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03-20-2009, 07:23 AM
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Football Nicknames
Over on Football Almanac I've been adding as many nicknames as I can possibly find and verify. I welcome any support, suggestions, or ideas you might have. If you can't identify who the player is just click through:
A-Rod A-Train Afterburner Air McNair All Day All Purpose Automatic B-Rad B-Twice Bad Moon Bam Bambi Bananas Bart the Cool Bibbles Big Ben Big Boy Big Cat Big Country Big Daddy Big Game Big Hands Big Prison Big Train Bloody Broadway Joe Bullet Bust 'Em Bob Cadillac Cannonball Captain Kirk Ceddy Bear Champaign Tony Chaos Comeback Kid / Cool Joe Commander Cookie Monster Crazy Legs D-Ware Dora the Explorer Earthquake Man O' War Tarzan Texas Bob The Boomer The Dixie Fly The Horse Twenty Grand White Shoes Enjoy & feel free to add to the list (check first though on Football Almanac to see if I have it, but failed to add it to the list), Sean 
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05-17-2009, 09:57 AM
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Daryl Turner's nickname was "Deep Heat."
Brian Bosworth's nickname was "The Boz." Deion Sanders also went by "Neon Deion." (I see you already have Prime Time up there.) Some people call Leonard Weaver "The Church Van." Darrell Jackson's nickname was/is: "D-Jack." Cortez Kennedy was often called just plain "'Tez."
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05-17-2009, 10:00 AM
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Dave Krieg's nickname was "Mudbone."
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05-17-2009, 10:05 AM
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Dan Doornink was called "Dr. Dan" because he was going to medical school while he was in the league. (He's a physician now.)
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05-17-2009, 10:06 AM
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Sometimes people refer to Maurice Morris as "Mo Mo."
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05-17-2009, 10:12 AM
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Chris Berman used to call Ricky Watters "Running," as in Ricky "Running" Watters. But I don't know if you want to include Chris Berman's silly nicknames. On the other hand, this one kind of makes sense, and I think it caught on with a broader audience than most of Berman's. That's just my personal perception though.
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05-17-2009, 10:24 AM
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Rick Tuten's nickname was "Bootin'," as in Rick "Bootin'" Tuten.
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05-17-2009, 10:25 AM
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Owen Schmitt's nickname is "Runaway Beer Truck."
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05-17-2009, 10:34 AM
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Sometimes people call T.J. Houshmandzadeh just plain "Housh."
Wait till you see this ad for Fantasy Football, it's hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1N5NYyb24
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05-29-2009, 02:15 AM
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Ted Hendricks Keep on checking over on Football Almanac this season for me and send over anything I am missing. I will be doing live stats this year so data will all be updated within a day of the games being completed! Sean
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05-29-2009, 02:29 AM
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Sean
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05-29-2009, 02:33 AM
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Example: Player Xxxx Xxxx goes to college Xxxx, gets drafted, goes to a team, and gets put on the practice squad. Does he get included on the college page (I think so), but not really as a player from that school if he never played. So he should be included, but not really counted in the main set. Same for the team roster. I'll need code on that script to handle these type players. It will be a lifelong research project figuring them all out and I'll enjoy the work... Sean PS: I added every nickname you sent this morning (and linked your player names to their player pages over on Football Almanac).
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06-02-2009, 03:10 PM
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09-17-2010, 02:44 PM
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I came up with quite a few you didn't list, but I zipped through their pages, and sure enough you had them. (I was certainly hoping you didn't leave out Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost" or Walter Payton "Sweetness"!)
A few that I did notice are missing:
P.S. Thanks for your help getting on the board.
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