There Has Been One Funny Sports Nickname Lately
Like so many other guys my age ( I suppose the correct term is "middle aged men") I have become something of a curmudgeon.
Nothing is as good as it used to be (although I am willing to admit that maybe the basketball shorts I wore in high school were shorter than they really needed to be).
The NBA is all isolation plays and bad fundamentals.
Baseball is all home runs and steroids.
And the funny nicknames aren't what they used to be.
Back in my day, the athletes had truly funny names a lot of the time.
We had "Oil Can" Boyd pitching for the Red Sox and generally being strange.
Even stranger than him was Bill "Spaceman" Lee.
Pitching for the archrival Yankees (after coming over from Oakland) was "Catfish" Hunter.
Perhaps best of all was the immortal Fred McGriff who played first base for the Braves.
He went by "Crime Dog.
" But I have to admit that there has been one pretty cool name in this century.
Remember the guy from the XFL? "He Hate Me?" Now that was a funny nickname, even if no one had any idea what it meant.
As most of you are probably aware of, the world has been going downhill lately.
To be more precise, the world has been going to you know where in a handbasket ever since I was young.
Those were the golden days, of course.
So what's the particular problem I'm talking about here? It is the very serious problem of a lack of humorours names (or anything even remotely clever) in sports.
Sports figures used to have clever nicknames.
But now, they just go by an initial and last name or something and think it's the height of cool.
D-Will? Please.
T.
O.
? How creative.
What I wish for is the good old days.
In the really old days there were cool sports nicknames like "The Manassas Mauler" (boxer Jack Dempsey) and "Cool Papa" (Josh Bell - Negro League baseball player.
We had people like "Satchel" Paige - another Negro League player.
In the NFL, there was Dick "Night Train" Lane.
In the NBA there was "Wilt the Stilt.
" Today it's all D-Wade and other such things.
We really need more funny nicknames again! Read more here.
Nothing is as good as it used to be (although I am willing to admit that maybe the basketball shorts I wore in high school were shorter than they really needed to be).
The NBA is all isolation plays and bad fundamentals.
Baseball is all home runs and steroids.
And the funny nicknames aren't what they used to be.
Back in my day, the athletes had truly funny names a lot of the time.
We had "Oil Can" Boyd pitching for the Red Sox and generally being strange.
Even stranger than him was Bill "Spaceman" Lee.
Pitching for the archrival Yankees (after coming over from Oakland) was "Catfish" Hunter.
Perhaps best of all was the immortal Fred McGriff who played first base for the Braves.
He went by "Crime Dog.
" But I have to admit that there has been one pretty cool name in this century.
Remember the guy from the XFL? "He Hate Me?" Now that was a funny nickname, even if no one had any idea what it meant.
As most of you are probably aware of, the world has been going downhill lately.
To be more precise, the world has been going to you know where in a handbasket ever since I was young.
Those were the golden days, of course.
So what's the particular problem I'm talking about here? It is the very serious problem of a lack of humorours names (or anything even remotely clever) in sports.
Sports figures used to have clever nicknames.
But now, they just go by an initial and last name or something and think it's the height of cool.
D-Will? Please.
T.
O.
? How creative.
What I wish for is the good old days.
In the really old days there were cool sports nicknames like "The Manassas Mauler" (boxer Jack Dempsey) and "Cool Papa" (Josh Bell - Negro League baseball player.
We had people like "Satchel" Paige - another Negro League player.
In the NFL, there was Dick "Night Train" Lane.
In the NBA there was "Wilt the Stilt.
" Today it's all D-Wade and other such things.
We really need more funny nicknames again! Read more here.
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