Most Creative Sports Nicknames Of All Time

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IMHO:

"The Toy Cannon"

"The Intellectual Assassin"

"The Golden Jet"

"The King" (McElhenny, Petty, Lewis)

"Bouncy" Moore

"The Wild Bull of the Pampas"

"Homicide Hank"

"The Flying Dutchman"

"The Human Highlight Reel"

"The Human Rain Delay"

"The Wild Horse of the Osage"

"The Splendid Splinter"

"The Houdini of the Hardwood"

[skyin' brian]

Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson

William "The Refrigerator" Perry


for non-creative: calling catchers "Pudge"

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Sports Monickers

"Hoover" (AKA The Human Vacuum Cleaner
"Dr. Strangeglove"

[dukehjsteve]

"Night Train" Lane

[Marlow]

The Bullet!

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More

"The Ol' Mongoose"
"The Will o' the Wisp"
Luke "Old Aches & Pains" Appling
Harrison "Old Bones" Dillard

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"The Goat"

How is a goat associated wtih basketball? :roll:

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GOAT

Earl Manigault was tagged "Goat" because in the schoolyards of NYC, cats on the courts assumed he was being addressed as "Nanny Goat" (rather than Manigault), and they shortened that to "Goat".

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Davey Jones' Locker

"The Secretary of Defense"

[dukehjsteve]

Jim " Bad News" Barnes

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Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell

[tandfman]

Ninety-six

Vinegar Bend

[Bruce Kritzler]

"Crazy Legs" Hirsh
"Sweetness" - Walter Payton
Wilt " The Stilt" Chamberlain

[Brian]

I'm kind of partial to our own Turunesh, "The Baby-Faced Destroyer."

[Pego]

Stan - The Man Unusual