OT: College & Professional Athletes Nicknames

[Bama fan]

Don Garlitz (sp?)?

Big Daddy Don Garlits. drag racing legend

 

[boontonbomber]

The Ole Professor?
The Colonel?
Night Train?
The Admiral?
The King?
Chief?
Jelly Bean?
Mr, Bill?
Putt-Putt?
Baby Bull?
Slick?

The Ole Professor- Casey
Chief- going way back is Chief Bender
Mr. Bill - perhaps Bill Cartwright

 

[boontonbomber]

Here's one you that might stump you: Big Red

Ah, Big Red, what a horse!

 

[boontonbomber]

Hondo? and the Hondo Hurricane?

 

[Bama fan]

Galloping Ghost
Crazy Legs
Sweetness
The Rocket
Iron Head
Clyde the Glide
Minnesota Fats/New York Fats

 

[Hoops66]

The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Ballgame both belonged to.....

 

[Hoops66]

How about Rocket and Pocket Rocket? Oh, and the other Rocket...

 

[BobbyJ]

Galloping Ghost
Crazy Legs
Sweetness
The Rocket
Iron Head
Clyde the Glide
Minnesota Fats/New York Fats

Red Grange
Elroy Hirsch
Walter Payton
Maurice Richard
Craig Heyward
Clyde Drexler
???

 

[PoppaBear]

How about Rocket and Pocket Rocket? Oh, and the other Rocket...

Rocket Ishmail

 

[Hoops66]

Pee Wee

Rabbit

Smoky Joe

Ole Hoss

 

[PoppaBear]

Lam
Jam
Ham

All played for the same college team

 

[PoppaBear]

the microwave. husky guy, not the other one.
Uncle Cliffy.
gentle ben. husky guy, not the bear.
bean. husky girl, no one or no thing else.

Microwave is Vinnie Johnson

 

[PoppaBear]

One of my personal favorites..

The Mad Stork

 

[PoppaBear]

The Snake and The Mongoose

 

[Hoops66]

El Guapo

Pudge

Pudge (again)

Flying Tomato

 

[PoppaBear]

The (1st and original) G.O.A.T.

 

[PoppaBear]

El Guapo

Pudge

Pudge (again)

Flying Tomato

Sean White is the Flying Tomato

 

[BobbyJ]

Lam
Jam
Ham

All played for the same college team

Jones.

 

[BobbyJ]

One of my personal favorites..

The Mad Stork

From UMiami and the Raiders, Ted Hendricks.

 

[cullaville]

Dominique Wilkins was the Human Highlight Film.

That is what I meant.

I remember one night we went to a Knicks - Hawks game in NYC when Gerald Wilkins was with the Knicks and had a good game against the Hawks. We were in Charley O's after the game and Dominique was there with a couple of other people. He was very nice and we kidded him a little bit about Gerald having a better game that night than Dominque and he was good natured about it and were chatting a little bit when one of the guys I was with (a few too many beers) said to him "Dominque, isn't that a girls name"? I thought that Dominque might just take my buddy out but he just calmly turned his back on us and that was that. Still can't believe to this day my buddy said that to him.

 

[PoppaBear]

Bam Bam
The Bleeder
White Shoes

 

[PoppaBear]

The Nigerian Nightmare

 

[tkaes]

Commerce Comet? King Kong? The Reading Rifle? Preacher? Butch & Sundance?

In order: Mickey Mantle, Charlie Keller, Carl Furillo, Elwin "Preacher" Roe, Larry Czonka and Jim Kiick

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Microwave is Vinnie Johnson

husky guy, not the other one. vinny is the other one.

 

[boontonbomber]

In order: Mickey Mantle, Charlie Keller, Carl Furillo, Elwin "Preacher" Roe, Larry Czonka and Jim Kiick

Well done! No " research" needed?

 

[tkaes]

Here's one you that might stump you: Big Red

Mark McGwire and Bill Walton were called Big Red, but there were others.

 

[64Zcode]

The Snake and The Mongoose

'Back in the day', I saw them race at Dover Drag Strip. Saw "Ohio" George there as well.
The last couple years Ohio George has been in attendance at the FE Race and Reunion in Beaver Springs, Pa at
Beaver Springs Drag Strip.

 

[boontonbomber]

How about Rocket and Pocket Rocket? Oh, and the other Rocket...

Maurice and Henri

 

[PoppaBear]

The Pearl
Squirrel
Peanut

 

[boontonbomber]

Galloping Ghost
Crazy Legs
Sweetness
The Rocket
Iron Head
Clyde the Glide
Minnesota Fats/New York Fats

Grange, Hirsch, one of my college roommates was Iron Head's high school coach in Passsaic, NJ.
Clyde Frazier