Best football Names?

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Brock Forsey sounds like a tough SOB. Also, aforementioned Colt McCoy is almost too perfect.

As for funniest/dumbest: perennial practice squad scrub RB for the NY Jets, Little John Flowers, who should not be confused with this guy or this guy
 

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Can't beat Bronko Nagurski; Dick "Night Train" Lane is pretty good.


Are we counting nicknames, though?


Fuzzy Thurston; Jim Cheyunski; Bob Babich; Jim Ninowski; Norm van Brocklin;


Jim Grabowski; Tom Nowatzke; ---slavic names always work for football!---


Doug Buffone; Pat Studstill; Larry Csonka (as in Zonked!); Jim Kiick (as in Kick Ass!); Vern Den Herder; Billy Cannon;
 

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Looks like i have started quite a popular forum
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. I agree that a lot of the Polish or eastern european last names fit good as they are pronounced with more empahsis.


Brady POPpinga of the packers has a pretty cool last name.
 

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A couple of my favorite black football player names:


Carlester Crumpler (Alge's older brother)


Fair Hooker (WR for Cleveland in the early '70s)


For baseball, have to go with Coco Crisp.
 

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PhillyBirds said:
Freethinker said:
As for funniest/dumbest: perennial practice squad scrub RB for the NY Jets, Little John Flowers, who should not be confused with this guy or this guy

Eagles' TE L.J. Smith is also Little John Smith. Weird.

Did not know that. Must be a popular name in a certain community
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I liked the names Butch Woolfolk and Harlen Huckleby, RB's for Michigan a while back. Also Joe Don Looney is a good one. The classic name is Dick Butkis, wow he must have had it rough as a kid, no wonder he was so tough. Dick, butt and kiss all in one name.
 

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Billy Cannon. Was just reading about him today. He's finally going into the College Football Hall of Fame after getting his life back together.
 

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Nebraska had two RBs in the 1970s one named Jarvis Redwine and the other was I.M. Hipp.

My brother played high school ball with a guy named Worthy Warnack, I always liked that one.

Randy Rhino LB for Ga Tech.
Junior Ah You was a Hawaiian who played at Arizona State and in the CFL.
Bub Deerinwater part indian RB from Wichita Falls, TX. and Oklahoma State.
Hokie Gajan: LSU, Saints
Happy Feller kicked for the last all-white national championship team in 1969.
Scooter Monzingo played for Texas in 1968
 

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Anyone every heard of Pig Prather? LOL. Yes there was a cornberback several years ago that was named Pig Prather. He didn't get drafted though.
 

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An ex-QB for the Washington Huskies, Sonny Sixkiller.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sixkiller" target="_blank">http:/
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sixkiller</a>
 

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i always liked the name Bryce Paup.

helluva name for a defensive player, and he was quite a gifted player as well. i remember the linebacker/defensive end as a Buffalo Bill and he was Defensive POY one year, as well as a 4-time Pro Bowler.
 
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