Seattle1
01-24-2007, 11:47 AM
Where did Bill Parcells get the nickname "The Tuna" from?
:confused:
Giants/Jets Legend
01-24-2007, 11:56 AM
My guess is he looks like one. :D
Here you go:
Parcells also found time to address the burning question of how he got his nickname: "Big Tuna."
"I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots," said Parcells, who was New England's linebackers coach in 1980.
"There was an old commercial from Starkist with Charlie the Starkist Tuna, so my players were trying to con me on something one time, and I said, 'You must think I'm Charlie the Tuna,' you know, a sucker, and that's kind of how it started.
"We started with it that year and they used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets. That's where it all started."
Not as interesting as I thought it would have been but there it is.
Source: http://www2.jsonline.com/packer/arc/13097/opp/patn121.html
That's bland.
You just don't get it.
Seattle1
01-25-2007, 06:53 PM
Here you go:
Not as interesting as I thought it would have been but there it is.
Source: http://www2.jsonline.com/packer/arc/13097/opp/patn121.html
That's kind of funny. Nicknames who can ever figure them out, lol.