Interesting Player Names

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

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But, without question, the starting TE on the all-time All-Name team, and I think Gordon will back me up on this is former Kings College tight end Harry Dickey.

Wow ... I just about died when I read that ... 

[reality check]

bman

I went to college with a Michael Jordan but he was also rich so he had to be introduced as "the one without athletic talent".


Capital has a QB named Hershey, a receiver named Kraft and a punter named Gerber...sounds like aisle nine at the grocery store.

Heidelberg compliments with FR RB Chris Cola and LB Vic Bologna.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I'm grateful that I don't do play-by-play for Kean!

I did finally have no trouble with UM's Tshimanga Biakabatuka, but I was also happy that the fan's just called him 'Touchdown Tim'!  When he went off for 5(?) TDs against Ohio State, the announcers might have died if not for the nickname.

As a lecturer facing MANY unusual names, I'm always grateful for the occasional 'John Smith' (which, of course, always turns out to be 'Smythe').

[K-Mack]

This is interesting. I played with a guy named Mohammad Kohistani, and if you look at it, it's really not a hard name to pronounce, even if you have to do the grade-school sound-it-out.

But PA announcers across the south must have just freaked when they saw an ethnic name. They would call out 'Kostentoonie' and 'Kokennani' with the tackle, and we'd laugh like "there's no other k in there. Where'd that come from?'

In a way, that reminds me that names aren't really funny when they're from another background (although someone the person trying to Americanize the name is), but the funniest ones tend to be some of the ones mentioned on this thread ... just a bad combination of common names.

Saw a name on the NCAA leaders, I forget from where though. Not really funny, but different ... Ryan Sir Louis.

[Pat Coleman]

That's Ohio Wesleyan's quarterback, yeah.

[gordonmann]

I think Trin8-0 unearthed the best name yet.

Check out the name of this Middlebury Panther:

9  Tiger Lyon  Jr.  QB  6'2"  185  Coronado/El Paso, Texas

[Pat Coleman]

He should've gone to Coast Guard or Wash U.

[gordonmann]

Oh my.

[ADL70]

I still think you can't get better than Witt's Will Block, not sure if he's on the roster this year.

[gordonmann]

I always liked names that spelled out game functions.

Like Jim Zinn at DeSales for basketball.

When he came off the bench, it led to the inevitable exhange:

Where is Jim? Jim Zinn (the game).

Okay, maybe only inevitable when I was calling games.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I trust Will Block played OL (or perhaps FB)? 

[frank uible]

Ypsi: Perhaps Will Block was the Mad Hatter.

[Mr. Ypsi]

frank,

A pun THAT bad deserves a boost in your karma! 

[Darryl Nester]

Bluffton has a safety named Taylor Iceman.  When he had two interceptions  in the first half against Adrian, the newspaper reporter sitting next to me in the press box was envisioning a clever headline about Iceman cooling off the Bulldog passing attack.  Then Adrian scored 38 straight points over the rest of the game, so that put an end to that line of creative thinking.

[rbaikie]

The most interesting name I ever heard was

Wonder Monds Jr - I believe he went to Nebraska and did a stint with the 49ers -

I also think his son Wonder Monds III either played a high level of football or baseball -

and his middle name was tremendous!

So not only a unique name but one passed through several generations