emmitt

8/22/2007 6:33:59 PM

Emmitt is a good one

and how did I and everyone else forget about Deion?

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 6:35 PM. Reason : x]

8/22/2007 6:35:20 PM

I was thinking no for deion right now because of branch

8/22/2007 6:38:32 PM

yeah but Deion Branch is to Deion Sanders as Pedro Gomez is to Pedro Martinez

8/22/2007 6:41:02 PM

lol, if you say Deion, people know who you are talking about, its Deion Sanders. This shouldn't even be a fucking issue.

8/22/2007 6:43:18 PM

they call him Neon Deion or Primetime

Dionne Warwick is pissed at yall

8/22/2007 7:08:15 PM

Dice-K is on his way up in popularity...

Most people in this area would know J.J.

Albert Pujols is almost there but his last name is too unique.

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 7:52 PM. Reason : Haha nobody has said T.O. or Donovan ]

8/22/2007 7:50:47 PM

Pujols is "almost there"??

You say the name Pujols and every sports fan knows instantly who you are referring to. So how is he "almost" there?

8/22/2007 7:53:59 PM

The thread is FIRST name basis...

Jesus you really are an idiot.

8/22/2007 7:55:56 PM

Pujols is his first name you moron. He just goes by it like Ichiro.

8/22/2007 7:58:45 PM

Bo

I call BS on

Quote :

"Pedro Dontrelle Baron Manny Magglio Coco Ozzie"

I'm guessing that most of these are baseball losers.

8/22/2007 7:59:08 PM

^^I really hope you are joking.

I am the biggest Cardinals fan on here

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 8:00 PM. Reason : ^I think Baron would be Davis so not baseball]

8/22/2007 8:00:05 PM

^^yeah Baron Davis is a "baseball loser"

and NOBODY has ever heard of Ozzie Smith

8/22/2007 8:01:48 PM

^, ^^ "most" and the point stands. Baron Davis is not well known


andre (the giant)

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 8:04 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2007 8:04:14 PM

Andre Dawson and Andre Agassi disagree with a fake wrestler...

FYI Andre the Giant lived on a ranch in Ellerbe, NC before he died.

8/22/2007 8:06:22 PM

Ozzie and Coco are def NO's

same with Vlad)amir i have no idea who that is

and im assuming Baron is Baron Davis?

i think thats a def NO as well

also Dontrelle

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 8:08 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2007 8:06:27 PM

A necessary criteria for basketball players is they have to have a shoe named after them.

8/22/2007 8:11:33 PM

Quote :

"Michael Thompson"

i assume you mean jordan? who refers to him as michael?


thompson who?

and ozzie guillen was a great player and won a world seres as a manager, plus he is on SC allll the time b/c he is a loudmouth

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:05 PM. Reason : a]

8/22/2007 9:05:12 PM

bronko
cal
mickey
gale ?
champ
torry (although nobody really calls him "torry" outside of raleigh)
rogers
ty
cy
mariano
red (only coach i can think of)
amare
gilbert
julius
chales ?
elgin
moses
lute (another coach)
adolph (no not that adolph, although this one is supposedly racist too)
deam (DAMNIT!)
vince, maybe


[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:18 PM. Reason : dr j]

Quote :

"Arnold Jack Phil Freddy"

i think Jacksn is known as Phil too

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:23 PM. Reason : mo]

8/22/2007 9:16:46 PM

Fedor

8/22/2007 9:22:17 PM

Penny

8/22/2007 9:23:29 PM

hank
sparky
yogi
wade (if they know you are tlakingfirst names i guess)


[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:25 PM. Reason : a]

roberto
rollie
whitey
goose
catfish


[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:28 PM. Reason : a]

8/22/2007 9:24:16 PM

Quote :

"vince"

Young, Carter

Quote :

"ty"

Cobb, Law

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:28 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2007 9:27:47 PM

yea i was talking about carter and cobb, but i guess i see your point

satchel
gaylord (haha gaylord, i have his hancock...haha hancock)
kirby
nolan
honus


[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:31 PM. Reason : a]

troy
jaromir (for the hockey guys)

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:34 PM. Reason : a]

8/22/2007 9:30:12 PM

^aikman, polamalu, smith

no one is going to call aikman just "troy"

8/22/2007 9:38:56 PM

Michael.
Tiger.
Peyton.
Kobe.
God.
Oscar. (maybe a stretch)
Ozzie.
Daisuke.
Dale.
Freddy.
Ayrton. (it is in my sport if no one else knows)

8/22/2007 9:40:48 PM

Quote :

"Michael."

no, there are way too many.

Quote :

"Oscar."

De La Hoya? Robertson?

8/22/2007 9:44:12 PM

^^most of those have already been discussed


freddy couples?
arent there 3 dales in nascar alone?
i thought oscar initially but de la hoya has been too popular recently for people to know you mean the big o

8/22/2007 9:45:50 PM

^ I meant de la Hoya, so if you actually meant Robertson it doesn't work.

Michael Jordan will always be referred to as Michael. There are a lot but he's the one.

Quote :

"freddy couples?"

Adu. He's always called just "Freddy".

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 9:51 PM. Reason : /]

8/22/2007 9:51:06 PM

michael jordan will always me known as "jordan"

adu hasnt even done anything other than sign young has he?


beside, on the first page somebody mentioned "freddy" and i'm almost sure he meant couples so...

8/22/2007 9:53:56 PM

has Annika been said yet?

8/22/2007 11:10:59 PM

I thought Couples went by "Fred"?

^ That's a good one.

Was Barack or Hillary ever athletes?

8/22/2007 11:25:09 PM

"Rafa"?
Bjorn
Boris?
Pete (just because i cant think of any other pete's right now..)
Rod?
Ivan?
Stefan
Arthur
Stan
Lleyton
Marat
Billie Jean?

8/22/2007 11:25:35 PM

Oil Can

8/22/2007 11:27:03 PM

Quote :

"Rafa"? Bjorn Boris? Pete (just because i cant think of any other pete's right now..) Rod? Ivan? Stefan Arthur Stan Lleyton Marat Billie Jean?"

people don't call most of those by their first names usually (except maybe pete and "rafa"). if you say "billie jean" in reference to sports of course people know who you're talking about, but you usually hear people say her whole name. martina and andre are notable exceptions. lleyton might also fit on their.

8/22/2007 11:37:13 PM

Boris is the russian motherfucker from Goldeneye
Ivan is the russian motherfucker from Rocky
Stan is an eminem song
Billie Jean is a Michael Jackson song


The rest don't really work...go into a sports bar and be like "How bout that Pete?"

8/22/2007 11:42:41 PM

^none of those are athletes... read thread title

[Edited on August 22, 2007 at 11:51 PM. Reason : nevermind.. you created the thread..but my point stands]

8/22/2007 11:49:27 PM

read thread creator...I made the motherfucker

and I know none of those are athletes...but those are the people who come to mind when I hear those names, making the tennis players with said names NOT known on a true first-name basis

8/22/2007 11:51:52 PM

Quote :

"bronko cal agreed mickey definitely mantle, agreed again gale ? champ agreed torry (although nobody really calls him "torry" outside of raleigh) rogers ty cy mariano good one red (only coach i can think of) amare another good one gilbert julius chales ? elgin not famous nowadays but what other elgins are there besides Baylor? moses haha i know all these old black dudes that are like "moses malone is the greatest basketball player of all time" lute (another coach) adolph (no not that adolph, although this one is supposedly racist too) deam (DAMNIT!) vince, maybe ever since the Texas/USC game carter is not the only big name vince but i'd agree a few years ago "

also fwiw i agree with most of those but not necessarily from a "everyone agrees with most of those" perspective


[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 12:16 AM. Reason : .]

8/23/2007 12:14:59 AM

Barry?

8/23/2007 4:46:08 AM

sanders? bonds?

8/23/2007 8:38:48 AM

Quote :

"Boris is the russian motherfucker from Goldeneye Ivan is the russian motherfucker from Rocky Stan is an eminem song Billie Jean is a Michael Jackson song "

shit i guess i didnt read the topic well enough, i didnt realize you were doing dumb shit like that\


segio - garcia? leone?
isiah - thomas? washington?
pacman - pacman is a video game
vladamir - the russian czar? dracula?
eli - roth? whitney? manning?
coco - cabana?
pedro - the guy from napolean dynamite

8/23/2007 8:46:03 AM

Quote :

"isiah - thomas? washington? "

haha wtf are you some kind of FAGGOT

8/23/2007 11:30:20 AM

totally

i totally love dudes

[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 6:48 PM. Reason : btw i totally win this thread, too]

8/23/2007 6:48:07 PM

what Ozzie does everyone keep referring to?

8/23/2007 8:05:04 PM

^ Ozzie Smith man....others or the young uns are going for Ozzie Guillen I guess?

Quote :

"RoyalFlush All American 662 Posts user info edit post Pujols is his first name you moron. He just goes by it like Ichiro. 8/22/2007 7:58:45 PM"

Haha that needed to be posted again. I think RoyalFlush is just a dumbass.

8/23/2007 8:22:04 PM

Boris????

Said?? Becker??

8/23/2007 8:30:41 PM

Quote :

"it seems like black parents can make up names at will while us Anglos are limited to a predetermined set of names with little room for variation."

that made me chuckle

8/23/2007 8:47:22 PM

^^ diaw?

8/23/2007 10:43:39 PM