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When a player is given a tough title is goes even crazier. The Minister of Defense is one of the toughest titles/ nicknames I’ve heard in my entire life
It goes insanely hard 🔥 Holmgren would pull Hasselbeck out of preseason games early in Green Bay because he didn't want him getting injured and then he became his longtime starter in Seattle. Mr. August actually has nothing to do with Hasselbeck's tenure in Seattle. It's not a negative nickname, he got that nickname because he had one really good preseason in Green Bay but there's no way he would ever get the start for the cheese heads over Mr. Foodstamp McFlopforStrahan.
What sucks is that I've only lived to see one of those units and nicknames for those are almost extinct. Last one that I can remember off the top of my head is Sacksonville
Those are reserved for all time great defensive units tho. Legion of Boom is the latest one and that’s very fitting, Sacksonville wasn’t bad either when they had their little run.
Can’t believe I’ve looked at those football reference pages for year without even noticing the goldmine of content you can find by looking at their nicknames
I was thinking he could be called “black magic” for all the games the chiefs have somehow won this year. Every one on the internet is already making memes about it
Shows how shitty the modern era of nicknames is if your favorite is one that has been recycled a million times for different people across different sports that have a name that can be rhymed with “sexy”.
@brianbadonde9251 can you please have a little bit of skepticism. I mean come on, is it not a little suspicious when a "victim" goes to social media before the police?
I will never forgive the NFL media for changing Greg Zuerlein's nickname from "Legatron", the greatest kicker nickname ever, to "Greg the Leg" which sucks.
There was this kid at my high school who went D1 in like 3 different sports and his quads were so massive we all called him quadzilla, and still haven’t heard a better leg related nickname since then
@@BAS9713dude the winter solider is hardddd. He plays great in the winter months and it’s a badass villain. That’s like Jalen Mills being called the green goblin. Go watch the winter soldier and you’ll see why it’s such a raw nickname
If you can't call the player by their nickname, it's a bad one. If you say Megatron or Prime Time, everyone knows who you're talking about. But if you call Allen the winter soldier, no one knows what you're saying.
@@clonecommandermike332well it's contextual... nobody is calling him that in September but come playoffs who doesn't know that? I'm not even a bills fan and I knew it easily
I do believe Dion Dawkins said that The Shnowman was a nickname that was given to him when he was younger and he fully embraced it when drafted by Buffalo because of how fitting it was.
I usually like nicknames that don't just make a pun or play off of their original name like Hitman, GEQBUS, Passtronaut, and All Day as examples for the Vikings, but Sun God, Run CMC, and Sexy Dexy are pretty good.
@@somerandomguy5977reading is hard for you ha? He was separating the last 3 as examples of ones that played on their real names but are still pretty cool
@@ydwatt8711 Ohhhh, it's supposed to rhyme. I never, never understood this nickname. It doesn't rhyme in my accent so I just thought it was a weird Brooklyn 99 reference or something.
It’ll never not piss me off that there are 2 all time great players in the HOF with the nickname LT that is just their first and last initials. How on Earth did we not come up with a better nickname for a guy with a name as awesome as LaDainian Tomlinson?! Especially since he played for the Chargers!
I agree. Perhaps Lawrence Taylor could be known as the Demon or maybe the Prince of fear. I know both are probably horrible, but since he's considered one of the scariest players in nfl history, I feel it fits.
This is very accurate with football in Europe as well. Nicknames used to be incredible, but there’s very few and now they’re usually just player’s initials and their number (CR7 for example).
@@Flying_Skier I mean, 'The GOAT' has stuck pretty well for Brady so I think he's doing fine on the nickname front. And before that he was pretty much always called him Tom Terrific. TB12 is his brand more than his nickname.
He Hate Me is the greatest self given nickname The best for bad nicknames were the Eagles duo of "Todd Stinkston and James Trash" and yeah The Peoples Champ, FredEx was on that team too.
Battleship Lorenzen (especially when he wore the gray at Kentucky) was one of my favs. Philly’s defensive backfield team of DeJean and Blankenship “the exciting whites” 😂
i think the need for a nickname directly correlates to how boring the player's actual name is. Like Calvin Johnson doesnt sound like the guy who did what Megatron did. I also think the lack of nicknames in modern football has to be related to the fact that players get 30 new ones every week on social media so none of them stick. I know ive seen Bo Nix get called like 45 different shitty puns this season alone.
How are you gonna come up with a better name than Bo Nix? Especially when you had the Bo Nix/Penix matchup in college football that year. People should know not to fly too close to the sun. (Although, if Penix pops off, he's definitely gonna get "The Penix Mightier" as a nickname.)
@@wolfiewiggins2810 True. Only reasoning behind this one is the relationship between the Mafia nickname and The Godfather. I see how it's not your usual nickname but it could catch on
Reddit has been calling Tua the Samoan Sniper for a few years now but I feel like it's inevitably gonna just give way to Hawk Tua or something about CTE. Also, you're the best NFL content creator on UA-cam dude. Been subbed for years.
It’s a falloff in pretty much every sport but hockey these days. And here’s why. 1. Radio having far less of a presence. Radio broadcasts, which exist as more descriptive or partisan, are a huge factor in giving players nicknames. That isn’t a big way that people listen to games anymore though. 2. Existing modern conventions. Nicknames just aren’t as common in the US anymore, people mostly want to be called by their given names. 3. Teams have better ways of drumming up interest. Nicknames in the old days were also used by the teams to provide attention to a player or a team. It’s all in the part of creating a personality, or an identity. If you asked, say, older Miami dolphins fans about defenses in their team’s history, they could easily tell you about the Killer B’s (because most of their defensive starters started with B) or the “No name” defense from the undefeated 17-0 season. If you asked Redskins fans about great offensive lines in team history, people already associate that with the “Hogs”. 4. Variety of media sources. With the amount of media we all have, nicknames have a very difficult time catching on because there’s no consensus. As opposed to back then there were fewer media sources. 5. More unique names. This one is just my opinion, but I think that because in today’s day and age there’s generally a lot more diversity in names, it’s not nearly as hard to differentiate from people. As opposed to back then when it was a lot less so.
As a lions fan, current nicknames like Legatron for Jake bates is 100% awesome, along with sonic and knuckles, and Waymo. Classics include megatron (obvious).
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I think Josh Allen's nickname of Fire God given to him by UTree is one of the most fire nicknames ever, pun genuinely not intended, and I like Mahomes' Showtime
Add it to the list of reasons I love being an Eagles fan. On our current roster we have: Slim Reaper / Skinny Batman, Swole Batman or my fav Megajawn, Kelce was Fat Batman btw, Cooper DeJawn, Quinyonamo Bay (or Quintanamo), Jake The Make, Baby Rhino (though he prefers Breadman) and best of all the many nicknames for our white safety Reed Blankenship: Ghost, Milk Check, Chalkins / Chalk Dawk, Exciting Whites / Secondairy (with DeJawn), Ed (always say the full name Ed Reed Blankenship), Pearl Thomas, Talcum Jenkins
I love this video, but every time I hear you say “they’re calling you jacked dude”, I keep expecting you to go full Hulk Hogan and talk about Doug Martin’s pythons and it makes me laugh every time
You forgot about AB naming himself “Super Gremlin” near the end of his flame out. Might even have topped Tony Toe Tap but apparently it is being forgotten in the wake of MBC.
What about the Giants former quarterback Daniel Jones. He went from Danny Dimes, to Danny turnovers, Danny picks and Danny Sacks. Before Colin Kaepernick was a civil rights activist, he played so bad in 2015 that he lost the starting job to Blaine Gabbert and people were calling him Colin Sackandpick.
One of my current favorite nicknames is in college. “The Godfather” for Dontay Corleone in Cincinnati has gotta be one of the current best, at least in college
Thank you so much for bringing this up. For the better part of a decade I've been discussing this with my buddy. Multiple 3 AM texts to him saying "Dude why aren't people called The Refrigerator?" Or "Remember that one throw away line "Galloping Gale carrying the mail? That's better than anything we've had in our lifetime."
Magic man for mahomes is funny since packers QB don majkowski, the starter before Favre, was called the magic man. Though they should have called him the Majik man imo
@ they were at practice talking about being called lightning and thunder but since it was overused they thought of sonic and knuckles, it says online it was their RB coach, but on Sunday night football the announcers said that one of them made it up themselves or something, still a sick ass nickname tho
I personally want Pat's lasting nickname to be "Grim Reaper" because the source goes so hard. I'm sure he heard it somewhere else first but "When things look grim, be the grim reaper" is such an incredible quote.
Going with my team, the Bills, we've had some good in the past. -the Juice for OJ Simpson -the Electric Company for the offensive lineman who blocked for OJ -not really a nick name, but when you say, "Bad things man," you know it's Dennis Hopper talking about Bruce Smith -Thermal for Thurman Thomas -FitzMagic/ FitzTragic for Ryan Fitzpatrick -Trentative Edwards was another for Trent Edwards A self given nickname that wasn't mentioned was JackRabbit for Jenoris Jenkins. Just out of the blue, in the middle of the season, every TV guy had to called him JackRabbit Jenkins. It was really weird.
Never forget about the Eli Apple being recognized as literally just pictures of burnt toast no name no initials you just know everything about him from the picture
@@LordEmperor421-1 Dude's name isn't 'Run'. It's clearly a nickname using his initials and it's great. To combine his name, job and a pop culture reference so neatly is pretty awesome.
YESSS OMG THANK YOU IVE BEEN SO BORED WITH NICKNAMES IN THE NFL RECENTLY I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY!!!!!!! something i wished you'd highlight is team nicknames, in the 2010s we had The Legion of Boom and the No Fly Zone, and the most recent i can remember since then is when Washington had a really good d-line for like one season and people were calling it Maroon 4, but I miss stuff like the K-Gun offense and the Purple People Eaters, seems like people aren't even trying anymore to give offenses or defenses names
I remember there was some push back on giving nicknames because of guys like Doug Martin hating "the muscle hamster." I think people for a time were more interested in getting unit/side of the ball names. Legion of Boom, Sacksonville, No Fly Zone were very romanticized. Of the 2010's, I loved the underlying ones like Damon "Snacks" Harrison, Kam "Bam Bam" Chancellor, Andy "The Red Rifle" Dalton. Those were fun. The ones I didn't like necessarily were ones players tried to give themselves or force. Antonio "Mr. Big Chest" Brown was a weird one. I was a Seattle fan and understood the idea, but Richard "Optimus Prime" Sherman was just silly. Alfred "The Butler" Morris was another one I didn't get. He got it because he was quiet and didn't miss a game yet did everything in the background was the reasoning. I know the RB position is a difficult one to suit up 16 (now 17) games in but it just felt like an odd one in a world where "The Muscle Hamster" existed. He wanted to be A-Train which was his nickname in college. Guess that's better then the Douggernaut or any of the nicknames Martin tried in order to leave Muscle Hamster behind.
We're just living in a society ruled by post-sincerity, a completely unironically extreme "cool" nickname like "night train" could never work because it just sounds ironic in todays world
The raiders have like an undefeated streak of great nicknames, the assassin Jack Tatum, Ken Stabler the snake, the mad stork Fred belitnikoff, Dave Casper the ghost, Skip Thomas Dr death, the tooz John matuszak, chucky John Gruden, Loose Gannon Rich Gannon, Lester Hayes the judge and his funnier nickname Lester the molester, Mad Maxx Crossby, three mile Lyle Alzado, the mummy Gene upshaw,
Yeah, there's been a leaguewide fallout for nicknames but luckily, The Steelers (my team) still have some good ones. You have NFL Youngboy (George Pickens), The Lion King (Cam Heyward), The Iron Horse (Najee Harris). Also this is unofficial since its just the announcer but he calls TJ "Obi Watt Kenobi" which I thought was really funny
It’s also weird bc it seems like it’s only the NFL that has this issue. My personal favorite with slight bias being a Columbus/Cleveland sports fan is Jhonkensy Noel AKA big Christmas.
I cannot tell you how many Saints fans were emotionally invested in Smoke Monday making the team in training camp last year solely because of the name. The name aura is real
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So is the fortress an underrated MVP level qb held back by Dallas negative media influence?
Set The Edge, "The Goldfish"
“Chubba missile crisis” was actually crazy we need more
Loved that one
Chubban Cigar
@@clonecommandermike332 thats actually really good but porbbaly wouldnt be accepted
It's a great nickname too because it helps people know how to pronounce his name
Great Barrier Thief
When a player is given a tough title is goes even crazier. The Minister of Defense is one of the toughest titles/ nicknames I’ve heard in my entire life
One of the few good things about Checo Perez’s career is that nickname
I didn't expect an F1 reference in a football video
Mr. August is insane
I lost my shit at that one
It goes insanely hard 🔥
Holmgren would pull Hasselbeck out of preseason games early in Green Bay because he didn't want him getting injured and then he became his longtime starter in Seattle. Mr. August actually has nothing to do with Hasselbeck's tenure in Seattle.
It's not a negative nickname, he got that nickname because he had one really good preseason in Green Bay but there's no way he would ever get the start for the cheese heads over Mr. Foodstamp McFlopforStrahan.
@@joejay4646 brett is still a hof best quarterback of all time.
Football also has lots of nicknames for specific units, too. Legion of Boom, Purple People Eaters, Steel Curtain, Greatest Show on Turf, etc.
What sucks is that I've only lived to see one of those units and nicknames for those are almost extinct. Last one that I can remember off the top of my head is Sacksonville
Grits Blitz
Killer B’s
Those are reserved for all time great defensive units tho. Legion of Boom is the latest one and that’s very fitting, Sacksonville wasn’t bad either when they had their little run.
Monsters of the Midway another classic
Sonic, Knuckles, and the Sun God is a decent lineup in Detroit
Jamo Jameson Williams too
Jared "Gosling" Goff
@clonecommandermike332 Yea but if you say Jared Goff really fast. You know what it sounds like.
Glad some one said it
I will never unsee jrk goff TY
Kenny “Kitten Mittens” Pickett
Can’t forget Kenny Picked Off!
The Pickler. And the related “Steelers Nation, let’s brine.”
Shout out to Barry McCockiner
Can’t believe I’ve looked at those football reference pages for year without even noticing the goldmine of content you can find by looking at their nicknames
Don't you know Mahomes nickname is Kermit the Frog?
Thats the first one I always think of
Why not Patrick ma home's been burglarized?
Mahomo
I was thinking he could be called “black magic” for all the games the chiefs have somehow won this year. Every one on the internet is already making memes about it
His nickname is mahomie
Sexy Dexy is my favorite of the modern ones
Shows how shitty the modern era of nicknames is if your favorite is one that has been recycled a million times for different people across different sports that have a name that can be rhymed with “sexy”.
He just got exposed for texting an underage girl lol. Let's not mention him right now
@brianbadonde9251 can you please have a little bit of skepticism. I mean come on, is it not a little suspicious when a "victim" goes to social media before the police?
Shit is corny 😂
One of my favorites is "Furious George" for George Karlaftis
THE GREEK FREAK
I will say, I call Mike Tolbert "The Perfectly Spherical Mike Tolbert" because of a Jon Bois video.
It truly could not be any more accurate. I've been doing the same since watching that lol
which job bois video out of curiosity?
the tolldozer 🐐
@@apheastrathe Dorktown episode about the 2010 Chargers
Nobody reads actually talented sports writers anymore. They just regurgitate something from social media.
Good nicknames came with good writers.
This
Poop Johnson is devious
All time legendary nicknames: “Beast mode”, “Megatron”, and most importantly, “The fortress”.
I will never forgive the NFL media for changing Greg Zuerlein's nickname from "Legatron", the greatest kicker nickname ever, to "Greg the Leg" which sucks.
yes but Jake Bates is the new Legatron
There was this kid at my high school who went D1 in like 3 different sports and his quads were so massive we all called him quadzilla, and still haven’t heard a better leg related nickname since then
Greg the peg leg
@LeanderFrei AJ Dillon on the Packers is also called Quadzilla btw
@@LeanderFrei The Quadfather
Pretty sure Josh Allen is “the winter soldier” which is one of the few awesome nicknames left
Agree
I don't even agree with that. I think that nickname is incredibly boring
@@BAS9713dude the winter solider is hardddd. He plays great in the winter months and it’s a badass villain. That’s like Jalen Mills being called the green goblin.
Go watch the winter soldier and you’ll see why it’s such a raw nickname
If you can't call the player by their nickname, it's a bad one. If you say Megatron or Prime Time, everyone knows who you're talking about. But if you call Allen the winter soldier, no one knows what you're saying.
@@clonecommandermike332well it's contextual... nobody is calling him that in September but come playoffs who doesn't know that? I'm not even a bills fan and I knew it easily
I do believe Dion Dawkins said that The Shnowman was a nickname that was given to him when he was younger and he fully embraced it when drafted by Buffalo because of how fitting it was.
Quintonimo bay is bringing us back
shoutout cooper dejawn too
Quinyonomo Bay works as well
Don't forget the exciting whites
Reed Blankenship and Cooper Dejean: the ku klux klamps
@@deliriousgeorge2879this is the best thing I’ve seen all day
I usually like nicknames that don't just make a pun or play off of their original name like Hitman, GEQBUS, Passtronaut, and All Day as examples for the Vikings, but Sun God, Run CMC, and Sexy Dexy are pretty good.
I hate the lazy ones that are just abbreviations of their first and last names.
Yes, clearly Run CMC isn't a play off of their original name... Except it is, both ways.
The passtronaut is crazy good, the hitman is a great fit too
I'm sorry I'm a sucker for puns,those are always my favorite :(
@@somerandomguy5977reading is hard for you ha? He was separating the last 3 as examples of ones that played on their real names but are still pretty cool
"Two greatest modern nicknames ever"
Goes on to not even mention Beast Mode which has at this point just become a pop culture iconic term
“Fatrick” is from his preseason picture when he looked a bit too heavy
I can at least offer up "Scary Terry"
Terry Rozier had it first
Rhyming nicknames are lazy and boring
@brianbadonde9251 didn't know that! makes total sense, there's a lot of terrys
@@ydwatt8711 eh, rhyming's always pretty catchy. one person's "lazy" is another person's "effective"
@@ydwatt8711 Ohhhh, it's supposed to rhyme. I never, never understood this nickname. It doesn't rhyme in my accent so I just thought it was a weird Brooklyn 99 reference or something.
You were cooking with Pat Mahomes nicknames, he should be the Prince of Pestilence
Just commented about that lol. Pestilence Pat, Famine Mahomes
Kermit
Cause of how sickening it is to watch them win every week.
I’ve always called him the Red Right Hand.
@@blahblahghostdamn just don't watch the nfl then
It’ll never not piss me off that there are 2 all time great players in the HOF with the nickname LT that is just their first and last initials.
How on Earth did we not come up with a better nickname for a guy with a name as awesome as LaDainian Tomlinson?! Especially since he played for the Chargers!
"THE CHARGEASAUR"!! ✌️🇺🇲
You mean LTning in a bottle?
I agree. Perhaps Lawrence Taylor could be known as the Demon or maybe the Prince of fear. I know both are probably horrible, but since he's considered one of the scariest players in nfl history, I feel it fits.
Because LaDainian Tomlinson already sounds like a nickname
He did it to himself
Chubba missile crisis is amazing
This is very accurate with football in Europe as well. Nicknames used to be incredible, but there’s very few and now they’re usually just player’s initials and their number (CR7 for example).
CR7 also lead to TB13 which sounds more like a tuberculosis variant than one of the best quarterbacks of all time. Exactly what he deserves.
@@Flying_Skier PG13 is the only acceptable initials + number nickname
@@Mokuteke CP3
@@clonecommandermike332 still not that cool it flows well yes but it’s has no cool factor. PG13 does cause that’s a rating for games and movies
@@Flying_Skier I mean, 'The GOAT' has stuck pretty well for Brady so I think he's doing fine on the nickname front. And before that he was pretty much always called him Tom Terrific. TB12 is his brand more than his nickname.
He Hate Me is the greatest self given nickname
The best for bad nicknames were the Eagles duo of "Todd Stinkston and James Trash" and yeah The Peoples Champ, FredEx was on that team too.
Battleship Lorenzen (especially when he wore the gray at Kentucky) was one of my favs.
Philly’s defensive backfield team of DeJean and Blankenship “the exciting whites” 😂
i think the need for a nickname directly correlates to how boring the player's actual name is. Like Calvin Johnson doesnt sound like the guy who did what Megatron did.
I also think the lack of nicknames in modern football has to be related to the fact that players get 30 new ones every week on social media so none of them stick. I know ive seen Bo Nix get called like 45 different shitty puns this season alone.
How are you gonna come up with a better name than Bo Nix? Especially when you had the Bo Nix/Penix matchup in college football that year. People should know not to fly too close to the sun.
(Although, if Penix pops off, he's definitely gonna get "The Penix Mightier" as a nickname.)
Have been calling Josh Allen "The Joshfather" due to Bills Mafia. Stupid but cool at the same time
No, just stupid
@brianbadonde9251 Who sucked the joy out of your life Brian?
@@markgutierrez7372naw he’s right that one just isn’t good
Only godfather nickname that was any good was quad father for Tom Platz
@@wolfiewiggins2810 True. Only reasoning behind this one is the relationship between the Mafia nickname and The Godfather. I see how it's not your usual nickname but it could catch on
Reddit has been calling Tua the Samoan Sniper for a few years now but I feel like it's inevitably gonna just give way to Hawk Tua or something about CTE.
Also, you're the best NFL content creator on UA-cam dude. Been subbed for years.
Tua might fight even harder than Martin if Hawk Tua becomes THE nickname for him
It's already gave way to hawk tua
Tua Turn Da Ball Over
Chronic Tuamatic encephalopathy
Tua many concussions
0:43 :2024 Patriots vs Commanders Preseason game. Drake Maye’s cleat falls off and the kid still completes the pass what a stud.
"The Minister of Defense" will probably forever be my favorite nickname. That shit hits different.
So fucking true, so many awesome nicknames during the 80s
We need to come up with nicknames for the worst players too. Guys like Kadarius Toney have played bad enough to earn it
Butterfingers has been floated
AmpuToney?
“The flu” because he never wants to catch
Kadariass?
My junior high school coach once branded one of our receivers who had come down with the dropsies as "Hands Like Feet."
Quinyonamo Bay🗣️
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this is a very important video
It’s a falloff in pretty much every sport but hockey these days. And here’s why.
1. Radio having far less of a presence. Radio broadcasts, which exist as more descriptive or partisan, are a huge factor in giving players nicknames. That isn’t a big way that people listen to games anymore though.
2. Existing modern conventions. Nicknames just aren’t as common in the US anymore, people mostly want to be called by their given names.
3. Teams have better ways of drumming up interest. Nicknames in the old days were also used by the teams to provide attention to a player or a team. It’s all in the part of creating a personality, or an identity. If you asked, say, older Miami dolphins fans about defenses in their team’s history, they could easily tell you about the Killer B’s (because most of their defensive starters started with B) or the “No name” defense from the undefeated 17-0 season. If you asked Redskins fans about great offensive lines in team history, people already associate that with the “Hogs”.
4. Variety of media sources. With the amount of media we all have, nicknames have a very difficult time catching on because there’s no consensus. As opposed to back then there were fewer media sources.
5. More unique names. This one is just my opinion, but I think that because in today’s day and age there’s generally a lot more diversity in names, it’s not nearly as hard to differentiate from people. As opposed to back then when it was a lot less so.
Hockey nicknames are kept alive by the players, back when I played everyone had one
@ yep. The culture is just different with nicknames it feels like in comparison to how we do it.
What great nicknames are in hockey these days?
As a lions fan, current nicknames like Legatron for Jake bates is 100% awesome, along with sonic and knuckles, and Waymo. Classics include megatron (obvious).
Legatron has gotten overused on kickers tho
@ bates deserves it. I think anyone that can make a 64 years kick with little difficulty has earned it
Bro he is 100% master bates
@@con277qqq This is the best one
Master bates*
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Tractorceto for Derick Henry is a sick nickname.
I think Josh Allen's nickname of Fire God given to him by UTree is one of the most fire nicknames ever, pun genuinely not intended, and I like Mahomes' Showtime
Mahomes is all ready rainted. He is ReffBoy. Or MaThrows
We should call Mahomes The Witch, because he gets so damn lucky there’s no way it isn’t black magic
@@y.e.e.t guys black magic is a joke. the fact that yall really believe it is sad af
Add it to the list of reasons I love being an Eagles fan. On our current roster we have: Slim Reaper / Skinny Batman, Swole Batman or my fav Megajawn, Kelce was Fat Batman btw,
Cooper DeJawn, Quinyonamo Bay (or Quintanamo), Jake The Make, Baby Rhino (though he prefers Breadman)
and best of all the many nicknames for our white safety Reed Blankenship: Ghost, Milk Check, Chalkins / Chalk Dawk, Exciting Whites / Secondairy (with DeJawn), Ed (always say the full name Ed Reed Blankenship), Pearl Thomas, Talcum Jenkins
Muscle Hamster is the GOAT of nicknames
How can we forget the Sun-God, Amon-Ra St. Brown?
That’s his actual name though
It's not really a nickname, it's just he has an incredible actual name.
I call him Akmanra because of the way he magically brings the team to life every night. (Night at the museum reference).
I call him Solaire ngl because "PRAISE THE SUN"
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This video had me dying! Great job, EdgeMaster!
I love this video, but every time I hear you say “they’re calling you jacked dude”, I keep expecting you to go full Hulk Hogan and talk about Doug Martin’s pythons and it makes me laugh every time
No mention of Shady McCoy is crazy
Chisled Adonis is carrying the nickname game
You forgot about AB naming himself “Super Gremlin” near the end of his flame out. Might even have topped Tony Toe Tap but apparently it is being forgotten in the wake of MBC.
Need more nicknames based off personality/emotion. Mean Joe Green and Angry Doug Baldwin are some of my favorites
What about the Giants former quarterback Daniel Jones. He went from Danny Dimes, to Danny turnovers, Danny picks and Danny Sacks. Before Colin Kaepernick was a civil rights activist, he played so bad in 2015 that he lost the starting job to Blaine Gabbert and people were calling him Colin Sackandpick.
Don’t forget the Vanilla Vick nickname for Daniel Jones
Danny derps from urinating tree is my default
Same here, @@offthegooppp
Me and my partner have been calling Joe Burrow “Joe Haircut” all season.
But Joe Shiesty is one of the few good nicknames left in the NFL.
@@iamthemanwithnoname6140 no
Last year I kept calling Desmond Ridder “Desmond Midder”
The problem here is he is far below mid lol
1:53 this is why Mr. Allen is Josh January.
Honey wake up set the edge just posted
Weapon X has to be my favorite nickname ever
One of my current favorite nicknames is in college. “The Godfather” for Dontay Corleone in Cincinnati has gotta be one of the current best, at least in college
Literally have no idea who that player is
Thank you so much for bringing this up. For the better part of a decade I've been discussing this with my buddy. Multiple 3 AM texts to him saying "Dude why aren't people called The Refrigerator?" Or "Remember that one throw away line "Galloping Gale carrying the mail? That's better than anything we've had in our lifetime."
This might be your greatest video to date, Jesus I was laughing
Magic man for mahomes is funny since packers QB don majkowski, the starter before Favre, was called the magic man. Though they should have called him the Majik man imo
There are old nfl films clips where Packer fans are holding signs that spell it majik
Baltimore Ravens back field. Derrick HENRY and Justice HILL. The Goodfellas!
Let's not be biased by nostalgia. The greatest rivalry in the early NFL was between two guys nicknamed "Curly" and "Papa Bear"
Mr. August is funny as hell
Jack Tatum Tho being called the Assassin
There is Sonic and Knuckles but they gave themself the nickname so it’s not the same, just like when Paul George gave himself PG13 and Playoff P
Nah didn’t it take off somewhere online?
@ they were at practice talking about being called lightning and thunder but since it was overused they thought of sonic and knuckles, it says online it was their RB coach, but on Sunday night football the announcers said that one of them made it up themselves or something, still a sick ass nickname tho
@@jake02ferguson Honestly fits really well though for their playstyles
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I personally want Pat's lasting nickname to be "Grim Reaper" because the source goes so hard. I'm sure he heard it somewhere else first but "When things look grim, be the grim reaper" is such an incredible quote.
Cmon bro. Beast Mode is legit.
Love niche football history like this. Never stop!
Everyone forgetting Quintanamo bay
Devonte Smith “Slim Reaper” I mean… that’s tough
Somewhere out in Phoenix, Kevin Durant is seething more than usual.
This is the type of sports content we all crave. Top tier content, no notes.
2:28 Yeah, we ALL Know What it truly is 😂
I ain’t gonna say it, but I do know it 😂😂
Dejean + Blankenship being the Secondairy is pretty goated
The buccaneers superbowl winning secondary called themselves thw gravediggers
Going with my team, the Bills, we've had some good in the past.
-the Juice for OJ Simpson
-the Electric Company for the offensive lineman who blocked for OJ
-not really a nick name, but when you say, "Bad things man," you know it's Dennis Hopper talking about Bruce Smith
-Thermal for Thurman Thomas
-FitzMagic/ FitzTragic for Ryan Fitzpatrick
-Trentative Edwards was another for Trent Edwards
A self given nickname that wasn't mentioned was JackRabbit for Jenoris Jenkins. Just out of the blue, in the middle of the season, every TV guy had to called him JackRabbit Jenkins. It was really weird.
WHY IS THIS VIDEO SO FUNNY DUDE💀
Never forget about the Eli Apple being recognized as literally just pictures of burnt toast no name no initials you just know everything about him from the picture
Run CMC automatically invalidates this entire video lmao
always thought that name was more corny than good
That's not a nickname, that's just his initials.
Sonic & Knuckles I found to be creative
Corny ass dumb nickname
@@LordEmperor421-1 Dude's name isn't 'Run'. It's clearly a nickname using his initials and it's great. To combine his name, job and a pop culture reference so neatly is pretty awesome.
YESSS OMG THANK YOU IVE BEEN SO BORED WITH NICKNAMES IN THE NFL RECENTLY I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY!!!!!!! something i wished you'd highlight is team nicknames, in the 2010s we had The Legion of Boom and the No Fly Zone, and the most recent i can remember since then is when Washington had a really good d-line for like one season and people were calling it Maroon 4, but I miss stuff like the K-Gun offense and the Purple People Eaters, seems like people aren't even trying anymore to give offenses or defenses names
Been calling Drake Maye the Mayeflower all season. He brought with him hope to New England 🙏
I remember there was some push back on giving nicknames because of guys like Doug Martin hating "the muscle hamster."
I think people for a time were more interested in getting unit/side of the ball names. Legion of Boom, Sacksonville, No Fly Zone were very romanticized.
Of the 2010's, I loved the underlying ones like Damon "Snacks" Harrison, Kam "Bam Bam" Chancellor, Andy "The Red Rifle" Dalton. Those were fun. The ones I didn't like necessarily were ones players tried to give themselves or force. Antonio "Mr. Big Chest" Brown was a weird one. I was a Seattle fan and understood the idea, but Richard "Optimus Prime" Sherman was just silly. Alfred "The Butler" Morris was another one I didn't get. He got it because he was quiet and didn't miss a game yet did everything in the background was the reasoning. I know the RB position is a difficult one to suit up 16 (now 17) games in but it just felt like an odd one in a world where "The Muscle Hamster" existed. He wanted to be A-Train which was his nickname in college. Guess that's better then the Douggernaut or any of the nicknames Martin tried in order to leave Muscle Hamster behind.
Can't forget Trevor Lawrences page that says "The Prince who was Promised"
what an awful missed opportunity that they don't call him Jalen "The Truth" Hurts.
So many eagles left off the list. Weapon x, "shady" mccoy...😢
Hatchet Man, Axe Man, FredEx,
We're just living in a society ruled by post-sincerity, a completely unironically extreme "cool" nickname like "night train" could never work because it just sounds ironic in todays world
The raiders have like an undefeated streak of great nicknames, the assassin Jack Tatum, Ken Stabler the snake, the mad stork Fred belitnikoff, Dave Casper the ghost, Skip Thomas Dr death, the tooz John matuszak, chucky John Gruden, Loose Gannon Rich Gannon, Lester Hayes the judge and his funnier nickname Lester the molester, Mad Maxx Crossby, three mile Lyle Alzado, the mummy Gene upshaw,
Oh yeah and big Brahma art shell
And the mad bomber Daryl lamonica
Oh and Ronnie Lott hitman but he’s known more for his career with the niners
George “the hitman” atkinson
Hol up instrumental on the ad read goes nuts my friend
Yeah, there's been a leaguewide fallout for nicknames but luckily, The Steelers (my team) still have some good ones. You have NFL Youngboy (George Pickens), The Lion King (Cam Heyward), The Iron Horse (Najee Harris). Also this is unofficial since its just the announcer but he calls TJ "Obi Watt Kenobi" which I thought was really funny
The Wizard of Boz!
He went through the whole Big thing in the video and didn't mention Big Ben, which is hard to ignore lol
Sonic and Knuckles are easily the best of 2024. They even wore Sonic & Knuckles themed cleats on Thanksgiving which was just too cool
0:38 Hi, I'm Tom Brady, welcome to Jackass
This comment made eye contact with me the same time Tom did
Seeing these nicknames while compiling stats for FF was an adventure in its own right
The Winter Soldier for Josh Allen is great
It’s also weird bc it seems like it’s only the NFL that has this issue.
My personal favorite with slight bias being a Columbus/Cleveland sports fan is Jhonkensy Noel AKA big Christmas.
Could just be me being a Bills fan but Winter Soldier for JA is pretty cool. Hate Mr. January tho.
I cannot tell you how many Saints fans were emotionally invested in Smoke Monday making the team in training camp last year solely because of the name. The name aura is real
Well at least you got Kool-Aid Mckinstry this year
10:40 that was beautiful
GET OUT
The nickname crisis is the sportswriter crisis