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[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

This may be old news, but I just saw this on pre-season football.  I swear, the only thing that interests me about football is the crap that people have named their kids.  I have to say congratulations to Atari Bigby for overcoming a ridiculous name and becoming (from what I'm hearing) a decent football player.

What are some of your favorite awfully-named sports players?

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[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Caleb Bushyhead

[lisasimpsonfan.livejournal.com]

I kinda like Atari. I have such good memories attached to my first Atari 2600 and think it's kinda a cool name plus he could always go by Art.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Milton Bradley, baseball player. Like the board game company.

My dad and I love Rams football players with crazy last names, like Brandon Monumaleuna and James Laurenaitis. The first one sounds like a Hawaiian volcano and the second sounds like a medical condition, and I love them both.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

His parents admitted that it was after the board game company?

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Coco Crisp!

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

No.

No...

REALLY?!

[heyskeleton.livejournal.com]

Stirling Mortlock. He's an Australian rugby union player. Whenever I hear it, I laugh because for some reason, it makes me think of wine. "Have you tried the Stirling Mortlock? It's got a great, fruity bouquet."

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

I totally agree!

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

No, I just added that in case people didn't catch the reference. But it's entirely possible.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Oohhhh, okay. I was going to say that's pretty effed if his parents are openly admitting that they named their kid after such a thing but I am sure that people have asked in the past.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I recently met a guy on a dating site whose real name is Jordan Almond. I was like "That is ridiculous and awesome!!!" :D
He joked that if he has a daughter, he will call her Joy.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

(at least... I THINK he was joking)

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Well... I guess you have to give him credit for having a sense of humor about the whole thing but I really hope he doesn't do that to his poor kid.

[liltxangel83.livejournal.com]

It's a nickname. His real name is Covelli Loyce Crisp.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Jeez. I think I'd rather be called Coco.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Jimmer Fredette.

[bingybingy.livejournal.com]

I admit that I love Atari Bigby in a guilty pleaure kind of way. It's perfect together. I think it's a very awesome name. It only works with the 2 names together. Atari Smith just sounds stupid.

D'brickashaw Ferguson
Plaxico Burress
Colt McCoy
Takeo Spikes
Early Doucet
Captain Munnerlyn (for the longest time I thought they were saying Captain Motherland)

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Is that DUH-brick-ah-shah?

[bingybingy.livejournal.com]

DUH-brick-ah-shaw

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Definitely BenJarvus Green-Ellis. When he was on the Patriots, they jokingly referred to him as Law Firm.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. What is so wrong with Joy Almond? Am I missing something?

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

In roll call in school, her name would be listed Almond, Joy.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

... I still don't get it *nervous laughter*

[virtue.livejournal.com]

Almond Joy is a chocolate bar in the US :) I had to google it!

& also the male equivalent of a camel toe apparently?! LOL.

[charuby.livejournal.com]

Now it all makes sense. I've never heard of an Almond Joy chocolate bar. Should have Googled! And eww!

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Because it would be like almond joy, the candy bar. Just... backwards.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't realize it was something that people from other places may not be familiar with, or I'd have said "like the candy bar."

And seriously?! The male equivalent to a camel toe? Oh my. Let's hope he does NOT do this to a little girl. lmao.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Colt McCoy sounds terrific. Like a sexy cowboy who's going to come snatch me away, and we're going to ride off into the sunset on his horse. Like one of those sexy shirtless guys on those smutty romance novels. Rawr.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

That's a new one for me. I've never heard that it was also the male equivalent to a camel toe. That's... gross.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Well, since I am really really immature and fairly inappropriate, I am probably going to make random comments about almond joys at work on Sunday, when I work with my manager who I talk ridiculously inappropriately to anyway.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

At least this new information will come handy somehow!

[belatedlove.livejournal.com]

Steele Sidebottom is always going to be the worst name in AFL, if not all sport.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Holy WHAT?!

[belatedlove.livejournal.com]

Yup! As if he wouldn't get enough shit for that as it is, he also plays for Collingwood. q:

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing. This is just too much.

[taleofaredhead.livejournal.com]

Samsies.