Don't like what your parents named you?

[Mr. Scot]

Could be worse.

 

The 25 most inappropriate athlete names in sports history

 

In order...

 

25. God Shammgod, NBA

24. Dick Pulloff, soccer (ouch)
23. Assol Silvets, women's skiing

22. Johnny Dickshot, MLB

21. Kim Yoo-Suk, track and field

20. Coco Crisp, MLB

19. Angel Pagan, MLB

18. Yoshie Takeshita, women's volleyball

17. Kosuke Fukudome, MLB

16. Dick Pole, MLB

15. Kokain Mothershead, college football (seriously mom?)

14. Craphonso Thorpe, NFL

13. Ron Tugnutt, NHL

12. Harry Colon, NFL

11. Karen Cockburn, women's gymnastics (double ouch)

10. Fair Hooker, NFL

09. B J Lovett, college football

08. Dick Butkus, NFL (oh, come on; Butkus?)

07. Lucious Pusey, college football

06. Dick Shiner, NFL

05. Guy Whimper, NFL

04. Pete LaCock, MLB

03. Grant Balfour, MLB (because he's a pitcher named "Grant Ball Four"; yeah, it's lame)

02. Rusty Kuntz, MLB

01. Dick Trickle, NASCAR

 

Wonder if Ha Ha Clinton-Dix will make a future version of this list.

 

Other names listed in the comments.

 

Destinee Hooker, women's volleyball (relation to Fair, unknown)

Misty Hyman, women's swimming

Gregor fuga, basketball (filters ate that one; yes it's spelled like you think it is)

Miroslav Satan, NHL

Fonda Dicks, girls high school basketball (would you have made it through high school with that name?)

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

God Shammgod is a legend at Providence College. As far as I am concerned that is the best name in sports history. 

[Mr. Scot]

A couple of historical references.

 

Apparently some years back in baseball there were two German players who faced off against each other named Jim Gott and Tim Teuful.  this is meaningful because 'Gott" and "Teufel" are the German words for "God' and "Devil".  From what I've read, "God" dominated the matchup.

 

There's also a (possibly apocryphal) story about a headline written 41 years ago - purportedly by a young Lewis Grizzard - detailing the fact that the Georgia Bulldogs would be playing the South Carolina Gamecocks without their starting middle linebacker, a fellow by the name of Happy Dicks.  This event allowed Grizzard to write the following headline for the college newspaper:

 

"Dogs to play Cocks with Dicks out" :blink:

 

(now there's a game I'm happy to have missed) :unsure:

 

 

[Ghost of Steve Smith]

Dick Trickle blew his own head off.

[KSpan]

I went to a baseball academy for a couple of years and was coached by Pete LaCock and some other ex-MLB players. Pete's a good guy who could definitely take the ribbing that undoubtedly came his way via his name and dish it back two-fold.

[Mr. Scot]

I went to a baseball academy for a couple of years and was coached by Pete LaCock and some other ex-MLB players. Pete's a good guy who could definitely take the ribbing that undoubtedly came his way via his name and dish it back two-fold.

 

He probably fared better than 'Fonda Dicks" :unsure:

 

[Brooklyn Bully]

Went to school with an Amy Pusey. She was not hot.

[frash.exe]

Johnny Dickshot ftw

[dos poptarts]

[SCP]

My grandmother worked for a guy named Richard Biter. If I'm lying I'm dying. He went by Dick as well. I have mentioned here before that one of my customers is named Harry Beaver. Harry is in the University of Denver sports HOF for founding the la crosse program I believe.

[Mr. Scot]

My grandmother worked for a guy named Richard Biter. If I'm lying I'm dying. He went by Dick as well. I have mentioned here before that one of my customers is named Harry Beaver. Harry is in the University of Denver sports HOF for founding the la crosse program I believe.

 

Friend of mine once spoke to a 'Richard Head' :blink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, he went by 'Dick'.

 

And yes, he was worthy of the name.

 

 

[Anybodyhome]

Sorry, there was nothing better than the Asiana Airlines pilots names which were repeated several times on television by newscasters who couldn't figure it out...

 

Captain Sum Ting Wong and Flight Engineer Wi Tu Lo

[stirs]

Funny you had a girl named Misty Hyman.

 

Went to college with a guy with the same last name.  I swear he went by "Buster"

[Mr. Scot]

Funny you had a girl named Misty Hyman.

 

Went to college with a guy with the same last name.  I swear he went by "Buster"

 

I knew a guy with the last name 'Hyma'.

 

He didn't take kindly to the jokes.