Coolest nickname for fans? Coolest fan nickname that should be used but isn't?

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I suspect there is a thread or two on this:

Grateful Dead - Deadheads
Jimmy Buffect - Parrot Heads
Firefly/Serenity - Browncoats
Star Trek - Trekkers (or Trekkies, but it is my understanding that Trekker is preferred)
Red Sox - Red Sox Nation

Which fan base has the coolest name? How in the heck do these names get into popular usage anyway?

Share your nominations and any background how on that name got coined or made popular…

…oh - and if he has such a big following, how come I never hear that Springsteen’s fans have a nickname for themselves? Have I just not heard it?

Who else’s fans should have a nickname but don’t - what should their nickname be? Don’t be mean - no need to slam anything here. I would prefer it if the person suggesting a nickname counts themselves as a member of that fanbase…

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Firefly fans are also called “Flans” – all because of Nathan Fillion misspeaking during an interview. It amuses me greatly.

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I’m not a Cleveland Browns fan, but I think “The Dawg Pound” is pretty cool.

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A lot of Allman Brothers fans refer to themselves as “Peachheads”.

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Rent has RENTHeads and Phantom of the Opera has Phans (though I think of them as POTatOHEADS).

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I’ve always hated the diminutive term for the ladies auxillary of whatever. Like the Lady Orioles or whatnot. Thankfully, our local boys didn’t go that route and call their cheerleaders the Swashbucklers. I deeply, deeply wish that the cheerleaders for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Bucs) were the Buc-ettes.

OT: Rabid, over-everything, drunk, aging male fans of the University of Florida are Bull Gators. (BuHl Gatahz, if you are a native.)

Aren’t folks from the Florida Keys called Conchs?

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Weren’t X-Files fans called X-philes? I guess that only really works in print, but I always thought it was clever. To the OP: I am not a member of that fanbase. I’m not sure I’m a member of any fanbase that has a nickname. People who like air-cooled cars sometimes call themselves “airheads”, but since I’m not as rabid about it as your average airhead, I don’t apply the term to myself.

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Richard Thompson fans: Dickheads

Mike Keneally fans: Forheads (after his band Beer For Dolphins)

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Air-cooled motorcycles as well – I love my “Airheads, Simple by Choice” T-shirt.

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Sometimes it just feels like Jersians for the ‘Boss’. :wink:

I note you did not include ‘Cheeseheads’, which is good, as that would be the uncoolist nickname for a fan base.

BTW: Trekkies appear to be cranky older fans that only like the original series & movies (like me).

A specific subset of Yankee fans are the “Bleacher Creatures”. Very cool.

Jim

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Barry Manilow fans= Fanilows

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Springsteen fans are known as Tramps. As in “tramps like us, baby we were born to run.”

::horribly sad that I sold my tickets for Wednesday’s show in Pittsburgh::

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I’m a 25 year old Trekkie that hates Star Trek and I can’t recall anyone that’s ever told me they prefer to be called a Trekker.

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Followers of Widespread Panic call themselves Spreadheads, which is the only name I can think of that hasn’t already been mentioned.

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Its weird and totally not PC, but while Trekkie was geeky and I never minded it, Trekker always sounded gay to me. :wink:

I haven’t been to a convention since 1987 and we were still mainly Trekkies way back then. I thought Trekkers seem to come along with Next Generation.

Jim

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Gary Numan - Numanoids! :slight_smile:

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It might have been the case during the early years of TNG but I got into Trek around '93 and spent the following ten years heavily involved in the fandom and never once met anyone that said they were a Trekker and not a Trekkie, though I pretended to a couple times, just to screw with people.

I think it’s like “Beam Me Up, Scotty”. A phrase or term everyone “knows” about Trek but was never actually said or commonly used.

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“Culture Vulture”, a fan of the Culture books by Iain M. Banks.

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I’ve heard Tom Waits fans called “Rain Dogs,” after the 1985 album that might be his best one ever. He has said that Rain Dogs refer to dogs who lose track of their familiar smells when it rains very hard, and can’t find their way back home.

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I’ve got a Dick Dale T-shirt that says “I’m a Dickhead”. I rarely wear it.