Your favorite football nicknames of all time

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  1. Cakes

    Cakes Mr. Knowledge 2010

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    Players:
    Craig "Ironhead" Heyward
    "Bullet" Bob Hayes
    Frank "Bruiser" Kinard
    "The Nigerian Nightmare" Christian Okoye
    Dick "Night Train" Lane
    William "Refrigerator" Perry

    Teams/Units:
    Orange Crush
    The Purple Gang
    Purple People Eaters
    Steel Curtain
    Doomsday Defense
    Monsters of the Midway
    Over the Hill Gang
     
  2. ganooch

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    Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton
    Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb
    Ed "Too Tall" Jones
    "Mean Joe" Green
    David " "Deacon Jones"
    "Broadway" Joe Namath

    TEAMS/Units

    New York Sack Exchange
    Fearsome Foursome
    Air Coryell
     
  3. NY2MD_FS

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    Mine isn't a nickname instead probably one of the cooler names in football...


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    You got to love a guy when he plays with a broken leg.
     
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    Jack Youngblood for those that don't know.
     
  5. JetGreen

    JetGreen New Member

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    Here are some others:

    Jim "Jumbo" Elliott
    Jim "Lassie" O'Brien
    Jack "The Assassin" Tatum
     
  6. Murrell2878

    Murrell2878 Lets go JETS!
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    Elbert "Ickey" Woods
     
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    "Fast" Willie Parker

    I'm kidding by the way:)
     
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    BIG COUNTRY Well-Known Member

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    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Christian Okoye. When he was on, he ruled. I really liked that guy. What year was that when he had 1400+ yds? Er, late 80's... You can see I don't cheat. I also bite at trivia because of it.
    "Broadway Joe" - H-E-L-L-L-L-L-OOOOOOO! :lol:
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    "Joe Willie White Shoes".

    Neutron Natrone - I always thought that was pretty dumb. There was a thread once with Jets players with cool names. Me, I went with Burgess Owens and Derrick Gaffney, but there's tons to choose from.
     
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  10. ganooch

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    Youngblood was one tough SOB
     
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    Billy "Whiteshoes" Johnson and who could forget the best nickname Howard Cosell ever thought of:
    Joe "Look at that little monkey go" Washington.
     
  12. ganooch

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    don't forget
    Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds
     
  13. Attyla

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    The Assasin Jack Tatum

    The Fridge

    The Snake (and we aint talking plummer here)

    Bubba Smith

    Crazy Legs Hersch

    Just to name a very few
     
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    Walter "Sweetness" Payton.
     
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    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Sam "Bam" Cunningham is pretty weak. Wasn't he a Patriot.
     
  16. ganooch

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    yes he was
     
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    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Would "Hoodlum" count for Stan Blinka?
     
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    Learn To Swim 2008 Nightowltom "Best Non-Jets Poster" Award Winn

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    Elvis "Toast" Patterson
     
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    Otis "my man" Smith - Jim Harbaugh
     
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    Oh....

    How can you guys not even bring this one up?

    Ricky "The Human Bong" Williams
     

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