Damn! I was going to say the same KW. That is the ALLTIME...

...football name! Good call!...:thumbsup:

[KitchenWitch]

61. I am wondrous and many splendored!

:rofl:

It is the quintessential football name for sure!

[Robeson]

62. Glad to see you are back to your old self, and yes....

...it is the quintessential football name!....:thumbsup:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

63. HOW do you not include Mack STRONG!!??

... and there was once a guy named Steve Stonebreaker...

[Maddy McCall]

64. Hokie Gajan

[book lady]

68. Fuzzy Thurston, Green Bay Packer

[madinmaryland]

69. Dick Pinch..

or was he a guest on the o'lielly factor?

:evilgrin:

listen to stephanie miller for more on this...

[Spirochete]

72. Elvis Peacock

Running back for the ..L.A. Rams, I think?

[MsAnthropy]

73. Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr

[jakefrep]

74. You forgot...

..Jubilee Dunbar
Fair Hooker
Chris Baldinger
Ademchinobe Echemandu

[bbinacan]

79. Mercury Morris

[RPM]

80. Craphonso Thorpe

it has crap in it.

[mikeargo]

84. From the all-flake team...

Joe Don Looney. His coach once said of him: "Never was a man more appropriately named."

[tjwash]

85. Y.A. Tittle

I don't know, that name just always cracked me up...

[Orsino]

86. Knute Rockne

I win.

[peekaloo]

87. Fred Biletnikoff

[FredScuttle]

88. The Boz

It's taken me some time to fully appreciate the genius of "The Boz"

[Kickin_Donkey]

89. A few off the top of my head ...

Paul Warfield
Nick Buonaconti
Ed Podolak
Napolean McCallum
Merlin Olsen
Lawyer Milloy
Ronnie Lott

Most unfootball-like: June Jones III