# What's the weirdest or funniest name in sports? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 20, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503 "2009-10-20T17:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/21 "2009-10-20T18:58:26Z")
[Van Lingle Mungo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Lingle_Mungo). Even had a [song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5GtIhgDy-c) written about him. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/22 "2009-10-20T18:58:57Z")
Picabo (pronounced Peekaboo) Street. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/23 "2009-10-20T19:16:49Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > I wonder what’s the longest last name they’ve ever fit on the back of a jersey? Roethlisberger (14 letters) is the longest I can think of. Back when I was a kid there was a player for one of the Big Ten teams- Wisconsin, I think- whose last name was DiFeliciantonio. 15 letters. It was on his jersey. You know how Brazilian soccer players go by one name? There’s one named Fred. That’s it, just Fred. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/24 "2009-10-20T19:20:16Z")
Plaxico! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/25 "2009-10-20T19:21:53Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > The Atlanta Braves’ Jarrod Saltalamacchia has him tied. He’s been a Ranger for a couple of seasons now. Oddibe McDowell got halfway there. Not good enough in this crowd though. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/26 "2009-10-20T19:23:27Z")
Albert Poo-Holes (Pujols). ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/27 "2009-10-20T19:25:22Z")
Albert Pujols Vicki Kraphol (Duke basketball player) Yes, I do have a juvenile sense of humor. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/28 "2009-10-20T19:25:42Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > He’s been a Ranger for a couple of seasons now. Well shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/29 "2009-10-20T19:33:20Z")
> [@bup](#): > > The best punchline to an unwritten baseball joke is, “One’s a Big Unit, the other one’s a Randy Johnson.” Dear Og. I’ve known about Randy Johnson for over a decade but until the moment I read this it had never occurred to me that his _real_ name _also_ had a hilarious penis-related meaning. I don’t know how it escaped me all these years. Thank you for putting it all in perspective. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/30 "2009-10-20T19:39:27Z")
Another BB player was Majestic Mapp , his brother was Scientific Mapp. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/31 "2009-10-20T19:49:51Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Another BB player was Majestic Mapp , his brother was Scientific Mapp. [Yep](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11683920&postcount=8). ---
**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/32 "2009-10-20T19:52:56Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > God Shamgod was a college BB player. It’s even better than that: God Shammgod played for Providence! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/33 "2009-10-20T19:54:20Z")
As a kid I remember telling my dad that I had a baseball card for Jesus. (Alou) He told me it wasn’t Jesus, it was pronounced Hey Zooz. 🙂 UNC had a FB coach named Dick Crum. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/34 "2009-10-20T19:57:51Z")
Florida’s football team once had a defensive player whose first name was Ephesians. I mean, of all the Biblical names that could have been picked … Ephesians? I guess he should feel fortunate that he wasn’t named 2 Thessalonians or something. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/35 "2009-10-20T19:58:49Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Three of the four Alou brothers had normal names (Felipe, Matty, and Jesus), but the fourth, Boog, had to change his last name to Powell because everyone always laughed at him when he was announced. Wow, he looks so much different!!! [http://www.myboogpages.com/about-me/real-boog](http://www.myboogpages.com/about-me/real-boog) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/36 "2009-10-20T20:06:26Z")
Not a strange name, but the Portland Trailblazers had 3 guys name Robinson on their team in 95-96. Rumeal, Clifford and James - out of 12 guys. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/37 "2009-10-20T20:09:55Z")
People like to make fun of my man Asdrubal Cabrera’s name. “Ass-dribble!” hahaha aren’t you clever? _sigh_ (He plays for the Cleveland Indians, if you didn’t know) ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/38 "2009-10-20T20:28:41Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > Wow, he looks so much different!!! [http://www.myboogpages.com/about-me/real-boog](http://www.myboogpages.com/about-me/real-boog) There were some rumors about a Welsh gardener, but the family never deigned to notice. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/39 "2009-10-20T20:28:48Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#): > > You know how Brazilian soccer players go by one name? There’s one named Fred. That’s it, just Fred. Yeah, I don’t get that. There’s one named Kaká. Caca is Spanish for “shit.” 😕 \*And yes, I know that Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503/40 "2009-10-20T20:30:03Z")
The Cleveland Browns briefly had a player named [Ben Gay](http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Ben_Gay). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-or-funniest-name-in-sports/514503.md?page=3)