Great football names

[Nohow]

Tank Bigsby gets my vote for best football name, edging out Bronco Nagurski and Crazylegs Hirsch.

 

[NittPicker]

Tank Bigsby gets my vote for best football name, edging out Bronco Nagurski and Crazylegs Hirsch.

Whether I played football or not, if my name was Elroy I'd prefer Crazylegs too.

 

[Nitwit]

Dick Butkis

 

[Bison13]

Weegie thompson....

 

[Tom_PSU]

You can’t get any more macho or gritty then June Jones.

 

[Got GSPs]

Tank Bigsby gets my vote for best football name, edging out Bronco Nagurski and Crazylegs Hirsch.

What about Bumper Pool?

 

[Classof09]

Best QB name - Kenny PICKETT.
Best K name - Chris BLEWITT.

Only at sPitt!

 

[Grant Green]

Smoke Monday - Auburn
Kavosiey Smoke - Kentucky
Boogie Knight - ULM

 

[NittPicker]

You can’t get any more macho or gritty then June Jones.

I like Penn State's own August "Mike" Michalske. At least neither guy was named April or May.

 

[LionJim]

You can’t get any more macho or gritty then June Jones.

He was a tough guy.

 

[Got GSPs]

Michael Stonebreaker, LB from ND

 

[Nitt1300]

Steve Smear

 

[anon1793628996]

Knute Rockne.

 

[Dan D. Lion]

Billy Cannon Heisman winner from LSU in the 60's and then a member of the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders

 

[s1uggo72]

Cladstone Coke
and Curtis Head sitting next to each other on the Marshall bench.

Think about it.

 

[Nohow]

Johnny Blood (McNally) and Fair Hooker.

 

[LionJim]

Edgar Allan Poe, All-America quarterback at Princeton.

Edgar Allan Poe (attorney general) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

One of his brothers was All-America as well.

Poe brothers - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Cabinpenn]

He Hate Me, aka Ron Stewart.

 

[Woodpecker]

Coy Bacon

 

[Nitwit]

Barkevious Mingo
Prince Amukamara
Ndamukong Suh
Frostee Rucker
Colt McCoy
Craphonso Thorpe (he only played one year in the NFL - go figure)
Lincoln Kennedy
Fair Hooker
Richie Incognito
Equanimeous St. Brown

​

 

[PhillyBillyReprise]

Bucko Kilroy from Temple and Eagles

 

[LionJim]

Bucko Kilroy from Temple and Eagles

Big Daddy Liscomb was decades ahead of his time. Cool name, too.

 

[ps_1294]

I always liked our own Lincoln Lippincott III. Just sounded so “Ivy League”. He could play, though. Since he graduated in late 60s there might be a Lincoln Lippincott IV or V out there by now!

 

[Big_O]

Running back Ben Gay.

 

[Big_O]

Barkevious Mingo
Prince Amukamara
Ndamukong Suh
Frostee Rucker
Colt McCoy
Craphonso Thorpe (he only played one year in the NFL - go figure)
Lincoln Kennedy
Fair Hooker
Richie Incognito
Equanimeous St. Brown

​

Interestingly 4 on this list played for the Browns over the years. Mingo, Rucker, McCoy and Hooker.

 

[LionJim]

Interestingly 4 on this list played for the Browns over the years. Mingo, Rucker, McCoy and Hooker.

So did Sammy Playslikeshit.

 

[FL. Lion]

Don't forget I M Hipp

 

[JoeBot409]

Chad Ochocinco

 

[MaconNitt]

Chris Fuamatu-Maʻafala was the best Ma'afala in the burgh

 

[NittPicker]

Sonny Sixkiller. Football or not, that's an awesome name.

 

[psuro]

Hiawatha Francisco

 

[Connorpozlee]

Rosy Grier was always a favorite of mine.

 

[fairgambit]

Ardley Ashkicker, a defensive end for Dartmouth in the late 60's.


OK, I made it up. Sorry.

 

[Nitwit]

Rosey Grier was always a favorite of mine.

FIFY- Of course it was Rosevelt, his proper name, known for wrestling Sirhan Sirhan, also an unusual name, to the ground after the Bobby Kennedy assassination. He later became an actor and an ordained minister.

 

[WDLion]

Cosmo Iacavazzi

 

[CVLion]

Hingle McCringleberry, of course

 

[WSTLion87]

Vagas Ferguson

 

[LionJim]

Vagas Ferguson

Played for Notre Dame?

 

[WSTLion87]

Correct and a local legend my dad used to talk about who could punt a ball 70 yards from Edwardsville, PA... "Rockhead" Seminkosky

 

[psuro]

Elvis Peacock.