Lists With Chris reverse names Jackson Arnold 7-17-25

Lists With Chris reverse names Jackson Arnold 7-17-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Who are the five greatest athletes of all time? Who's
the worst player to ever deliver an iconic sports moment?
Who's the least athletic looking athlete in history. It's time
to rank the best and the worst that sports has
to offer. Let's dive in to lists with Chris.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We do it every week with Chris Beckham and Craig Stevenson,
my good friends. Lists with Chris, and I think we've
got to go one today. We certainly have a unique
one in that I believe we are breaking tradition for
the first time in list with Chris history. I believe
we were going to open with a clip and here
you go. Listen with Chris is off and running.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
To go ahead to unemployment.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
You gotta not be working at what you're working at
before you stop working. Craig Stevenson, what is that clip?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
That is different strokes with the legendary Gary Coleman playing
the character of Arnold Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
And there you go. That is the motivation sort of
for this week's lists with Chris. That is Arnold Jackson,
not to be confused with Jackson, Arnold the Auburn quarterback
who is representing Auburn this week at SEC Media Days,
and so just like the Auburn quarterback, we're trying to
come up with guys who were girls who have names

(01:35):
that might be just as good if they put him
in reverse order. It's certainly true for the Auburn quarterback
because he kind of shares that name with the legendary
star of different strokes, the character Arnold Jackson.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
See, I totally missed read the category. I thought it
was great Gary Coleman Sports movies and I have Lift
the Kid from left Field was what I was going
to start out with. I gotta.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
What you talking about, Craig. Like Jackson Arnold and Arnold Jackson.
You don't have to have somebody else in the same name,
but we could switch the names and maybe it would
make as much sense or even more sense. We'll see
if we can make sense of this category. But it
is in honor of SEC Media Days. We always like
to do that in a timely way. So in honor

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of Jackson, Arnold, Chris Beckham, start us off what you got.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, I don't think that they had SEC Media Days
in nineteen fifty five, but if they did, then I'll
feel sure that Auburn probably would have brought their all
American running back James Fobb or James Forrest better on
his future governor Bob James. Yeah, great run backs for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Jordan's you know, James is a better first name than
last maybe, but Fob. I don't know that's good as
a first or last name. What's up with Fob?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's his name is Forrest. Yeah. I don't know if
this is came up in your research, but the story
I always heard was that he got the nickname because
he was, as somebody said, he was as cute as
a watch bob when he was a kid.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
That's not a word, we use it to be able
to watch bob.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, that's like and that's the like. And you had
a pocket watch that was like the cover of it, right,
uh huh.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, I don't know how cute those are, but.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, all right, yeah, exactly, all.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Right, Greg, what're you gonna start with?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I actually this is this is Auburn related as well,
and uh, you know, of course this season has been
a very memorable year for the Atlanta Braves. Uh. The
In their most recent game, the starting pitcher was former
Auburn star Davis Daniel not Daniel Davis, but Davis.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Daniel's good. That's really good. Yeah, because some of these
you get with the last thing that doesn't have an
S on the end, and then it really lends itself
to this, you know, yeah, it really lends itself to
this all right standing topical. Uh. I will go with
the same city because we just had the Major League
All Star Game and you guys, I know you saw
the tribute to UH, to our local legend after the

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sixth inning. But how about Aaron Henry Henry?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Aaron?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
What do you think about that as a as a
swap of a name, Aaron is probably as common a
first name as it is the last.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sure, Yeah, it wasn't there a Tennessee running back? There
was Aaron Henry? Yeah, well there's one that, uh, isn't there?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It was Henry who was the Was he from Frost Point, Florida?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Travis Henry who I'm thinking of? But there is an
Aaron Henry who played the n B A played at
Michigan State.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
That sounds right, that sounds right? Yeah, yeah, Travis Henry
for Tennessee. And isn't it crazy that I knew right
off the batty was from Frost Frost prou.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Florida couldn't yeah, yeah the way. Aaron Henry, by the way,
currently plays for the Fighting Eagles and the Goal Yeah
of the Japanese B League.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I thought he got traded, but yeah, I guess he's
still with him. All right, there we go here, we're here.
That's who I'm going with. All right? Uh, Chris, what'd
you go if you turned him?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Here? His number of round with their mine? This is
the the Yeah, this guy was the m v P
in the NBA. But if you switch it around, Pierce
Paul sounds like he's the British League MVP. What a
very British stounding name, Pierce Paul for three Yeah yeah uh.
People may people may know that in certain Native American cultures,

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having first names for last names is a very common thing.
M H. Current Major League Baseball outfielder with the Cincinnati
Reds and other teams Connor Joe is his name Joke
or Joe Connor? If you had the.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, Craik, I, have you've been in any private school on
mobile you understand about last name being a first name,
which I'm for sure I'm not judgment like that. I
do actually like that I know, by the way, Chris Beckham,
you have such.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
A child I do. That's right, yeah, Jackson Beckham, I
think it's come up on this uh, on the show
before that. I went to college with two brothers named
Grant and Lee. So no, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You talk about sibling rivalry, that's sibling ravelry.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah. Yeah, and they were They were from Elba, Alabama,
And like I said before, my friend Lee used to
get the Elba Clipper in the mail every week.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
We love that.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, great name.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
All right, here we go. Well, this may be the
this may be the best player on the list, and
it's the only one that I was semi confident you
guys would have. What about the reigning NFL rushing leader
Derrick Henry or Henry Derrick.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah. I don't ever seen Derek as the first as
a last name, but it's still good.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Henry is certainly a good first name, Henry Derek, Derek.
What about Bo Derek. I know it's not.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, god, a real name. That was John Derek. His
actual name, Oh, John Derek.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, I said Derek, but you said John Derek.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yes, John Derek. I mean yeah, she was married. Yeah,
your name with Derek Delavan Harris. But you know, I mean,
if he had a kid, I guess it would be
named John. Yeah, had children are named Derek, So I
guess so.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
He would love this category. You know, he would love
this all right, Derek Henry. That's my next next suggestion, Chris,
what you got?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, this guy sounds like you might do your taxes
for you instead of run the football. But I'll go
with Georgia legend running back Hurst Garrison and and and partners. Garrison.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, that's that's a good. That's a go, Greg.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'm gonna leave the uh well worn path of good
listen of Crisp and go into the world of bass
fishing out a long time television host and bass master
champion Martin Rowland. No, yeah, yes, growing up, fishing shows
were a big deal. I mean marrgel Ward, I mean

(08:15):
d Yeah, that's right, Yeah, dance Jimmy Houston. Houston's out
in the RN. That's right.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
When the sun came up this morning, I took the
time to watch it rise.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Bill Dance, Bill Dance.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Ye are you all familiar with that Bill Dannit.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, he always wore the Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Indeed, mesh cap were the mesh cap when the sun
came up this morning, took the time to watch it
as all right. Since we were inspired by Jackson Arnold,
the Auburn quarterbacks, he did not have to hesitate say
what it what is his name? Arnold Jackson or Jackson Arnold?
It is, in fact Jackson Arnold. I need to mention that. Uh.
Another player that Auburn took the SEC media days was

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Connor Lou. I mean clear, we need to switch that one, Lou.
Connor is much better than Connor Loo in terms of
like being a common name, right.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, especially the way Elie w before him. I've never
seen that as the last name out.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
I know, and Connor obviously is a very good last name.
But Connorlo, the Auburn center makes the list. So there
you go, all right, Uh, Chris, we're doing athletes or
people in sports who you could transpose their names and
they still might have just as good a name, like
Jackson Arnold or Connor Loo. Who you got.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Well, I think you could apply to places as well
named after people with people in Durham. Get excited for
another day of blue deep a football at Wade Wallace Stadium.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh that's good, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Obama head coach Wade.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah, I thought you were gonna go uh ssski, Mike.
I was going, that's not a good one. That's not
a good one.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Chris. You stole that one out for wonder Maybe it
was going to be a multi park category because Wade's
successor as the Alabama coach was Thomas Frank and also
one of the great players in Auburn and Major League
Baseball history. Different Frank Thomas.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
All right, since we were talking about the Major League
All Star Game, makes it timely as well as SEC
media days. One of the brightest stars in Major League
Baseball right now on display at the All Star Game
was a guy who maybe it's his profession if you
switch it up, but Aaron Judge, how about judge Aaron?
I mean, could you see him at two o'clock on

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your local NBC station with a TV show Judge.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Like, yeah, yeah, if he is an actual.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Judge with a bat.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I mean he did have Judge ryme.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yes, Aaron, Judge. You could switch it up, Judge Aaron.
You know he'd have an eight hundred and all that. Yeah,
I could see it exactly, all right, Chris, you could
change the names and then still might sound like it
was a good athlete who you got.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, I just wonder if you changed this guy's name,
would you also have to transpose his nickname? Of course,
I'm talking about the Mamba black Brian Kobe ring to it,
though it doesn't have the same ring.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
You know, this is an interesting one because you're like,
Bran Kobe. That's stupid. No, it's only because you're accustomed
to saying Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Kobe Bryant is not a more common name than Brian
Kobe at all, But it just doesn't roll off the
tongue because you're not used to saying it. With so
many of these that is the case. Yeah, I like
that one a lot. I didn't have the nickname part
of it, but yeah, I like that one.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
All right, Craig, what you got maybe the shortest name
in the category and in the Pro Football Hall of
Fame legendary punter Guy Ray.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Right, Yeah, yeah, from Southern Miss Ray Guy. Yeah, you
could go You could definitely go with that, all right. Uh, Chris,
I wouldn't expect you to get this, but Craig, I
would expect that you would the greatest athlete in the
history of Davidson High School in Mobile, Alabama. Who is it, Craig.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Jason Caffy.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
He's in the running, he's in the he's on the
Mountain Rush board, but he's not number one. The winner
is uh yeah, former New York Jets quarterback Richard Todd.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Oh, yes, Todd.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Richard Todd. It doesn't roll off the tongue the same,
but again I think it would if we got used
to it. Richard Todd or Todd Richard. Either one would
be uh, either one would be good. All right, Chris,
that's what we're doing here. You could uh switch up
the names. It still sounds like maybe it's a good
athlete or sports figure who you got.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Well, this one does not roll off the tongue forwards
or backwards for that matter, but uh, maybe the strangest
good basketball player I can remember see and of course
I'm talking about Joakim Noah or Noah Joachim. Yeah. It
doesn't sound right either.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Way, but yeah, yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
I like it. Greig. Yeah, this guy is. He's an
obscure player, only really known for his name. He is
seventeen years old and he currently plays in rookie ball
for the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Alan Iverson. Actually his name

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is Iverson, Alan, Yeah. Yeah, and he was intentionally named
after the basketball player.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, I like it. I like it, Yeah for sure,
for sure. Uh, speaking of being named after somebody, Craig
I will go with until until this week. The most
recent Alabama high school baseball player to be drafted into
the first round from UMS, right, Maddox brought uns You know,
he was named after Greg Maddox, which is clearly a

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last name.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't know that you want to hear anybody named
bruns I.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Never heard any named Maddicks. I don't well no, I
mean it could be it could be sure for Brunsfield.
You know, you never know sure something like that, all right,
Probably wasn't my best one. Probably wasn't my best one,
all right, Uh, Chris pick me up.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, well I'll try. You know, I've tried to invision
in my mind, Uh, what it would have sounded like
back in nineteen eighty if the Great Lady months And
had just screamed, run Scott run, because Lindy Scott backwards
does not sound the same. Yeah, run Lindsay runs sounds
a lot more uh uh familiar anyway of the Bulldog fans,

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the great Lendsay's got the private jessup Georgia.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Okay, now that may be the best one. That Scott
Lindsay is definitely a better name than Lindsay Scott or
more probably I'm.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Sure, I'm almost certain there have been people named Oh yeah,
Scott Lindsay.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh for sure, Yeah, for sure. That's a that would
be like a common name, Scott Lindsay, whereas Lindsay Scott.
He's the guy that caught the pass against Florida. You know,
that's like, uh yeah, if he was Scott Lindsay, we
mightn't even know who he was, you know, great stuff,
that is really good. Great.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm going local here as well. And this guy's name,
first and last name are both last names, and they
were they commonly got mixed up early in his career
before people really knew who he was. Former South Alabama
quarterback Bradley Carter or tough One Bradley.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Tough one, Yeah, Carter Bradley. Yeah, that's a that's that's
easy to get mixed up, like is there a common
between there or you know, uh, I don't know what
the actual name is. That's that's a good one. Here's
one that at first you'll say, oh, that's not good,
and then emediately you'll say, oh, that's actually great because
again it doesn't roll off the tongue because of what
we gotten used to. But Lebron James James lebron Is

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would be a much more common name than Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
The Alabama Baseball ll SEC shortstop Justin Lebron that's his
actual name.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, Justin Lebron exactly. So James Lebron I think makes
perfect sense. But we've gotten so used to saying Lebron
James that it now just it seems like the most
common thing.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
In the world. Yeah, or lbj for sure.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
I know you like, don't like that? All right, let's see,
Chris what you got.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, I can go, because James is such a common
last name. But I was thinking, you know, more along
the lines of form all we're running back James Joseph
or Joseph James, and that sounds is normal either way.
So that's a good one. Yep. Great, This one is
not exact for the category, but it's so good I

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couldn't leave it out. In March of twenty twenty one,
in a spring training game, reels picture Evan Phillips face
Pirates third baseman Philip Evans. Evans not not quite the same,
but I believe Philip Evans is from Alabama. I think

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he may have played at Samford if I'm not mistaken.
But yeah, hell, Evan Phillips and Philip Evans play faced each.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Other listen by by a list with Chris rules. That
definitely qualifies. You don't need to you don't need to
explain it. Yeah, that was That was plenty close enough
to be within the margins. Yeah, I got no bro that. Well,
since we're on a nice run with the with the
James is, how about uh, how about James Brooks, Auburn

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running back legend Brooks. James probably probably a better name
than James Brooks. I mean, you know, you go either way,
but Brooks is a good first name.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Sick president Brooks, James. I'm sure all right, Chris, what
you got this? Well, this is not I wanted to
just note for or history of historical stake that James
Brooks college college football running back mate Andrews Williams say
took both of them back there in the ye. The

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this one, this one's got a strong possibility be the winner,
because when I googled the athlete's name correctly, the first
thing that came back was his name backward. And of
course I'm talking about great wide receiver and financial wizards
Fanley Morgan or Morgan.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Family Winner, Winner, Winner. That is really good.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I don't know which which rolls off the tongue better
because I know them both so well. You know, that's
really good. Man. I didn't have that, Craig. Do you
have that one?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I did not. That's you beat us on that one, Chris.
That's nice. Nice.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well, if you went to an Alabama football game anytime
from the probably seventies up through the nineties, you would
often hear this voice like that. Of course, is the
legendary Pepper Simpson, often known as Simpson Pepper p a

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announcer at Alabam football games who was famous for calling
it Legion Field Stadium, and he would say things like
mister Beckham, please meet your party at the flagpole. Not
an emergency, he would do, uh please, we will give

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you some scores from around the nation as time will allow.
What he an educator in Birmingham, Yeah, I think he
uh he was a maybe like head master at one
of the private schools in Birmingham, and he always did
the PA at the basketball Final Four as well, in

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addition to Legion Seal.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh yeah, man, you talk about peer. For most people
that will mean nothing, and for others it'll be like, oh,
that's just a solid gold.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
If you watch old clips of Alabama football on on YouTube,
you will hear his voice sometimes in the background, just
announcing the play or whatever play failed the game.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Ogilvie leftack Ole. Yeah, great stuff. All right, Craig. I
got to take this one because I was afraid a
minute ago. I thought you were for sure going to
steal it from me because this is a local mobile here.
But what about uh, would you like it better if
South Alabama basketball coach was Riley Ritchie? Ye, it is

(20:40):
Richie Riley, but what about Riley?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
That would be just as good, right, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Riley is a very good first name, by the way,
So just my endorsement for that, all right, Doug Chris.
We're doing this in honor of Auburn is SEC media days,
taking both Jackson, Arnold and Connor Loo, who could very
easily just switch their aims up and be Arnold, Jackson
and Lou Connor, but they didn't. Uh so we're doing
that with other sports figures who could easily pull that off.

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Who you got, Chris real quick?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
First of all, what does it say about me that
when you said Riley Ritchie? I immediately thought you were
going to say take a bow. But it sounds a
little bit Yes, yeah, I think you know, for all
the things that that are celebrated and make the league
baseball that we saw with the All Star Game this week,

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we can owe really a lot of it to the
great baseball management. Uh wreaky branch better only branch freaky baseball.
That's good. When I had it on my leg, I
don't know that I've ever heard of anybody else named Branch. No.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Man, that's good. That's really good because such a common
last name. Yeah, very good. That certainly fits the category.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Craig, Oh, Randy went with Riley Ritchie. How about local
football legend right Leonard Riley? Oh? Yeah, that could be
a first name either way.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Craig, did you have that one or did I get
that one from you?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
No? When you met?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, I thought that would be I thought that was true.
I thought that would definitely be the case for it
all right, here's one where you gotta bear with me
here because you're gonna think this one's stupid. But it's
only because you're familiar with the name, and I think
you'll come come around. What about Roberto Clemente becomes Clemente
Roberto Roberto. That's a good common last name, right.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Roberto's had a last name. I never heard of that.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Come on, Chris, you're friends with a lot of Roberto's,
aren't you.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I didn't say I am, but yeah, you need to
get out more stupid.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
You need to get out more, Chris. If you don't,
if you don't know any of Roberto's, all right, what
about Sergio Roberto, a Spanish professional footballer.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, okay, Sergio Roberto.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
He's a footballer, soccer player.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I think that might be your worst. Uh, that's the
Indonesian cliff dive in reach.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'm telling you, Sergio Roberto is a person. It can
be a last name, all right, but I will officially
strike it from the record. I'll strike it from the record,
all right, Chris, do better.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, there's a chance to get that Spanish football or
whatever you said. He was what he made the highlights,
His highlights may be coming from Scott Stewart.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, yes, God, Stuart, Scott, Scott Stuart. Yes, that's that's
really good.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
One of the great baseball players of my youth and
the man who has come the closest to hitting four
hundred nineteen forty one. Brett, George, George Brett, just right, Yes,
George Bread that's one very good.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Got caught with that tar pine. Yeah. How about how
about celebrity boxer whatever, Jake Paul Paul Jake. Oh yeah,
Paul Jake's as good as Jake Paul right, the Paul
brothers or the Jake brothers whatever.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Alright, Christ No, I just made he's made the largest
land purchasing. Uh. I think it's fed at Georgian history. No, yeah,
he just bought. He spent I think they said he
had forty million dollars off that fight with Tyson and
he just bought a thirty two million dollar plantation about
an hour away from me. Here. Is that is that
he spent more on that than given basing your one
that you bought that whole town.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
That's what I was about to say.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Uh yeah, that's a long time ago. Price has gone up.
Although you know, although and I get a mixed up
with I don't like he's one of them? Is that
Jake and Paul or loading Paul, both which work for
this category, by the.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Way, Yes, they do both for the category. Yes, it's
easy to Yeah, the brothers their brothers.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, I will go with this week our friend Daniel
Shirley and his friends of the athletic tab this guy
the greatest college basketball player first twenty five years of
this century. Of course, I'm talking about Anthony Carmelo, the
great star Carmelo Anthony.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
I saw that list. I did see that. I'll say,
at first thought, I thought that's a terrible answer, but
it probably isn't. But I didn't think that was gonna.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Bely also would fit the care this category.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yes, that would fit. That would absolutely fit, but not
your official guest, Greg, what you got?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
I'm going to auto racing and uh one of the
most loved and or hated drivers of the last quarter
century or so, Stuart Tony. Yeah, oh yeah, that's right there.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I like it. How about uh? In the conversation for
greatest quarterback currently in the NFL, certainly in the top
five top three, Lamar Jackson could easy become Jackson Lamar.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh that's rights like Kendrick.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Lamar, exactly like Kendrick Lamar, exactly halftime performer at the
Super Bowl. Yep, all right, Dick, Chris. We're doing this
in honor of the Auburn taking two guys to represent
them at SEC media days named Jackson Arnold and Connor
lou two guys who very easily could just have the
opposite name. They could switch up their first name in
last name. It would still fit just perfectly. Who you got.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, when you said this guy maybe one of the
the the greatest quarterback playing in the NFL, I was thinking, man,
Randy is really over valued.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Baker he was, Yeah, I had him. I did have
Mayfield Baker, Yes, I had that.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I was. I was thinking Rogers Alf. I won't make
that one. Uh, I'm gonna go to hockey as I
often do. Great goaltender from the Saint Louis Blues, Joseph
Curtis Akay Curtis Joseph. There you go.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
I like it. I like it. How about the Since
we were doing Auburn, how about the greatest football player
in Auburn history Jackson Vincent bo Jackson. But we got
here Jackson Vincent and if you do that if you
do the nickname Vincent or you do Bo. Now you

(27:35):
do excuse me Jackson, Bo Vincent not bad, not bad anyway,
Bo Jackson. You can switch it.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Up Horseman or something. Yeah. Yeah, you said, you know,
maybe the greatest woman back in the history of stc
in the college football Georgia polks Argy. Wait a minute,
don't forget about Walker Herschel. He ain't bad either. Yeah,
and again that's one that calls it. We're so used
to hearing Hersha Walker Walker Herschel is, I mean, makes

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my sentence as Herschel Walker is not used to hearing it.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Whose name Herschel? Who's the like, Oh? Uh, the A
Pevers sports writer right, Oh, that was the first name.
That was the first name. Somebody's name. Herschel is the
last name. Anyway, I like it. I like it all right? Uh, Craig,
what you got.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
All time? Great New Orleans Saints kicker Anderson Morton m
h yeah it is. I'm buzz them.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Great game.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
I go back to the NBA. This is one that
just straight up has two first names, and that's Paul
George Paul George George Paul. I mean It's just like
either one of them is just as good, because that's
just straight up two first names.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So I went to high school a guy named George
Paul Comba is named after George Harrison and Paul McCartney.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Really, is that the guy who played played at missip State?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
No, not part of the family. Yeah, I mean they're
they're a billion in kumbas.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
But yeah, they also do some billboards.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Don't He's not. They have a realty company.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yes, I've seen him there. I've seen him there and
they're uh yeah, the one, the one combats went to
Missisispi State and played football like a big tight end guy. Yep,
for sure. Brad, there you go. I like it all right? Uh, Chris,
what you got?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Well? I wasn't sure I was going to use this one,
but since he just mentioned he went to school with
somebody named after Paul McCartney and uh John Lennon, I mean,
I gotta go a Ringo Keeley, the Great Ringo.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
That is a good name for them. Backwards.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
It is a good name, right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, that's a good name. That is a good name.
I like it, Greg, what you got?

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Uh? This would probably be a really really old guy
from like the nineteen thirties, you know, but uh he
if you put this name around, he becomes one of
the great NBA players of all time. Irving Julius. Oh yeah,
I don't know Julius is the last name or not?

Speaker 3 (30:05):
No, I think it is, yeah, like like Julius. Sure
it is.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's the last name, Julius. You'll be uh linked to
your pants by half. It just.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Okay. If Vincent bo Jackson isn't the greatest player in
Auburn history, then the only other possible answer is Newton, Cameron,
cam Newton, Newton Cameron. That's just as good as Cameron Newton.
Don't you think.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Okay, name somebody named Newton is the first name? I'm
sure to have this?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Uh yeah, there you go, Newt Gingridge, There you go.
I like it.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I guess that's his name. I don't think it's just Newt,
but no.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I think it is. I think he's I think he's Newton.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Uh he is, Uh yes, Newton Leroy Gingridge. Great name.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Oh, man, boy, that's straight out of John Grisham.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Isn't it. Yeah, Holy Roy. Oh that's that's a good name.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
That's really good. All right, names are just as good
forward backwards. What you got, Chris?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah. And a lot of these names are like when
you switch around it, they sound a little more posh
or regal. And that's what I think of. If Auburn
never played a football game at the Opecker Country Club,
I could hear tackle by Fredrickson Tucker just a little
more of a posh sounding name, which is yeah, little class. Yes,

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I like it.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I like it great.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
One of the great NFL running backs of the nineteen nineties,
Thomas Thurman or that's very good.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Here's one that it doesn't roll off the tone, but
only because you've said it the other way for so long.
Nolan Ryan could just as easy to be Ryan Nolan.
But it just it doesn't sound right. That's not a
name Ryan Nolan. Yes it is, Yes, it could be,
but we said Nolan Ryan for our whole lives, and
so it just, you know, we're just used to saying
it that way.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I believe his given first name is Lynn, which was
another you know, you could do the yeah the whole
thing again.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Like fred linn Lynn Fred. I don't know about fred
is the last name, but could be all right, Uh, Chris,
what'd you got?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah? This was just I wanted to use hcause I
love watching guy play coming up and he he's got
two last names. I think it sounds like but the
great Condredge Holloway or Holloway Condredge. Have you done mic
either way? But I love watching employ. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I always thought that was a cool first name, Condridge.
That's really I thought that was cool, But it could
just easy to be a last name.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yep. Great. Not a fan of this guy's personality or
his uh you know, off field entanglements, which you can't
deny that he was a great player. Linebacker Lewis Ray.
Lewis Lewis.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, Ray's definitely a better first name than last. It's
not better, but it certainly could qualify.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
So I told some law enforcement his anger was Lewis Ray.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
So we were doing this timeliness with Jackson Arnold and
Connor Loo. But also in Atlanta this week the Major
League Baseball Game and one of the starters for the
National League from the Chicago Cubs Kyle Tucker, also known
as Tucker Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Kyle, I thought you, I thought you were going to
try to make something out of Pete Crow Armstrong.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, yeah, I got that hyphen going for him, right,
a different Chicago fielder. Yeah, he's got the whole hyphen
thing happening. Yeah, But Tucker Kyle, you know that's uh.
I think that's you can easily do that one, all right, Chris,
what you got?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I'll go with the guy who I think it's
a bad rap as a head coach. He had one awful,
awful season, but he's a great assistant. Of course. I'm
talking about the head coach of the twenty twelve Southern
miss Golden Eagles, Johnson Ellis.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Johnson. Oh boy, a lot of people just flaw.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, that did not go well.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
They boy, they went from first to worst. I'll tell
you what they.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Did not go with. This guy, uh probably works in
this category. And you're talking about bad one year coaches
in UH in football. And because his first name his
last name are the same thing, Cam Cameron, and actually
Cam is just a nickname because of his last name.

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First name is actually Malcolm. But I mean he could
be Cameron Malcolm. Yeah, it could be.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
How about in the NBA and now Auburn fans are
gonna hate to hear this name. I hate I hate
it for you. But now playing in the n B
A ty Jerome Jerome time it could be Jerome is
Jerome is a better first name than last name? Who
else is name? Jerome is the last name?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah? What did? What did? What did he ever do
to Auburn?

Speaker 3 (34:53):
He played for the Virginia Cavaliers.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Oh yeah, yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:56):
And when they when Albert robin of a national championship?

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Was he the double dribbler?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I believe he was either double dribbler or the guy
that hit the shot from the corner. Yes, yes he was.
He was a perpetrator, Yes, for sure he was.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
He was.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
He was part of all that. Yes he was the
double dribble guy.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
By the way, Yes, Kyle guy was the three point shooter.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
And he was the double dribbler and Auburn people are
still upset about that game, and rightfully so rightfully so
all right, Uh, Chris, what do you got? We're doing
in honor of the Auburn guys at SEC media days, Jackson,
Arnold and Connor Loo. Who you got for a name
could be just as good if you transpose the names

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what you got?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah? Well, I think in uh, as far as University
of Georgia football history, after herschel Walker there may be
no more beloved individual than the ball hitded defense coordinator
Russell Erskine Russell, Yeah, balld back when it was really
rare too. Oh yeah, it was notable to be bald,

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you know, just shave your head ball, that's right, yep, yeah,
well I mentioned that Julius Serving earlier. A guy who
played for his team. Later a Birmingham native and a
member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Tony Andrew m H and Andrew and where you were
going from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
That's a good, very good.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
This might be my best one. This is the twenty
twenty two super heavyweight gold medalist in boxing went on
to a great pro career as well. His actual name
is Anthony Joshua. But Joshua Anthony is way better than Joshua.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I thought, you're Stevens could do with that, could do
with that.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
No, Anthony Joshua becomes Joshua Anthony. Is that That's much
easier to have that roll off the tongue. I'll go
with that, all right, Chris, last one?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
What you got? Well, I will say just my last one.
If Anthony josh would knock somebody out, they could be
carried out by Lamee Mills Lane.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yep, Greig all.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Right, my last one one of the all time greats
and bas Saw nineteen sixty four Rookie of the Year,
nineteen seventy two American League MVP. Allen Dick, Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Dick Allen.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
This is my official last one here and this is
you may not know the name, but it's okay. It's
if you follow recruiting closely in Alabama. Wide receiver from Tuskegee,
Booker T. Washington is committed to the University of Florida.
This is one of those with no s on the
last name, which makes it perfect. His name is Marquez, Daniel,

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switch it up. It's Daniel Marquez. Much better name, much
better name, much better. Yeah better, no s on the
end of day.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, I think Daniel Marquez would be uh maybe playing
for Argentina.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
And yeah, you're right. Yeah, he's no longer a wide receiver,
Booker T. Washington, but he could still be a great athlete.
He could still be a great athlete. He's just probably
not the same guy. Probably not the same guy, but
that would be good. But I got a h is
not gonna be my official guest, because you guys would
get all upset because you would say that, uh, nobody

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has a nobody has a last name of that. That's
a terrible one. But I'm going to make my last
one here and take you out on this clip with
the guy who's famous for having surgery, and that is
Tommy John John Tommy. Why could he not be? Why
could he not be? John Tommy? I think he could be.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
But when you said he was savements for having who
is it? Markshall Arrath had like twenty five knee surgery?

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'll I'll think Caitlyn Jenner, So I'll go a whole
another route.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, none of that would work. None of that would
work anyway. All right, let's uh, I do have a
song to play us out, but uh, what do you guys?
What do you guys think of? Is the winner?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Chris?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
You had one about midway through we thought was really.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Good Stanley Morgan because the company name is so.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Yes, that is really really good. Here's a guy. I'm
gonna take you out with a guy who could certainly
fit the category. He's not in sports, but he is
in music. I'm gonna take you out with a little
bit of this will make you emotional, Chris. This is
a little bit of a Sad Eyes by Robert John
here to take us out on Listener Chris, Chris back
of Greig Stevens and Randy County. Listen with Chris every

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week on Sports Talks n you don't let's not the name,
but we will never say to the end