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Is it me or are really cool nicknames in sports rare now?
Here are a few of my favorites:
Football
Ted Hendricks The Mad Stork
Dick Lane Night Train
Gale Sayers The Kansas Comet
David Jones Deacon
Basketball
Julius Erving Dr. J
Earvin Johnson Magic
George Kervin The Ice Man
David Robinson The Admiral
Karl Malone The mailman
Basball
Henry Aaron hammerin Hank
Willie Mays the say hey kid
Sam McDowell sudden sam
Bob Feller rapid Robert or Bullet Bob
Ozzie Smith the wizard (of oz)
Hockey
Bobby Hull the golden jet

I let the obvious UNC ones off, trying to think outside the box
Got anymore?
 
Roger the Dodger Staubach

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Bambi (Lance Alworth)

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Fred -The Hammer- Williamson
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And, yes, I agree... nicknames are rarely ever heard anymore.
 
I think there are still a good number out there

King James (Lebron)
The Splash Brothers (Steph Curry/Klay Thompson)
Beast Mode
 
Boxing has the best nicknames without a doubt. My all time favorite is James "Lights Out" Toney.

Some other favorites are:

Evander "Real Deal" Holyfield
Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns (and later Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton)
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler
"Iron" Mike Tyson
Vitali "Dr. Ironfist" Klitschko
Wladimir "Dr. Steelhammer" Klitschko (for those of you that don't know, the Klitschko brothers have PhDs, thus "Dr.")
Apollo Creed - "The Count of Monte Fisto"
Lew Jenkins - "The Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater"
 
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TarHeelNation11 said:
Who was The Big Fundamental?
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Seriously?

coolwaterunc said:
Tim Duncan
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And what's so great about that nickname is that the guy with more nicknames than anyone in the history of sport - Shaquille O'Neal - was the one that came up with that. It was back in the day when whatever Shaq said was gold. And he was simply asked to give Duncan a nickname. He said it and ever since then, everybody referred to Duncan as such. Meanwhile, Shaq took "The Big..."everything else. He was "The Big Aristotle", The Big Cactus (later morphed into "The Shaqtus"), "The Big Shamrock" and of course, Diesel.

I love Shaq.
 
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Here are a few of my favorites of each sport:

Football:
Reggie White - "The Minister of Defense"
Deion Sanders - "Prime Time"
Christian Okoye - "The Nigerian Nightmare"

Basketball:
Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson
Dominique Wilkins - "The Human Highlight Reel"
Dennis Rodman - "The Worm"

Baseball:
Frank Thomas - "The Big Hurt"
Pete Rose - "Charlie Hustle"
Reggie Jackson - "Mr. October"
 
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gunslingerdick said:
Seriously?



And what's so great about that nickname is that the guy with more nicknames than anyone in the history of sport - Shaquille O'Neal - was the one that came up with that. It was back in the day when whatever Shaq said was gold. And he was simply asked to give Duncan a nickname. He said it and ever since then, everybody referred to Duncan as such. Meanwhile, Shaq took "The Big..."everything else. He was "The Big Aristotle", The Big Cactus (later morphed into "The Shaqtus"), "The Big Shamrock" and of course, Diesel.

I love Shaq.
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Yeah, Shaq had a ton of great nicknames, and that's part of the reason I remember The Big Fundamental for Duncan. Shaqtus was my personal favorite of Shaq's names, but he had a ton of them.
 
Great nickname for a not great player (well, at least in the pros): Johnny Football.
 
coolwaterunc said:
Tim Duncan has always been fascinating to me. The man is the best power forward to ever play basketball, yet I still consider him to be one of the most underrated and underappreciated players of all time.
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Oh without question. The Spurs "dynasty" as a whole kind of falls into this category, but especially Duncan. He just goes about his business, gets his 20 and 10 every night, nothing flashy, but he's generally gonna beat you. One of my favorites to ever play the game.
 
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Huh, I honestly have never heard of the nickname The Big Fundamental until this thread. I guess I was just asleep or something. Big Tim Duncan fan. Dude was money for so many years.

Some other good nicknames of dudes from now and from the past.

Mike "The A-Train" Alstott
Psycho T
Big Papi
Manny Being Manny (not really a nickname, per say, but oh well)
Teddy Ballgame (Teddy Bridgewater, before he died)
The Round Mound of Touchdown (Jared Lorenzen)
Floyd "Money" Maywhether
Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning (if you believe Jon Gruden)
The Red Rifle (Andy Dalton, lulz)
Mitch(ell) "Mr. Biscuit / Biscuit" Trubisky
Aaron "Superman" Rodgers (I may have made this one up?)
Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson
Matt Harvey, The Dark Knight

That's all I got for now.
 
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TarHeelNation11 said:
Huh, I honestly have never heard of the nickname The Big Fundamental until this thread. I guess I was just asleep or something. Big Tim Duncan fan. Dude was money for so many years.

Some other good nicknames of dudes from now and from the past.

Mike "The A-Train" Alstott
Psycho T
Big Papi
Manny Being Manny (not really a nickname, per say, but oh well)
Teddy Ballgame (Teddy Bridgewater, before he died)
The Round Mound of Touchdown (Jared Lorenzen)
Floyd "Money" Maywhether
Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning (if you believe Jon Gruden)
The Red Rifle (Andy Dalton, lulz)
Mitch(ell) "Mr. Biscuit / Biscuit" Trubisky
Aaron "Superman" Rodgers (I may have made this one up?)
Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson
Matt Harvey, The Dark Knight

That's all I got for now.
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Psycho T is one of my all time favorite nicknames. Other favorite Tar Heel related ones would be Air Canada (or Half Man Half Amazing or Vinsanity, he had a lot), Dancing Danny Green, and of course Air Jordan.
 
Stan Musial The Man
Willie McCovey stretch
Willie Stargell pops
Wayne Gretzky The great one
Wilt Chamberlain the stilt or the big dipper
Richard Petty the king
Dale Earnhardt the intimidator
Edward Charles Ford whitey
Edward Glenn Roberts fireball
Robert Glenn Johnson junior
 
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gunslingerdick said:
Boxing has the best nicknames without a doubt. My all time favorite is James "Lights Out" Toney.

Some other favorites are:

Evander "Real Deal" Holyfield
Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns (and later Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton)
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler
"Iron" Mike Tyson
Vitali "Dr. Ironfist" Klitschko
Wladimir "Dr. Steelhammer" Klitschko (for those of you that don't know, the Klitschko brothers have PhDs, thus "Dr.")
Apollo Creed - "The Count of Monte Fisto"
Lew Jenkins - "The Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater"
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Plus Mike "hercules' Weaver
 
always loved "the big fundamental" as a nickname

"the playmaker" michael irvin

ray "the blade" lewis (after his murder cover up)

"chocolate thunder" daryl dawkins

vinnie "the microwave" johnson
 
Joltin Joe Dimaggio
Wayne Monte "Tree" Rollins
Downtown Freddie Brown
Clyde "The Glide" Drexler
Down the Middle Tom Biddle (Dooley's nickname for one of his kickers in the early 1970's)
 
The big ticket - KG
The Truth - Paul Pierce (another Shaq nickname)
LeSean "Shady" McCoy
Johnny Football (Manziel)
Johnny Hockey (Gaudreau)
Walter Payton - "Sweetness"
Rod Smart "He Hate Me"
Pablo Sandoval - "Kung Fu Panda"
Kyrie Irving - "Uncle Drew"
 
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A couple of old NY Knicks Guards

Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe
 
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