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Sportsmen's names

Postby huw williams » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:14 pm

Don't ask me why but I recently had to do some research on sportsmen with ridiculous names - you'll notice some gems if you look at the Americans on the leader-board for the British open.

Anyway here you go - these are all real people performing at high levels in their chosen sports

Harry Colon
Dick Trickle
Dick Pole
Chubby Cox
Fair Hooker
Dick Curl
Ron Tugnutt
Coco Crisp
George Shorthose
Larry Playfair
Pete LaCock
Johnny Dickshot

Without forgetting the one and only
Rusty Kuntz
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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby Snoop Doug » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:25 pm

Excellent thanks!! Boy, I needed a laugh today.

Fuund a couple more oddballs:

God Shammgod (basket ball player)
Majestic Mapp (same again)
Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway, named by his parents after the entire QPR 1973 first-team squad :shock:

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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby MJ_1993 » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:31 pm

Neil de Kock - sarries no. 9
rory cockett - sharks no. 9
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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby Snoop Doug » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:53 pm

Argelico "Argel" roger (born 4 September 1974 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul) is a Brazilian professional footballer. roger played his trade in his homeland as well as Japan, Portugal and Spain. He won the Rio Grande do Sul State league, the Brazilian cup, the Brazilian champions cup, the Conmebol Cup plus the Portuguese league, cup and Supercup. He also represented Brazil internationally at the Under-20 level winning both the South American Championship and the Youth World Cup.

In his years playing in Brazil, he earned a reputation of being a dirty player. Among other things, he was accused of wearing rings as a weapon to hurt his rivals, he had four sending-offs on ten games while playing for Santos, and a particularly rough game while marking Boca Juniors' Juan Román Riquelme, playing for Palmeiras, at 2001 Libertadores Cup. In the game, Palmeiras lost on penalties, being eliminated from the tournament.

Some of roger' fame stems from his surname which is identical to both the plural noun form and to the (singular third-person) present indicative verb form of the vulgar English word "roger". This has led to a variety of double entendre headlines including one from Eurosport.com titled "Argel roger off to Benfica". This headline received press coverage itself with The Register calling it "snappy and eye-catching" and football humour site Laugh FC deeming it "one of the all time greats".

However the name has not always been regarded as such a laughing matter. In an article on the J-League, Andrew McKirdy noted that the signing of roger was a poor move and that his name "could never do much for anyone's credibility anyways".
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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby Mike I » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:19 pm

Bum Suk - Korean footballer
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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby Andrew G » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:23 pm

Very good. No place for French rugby player Johnie Condom though?
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Re: Sportsmen's names

Postby adrian » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:55 pm

Euro 2008 was a great shop window for players, but I can't help feeling that Yuri Zhirkov will struggle to be taken seriously in Anglophone countries.
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