April 7, 2024 • 46 mins
Experience a nostalgia-filled journey back to the 80s sports era with Mr. B, Big Nic and Sports Water Mark in this exciting episode of "The Big Kid Show." Delve into their exciting discussion about the most unforgettable and iconic athlete nicknames. Listen to the captivating tales behind bizarre yet significant monikers like 'The Nigerian Nightmare', 'The Refrigerator', and 'Charlie Hustle'. From American football to baseball, uncover the fascinating stories that made these nicknames stand the test of time.
Discover how these athlete nicknames played a significant role in the sports world: 'The Nigerian Nightmare' - Christian Akoye who dazzled the NFL field with his size and dominance, 'The Refrigerator' - William Perry who did not only made noise on the football field but also left strong impressions in wrestling matches and a G.I. Joe figure. Dive into the admirable world of 'Charlie Hustle'- Pete Rose and how he made this derogatory sounding moniker a badge of honor.
Engage in the passionate discourse that leads from the football field to the basketball court, where the 'Round Mound of Rebound' - Charles Barkley earned his name through sheer determination and exemplary play. Step in the boxing ring and get acquainted with the terrifying power of 'Iron Mike Tyson', and to the shimmering ice rink where 'The Great One' - Wayne Gretzky reigned supreme. Laugh along with the hosts as they discuss the lighter side of sports nicknames that conjure up images of kitchen appliances.
Complete the journey with the fascinating tales of 'Mean Joe Green', 'Hakeem The Dream', 'The Golden Jet', and 'Mr. October'. The storytelling will not only stir up old memories but also ignite fresh debates about these enduring athlete nicknames. Sparkling with humor and doused in nostalgia, this episode is an absolute must for sports aficionados and enthusiasts who find entertainment and connections in the quirky and delightful world of sports nicknames
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All right all right this is the big kid show i'm mr b and thank you for rocking
it with us even if it's just for a little bit with me in the sandbox today we
got two of your favorite big kid legends we got big nick and we got sports watermark
today we'll be playing top three,
thank you boys and girls and welcome and appreciate your applause all right
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we're playing top three you know what we're doing let's just move on here today's
topic is is top three athlete nicknames of the 1980s.
Ooh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this was a fun one.
The research team had a great time. I know Big Nick, Marcus had a great time.
The big kids love everything sports, especially the nicknames that can develop
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and follow an athlete through their career. And the 1980s did not disappoint.
They're some of the tastiest gems of athlete nicknames throughout this decade.
Some may say it was the greatest decade of athlete nicknames,
but we will soon find out.
So lace up your boxing gloves, grab your hockey stick and football pads,
and put on your super sweet short shorts and headband, and let's catapult ourselves,
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into the top three athlete nicknames of the 80s.
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It really helps the show a lot. Yes, yes. Huge thanks
to all you big kids out there listening we love you guys you guys
are awesome big nick you won the pre-show coin
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flip you kick us out first buddy marcus you're
number two he's number two i'm hoping because there were so many of these that
all three of us loved when we were handed out the task i remember even somebody
one of one of the more the more intelligent big kids out there raised their hand and said,
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is there any way we could break this down by half of the decade or maybe even by year?
Because there were just so many that we all love. So I'm hoping for maybe a
little honorary mention for what we will definitely have.
Those should time permit.
We could have turned this into a top five or top 10 real quick because we could
have so many of For my number three,
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when I learned the nickname of this athlete, it inspired me to pick a team that.
That I had never chose before playing Tecmo ball. And I, it made me pick this
team many times over and over again in versus mode, because I love the nickname
and I've loved the athlete, especially on the video game.
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And then to watch him play on the TV screen, he just appeared to be a little
bit bigger and a little bit badder than everybody else on the field,
which made it all that more enticing.
So of course I'm talking about football. If I'm talking about Tecmo ball,
I went with the Nigerian Nightmare, better known as Christian Akoye.
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Yeah, I love it. He was a monster in Tecmo Bowl.
Well, that's why they called him the Nigerian Nightmare. And that was a name that was earned.
Why? Because he was big, fast, and strong.
And he was tough to take down. And there were dudes, professional dudes,
dudes that are wearing pads and helmets that that get paid a lot of money to
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tackle dudes like Christian Okoye, and they didn't want a whole lot to do with
that on the field because he would run you over.
Especially once he got past that defensive line. Even the linebackers were like,
oh, no. And then the defensive backs, he would just truck those dudes.
So he was – and he was – I kind of remember that he was on the bigger side for
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running backs for how fast he was.
I don't know his exact weight, but he wasn't a 215-pound guy.
Yeah, he was probably pushing 230.
They have him build at 6'1", 253 pounds.
Oh, so he was like a... That's a Derrick Henry-sized fella. And back then...
In the 80s, and he would have been more late 80s, but back then,
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everybody liked to wear the big, giant shoulder pads.
Unless you were a quarterback or a kicker, you wore big, giant shoulder pads.
So he looked even bigger than the 250.
And to put it kind of in perspective, Shaquille O'Neal comes into the league
for basketball, and he looks a little bit bigger and a little bit badder than
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all the other very large centers that are already playing in the league.
Christian McCoy, same effect, right? He comes into the NFL 253.
Most of those running backs, you're probably looking at between 210 and 235.
And that's why B would guess 235.
That's considered a large running back because you have to have speed.
And it's very difficult to have the speed necessary to play that.
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And it's quickness to quickness and shiftiness to play that position side to
side. And to have that at that size is a very unique talent and physical specimen.
And so, of course, he's a native of Nigeria. He grows up in Nigeria.
And I don't know much about the great country of Nigeria.
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I'm making an assumption here. So forgive me, but I'm guessing that they don't
play a lot of American football there.
So he probably none at all. Yeah, he's not raised like a lot of people to to
be to be playing American football.
So so he shows up here to this great country and has a disadvantage.
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But he's so talented, so big, so built.
And so just, again, a physical specimen that he was able to play at college.
He played at Azusa Azusa Pacific, a college that I'm not familiar with.
But it makes it to the NFL and not only good enough to be a starter,
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but dominant in games, dominant enough that he earned a nickname from the commentators
and from the players around him known as the Nigerian Nightmare.
And when I first heard that.
First off, he's got a cool name anyway. Christian Akoye is a cool name by itself.
You don't even really need a nickname. It's so cool. Yeah.
When I heard the nickname, I was like, yeah, I need to know everything I can
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about this fella. Like, he sounds awesome.
And watching him on the field, I understood why he was the nightmare,
because I didn't want him running at me. No, sir. Re Bob.
Christian Akoye is my pick. The Nigerian nightmare.
Love. Yeah. He's what you just described. he's a linebacker that is fast and can run the ball.
I mean, you almost kind of wonder, why didn't they also have him playing linebacker?
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But yeah, he was fun to watch.
And I've watched some of his, when they do the highlight reels,
it's just, it's like, yikes.
I mean, imagine being 190-pound quarterback.
You're like, I have to tackle that guy? No thanks.
He was drafted in 87, and despite some time off of the field due to injuries,
he still managed to rack up almost 5,000 yards.
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Rushing almost 5,000 yards on the ground for six NFL seasons,
and he had 40 touchdowns. So
if you needed somebody to put the ball in the end zone, that's your guy.
He was, to me, he was a little bit taller, faster version of Jerome Bettis.
Good call, yeah. I mean, that's not bad qualities to have.
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Yeah, a Nigerian nightmare coming off the list first. I love that pick, Big Nick.
Marcus Aurelius. Hit us with your number three. All right, boys.
So we're going to keep it in the NFL world. I had season tickets.
Lucky enough to my, you know, my dad to get season tickets to the Bengals.
He was a longtime season ticket holder.
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And he took me down to games starting when I was only a wee eight or nine years
old. And I went to every home game for a while.
And I remember end of the 80s. One of the games I went to, we played against,
I believe it was the Philadelphia Eagles.
And there was a gentleman that I saw...
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Waddle onto the football field
that looked a little different than everybody else that
was on the football field and i my dad used to
always bring binoculars and i remember grabbing the
binoculars and looking and this guy was
like twice as wide as like
the other next biggest guy that was on the field and
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that would be one william refrigerator perry yes
like i remember
as a kid it especially as like an eight or nine year old i mean
like 18 year olds look like they're 45 to you
right this dude looked like an absolute monster and i remember being like who's
gonna block that guy like who's gonna potentially stop that guy in any capacity
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now i mean didn't exactly have the agility of of the fastest man alive but yeah
i just i thought that was such a back Knack.
He was a goal linebacker on occasion. Don't forget about that.
Yep. And just, I just, I love that nickname.
I thought it was so fitting. You just think about those like old school giant
refrigerators that would sit in the kitchen and then seeing them in person kind
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of just like completely sealed it for me.
So it was kind of an easy choice for me to pick William Perry there.
The refrigerator coming in as my number three.
That one registered 3.8. Another Super Bowl record.
The first refrigerator to score and the largest running back ever to score a touchdown,
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i love that pick and dude that was also my number three pick are you serious
william the refrigerator pit and all the things you just described is why like
i remember being a young kid i remember even seeing when he was with the bear
so you must have saw him towards the end of his career,
but when he was no it was the bears i'm sorry that's yeah because that was the
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beginning yeah Yep, yep, yep. With the Bears.
Well, he was up with the Eagles in 93 and 94.
So I probably saw him twice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I went from the 80s through
the 90s. But I remember watching a game in the late 80s, early 90s,
and he would come out and you're like, that guy looks weird.
I mean, they're all big dudes, but when you look bigger than all the NFL players, you're huge.
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And so, I mean, I even saw, They had him listed, I guess, in his prime. He was 6'2", 335.
Part of it is he wasn't super tall either. A lot of these offensive linemen
now are 6'8", 300 pounds, so he was kind of a compact 335.
Also, back in the 80s, they weren't that big. Yeah.
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And I actually, because I knew I was going to pick that one,
of course, when he was 11 years old, he weighed 300 pounds.
Imagine playing peewee football and you're like, Nope, I quit.
Like, Hey, you have to block that guy. Like what do you, all of us couldn't
block him. Like the whole team couldn't block a 300 pound 11 year old. So that's hilarious.
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But my favorite, I mean, my main reason why I picked him was not only the nickname,
but they used him to on the offense, like on the offense. And he had three rushing touchdowns. Yep.
And to me, that was unheard of as a kid.
You never saw a defensive guy come in and run the ball. And just because he was such a tank.
He was a monster. Yeah. So also my pick, Mark, you're a genius for picking the fridge, Perry.
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I appreciate that. I did that as well. There you go. There you go.
Matching. Our brains are melded, as usual. And the coolest nickname ever.
Like, hey, what's your nickname? Oh, they call me the refrigerator.
Right? right you're like oh got it no big deal either you are it or you eat everything in it.
Probably a little of both maybe both yep it
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was so difficult for me not to put him on
my list and and you're right the thing like to describe him that's that's what
he looked like was a refrigerator like you picture a refrigerator where it's
just this big rectangle right like and that's what he looked like because as
you said like his his shoulders seemed to come up past his neck a little bit.
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So he just looked kind of like this giant rectangle that you had to,
you had to deal with on the field.
Now his, his, his individual accolades are not so great once he hit the NFL,
but, but still a great career.
He was a Superbowl champion. He was a national champion in college.
He was ACC player of the year, 1984.
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And he was also all American in 83 and 82.
Don't forget wwe hall
of fame yeah this this is
where it goes your your celebrity goes
beyond your your field of play right so you want to talk about your celebrity
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and notoriety going beyond the field of play they made a gi joe figure of this
guy yes i remember that i i was I was never lucky enough to have it,
but... I never had him either.
I was very envious of a few kids in the neighborhood that had the William Perry.
He was one of the ones that you had to cut out the UPC symbols for and mail away.
And that's why I didn't have it. I wasn't smart enough to save the UPC symbols.
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And then once I figured that out, I got on board and I got the...
Sergeant slaughter that's how you got the sergeant slaughter character as well
but yeah this dude not only was
he the first player that i ever saw play both offense
and defense they would line him up at fullback on offense he
was defensive tackle on defense and the professional national
football league at the highest level played both sides
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of the ball he was the first guy i ever saw do that he was the first guy that
i ever saw play nfl football and then tune into WWF back then it was WWF wrestling
and he's at the Wrestlemania 2 in a battle royale and then then they make a G.I.
Joe figure like this guy had cornered everything that the young Big Nick loved
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NFL football wrestling in G.I.
Joe one I even just saw so he was
inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 Big
Nick so that's pretty impressive and again I
don't know know how accurate this is but apparently he was very fast like something
something with his high school football team they had all of the fast players
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like the running backs wide receivers and all that defensive backs they would
run the 100 yard dash and he he's his time was sixth.
Wow so think about that like he's smoking like 170
180 pound players at 293 hundred
pounds yeah that's crazy this even this also
says he could execute a 360 degree dunk
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you know how hard that is to get 300 pounds off
the ground let alone spin around
and dunk a basketball so i mean it just shows
you he was an athlete like he probably could have done whatever he wanted
was the size obviously football was his choice but yeah
so apparently he he
gets the name refrigerator when when a fellow
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player could barely squeeze into an elevator with him
like he filled up the elevator by
himself and so you know of course the guy's like man you're as big as a refrigerator
and then he was called refrigerator perry but his teammates called him biscuit
because he was the joke was that he was one biscuit shy of 350 pounds so they called Alden Biscuit.
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And hey, while we're talking this guy up...
This dude that was one biscuit shy of 350 pounds scored three touchdowns his rookie year in the NFL.
Ran two in as a fullback and caught a reception for a touchdown his rookie year as well.
I didn't know about that. I thought he ran all three. That's wild. He had hands, too.
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Hands for days. Hey, clearly we love that nickname because we've got two choices
already off the board for Refrigerator Perry, Big Nick with Nigerian Nightmare.
Big nick let's circle back around to you for your
number two pick all right i'm going to
go to another sport staying in the
professional world of sports i'm gonna
go with a nickname my number two pick is
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charlie hustle which are yes one of it pete rose and i when doing my research
yeah i loved pete rose growing up when i was like so let's go way back in the
time machine here but But I remember there were some older kids in my neighborhood,
and I was one of the younger boys in the neighborhood.
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So I was always trying to see what they were doing so I could hang out with
the, that's who you had to play with, right?
If you're surrounded by older neighbors, you try to figure out how to hang out with them.
And they all collected baseball cards. So we're at the store,
and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to get me some of them baseball cards.
So I got something to talk to these guys about.
I've watched a couple games with my dad. I didn't understand. i'm
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talking i'm like five years old right so i
get like a pack or two of the baseball cards and the next
day i go across the street and i knock on the the older
kids door one just one of them but my only goal was to inform him i have some
baseball cards that's it like got some baseball cards if you want to talk about
it he's like cool all right see you sounds good something though i said he goes
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what's up i like a i got some baseball cards and his first question was was, did you get a Pete Rose?
And I remember sitting there with my tiny little five-year-old brain going, what?
The hell's a Pete Rose? And so I went home and I waited for my dad to come home
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from work. And I was like, Hey dad, what is a Pete Rose?
You know, because his last name is something I identify with something growing
in the garden. Right. You know what I mean? Like I didn't understand that it was the guy's name.
And he explained to me who Pete Rose was. And as my father explained it,
he told told me that he was currently the greatest baseball player that was active in the league.
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Oh, which yet would have been a very accurate statement.
So anytime my father was watching baseball after that, five,
six, even seven years old, my first question to my dad was, is Pete Rose playing?
And if he said yes, I was old enough to understand that there were teams and
these persons belonged to different teams. If he said, yes, Pete Rose was playing,
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Big Nick sat his little butt down and watched the game.
If he said no, Big Nick walked into the other room. I'm outdoors,
y'all. I ain't got time for this nonsense.
You got no Pete Rose. So I loved Pete Rose growing up as a boy.
But doing my research, I found it really incredible the way that he earned this nickname.
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Because a nickname is something that you earn.
You ever meet the guy that gave himself a nickname? I have. I've met a few of
those guys in my lifetime.
And you know what? I want to punch those guys in the face. You don't give yourself a nickname.
Oh, it has to come from a third party and it has to be earned over a period
of time. Not just eating.
Yeah. Pete, Pete Rose was given the nickname Charlie hustle as an insult. Yeah.
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So the great Mickey Mantle saw a young Pete Rose playing baseball to what he
referred to playing baseball like the Tasmanian devil.
And he shouted, the great Mickey Mantle shouted out, oh, look at old Charlie
Hustle over there running around pointing at Pete Rose.
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Pete Rose took it as a compliment, wore it as a badge of honor,
and decided he was going to go by that nickname.
Name and the way that he earned that nickname was because rose was
so dedicated into and determined to
win that when you when he
would get four balls and you would walk him half the time he would
still run to first base even though it's not required he was
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still he was to first base and they said
that he would regularly slide head first into bases
when it wasn't necessary to slide but because it was faster to
him it was the right thing to do and he would regularly
he would regularly run directly into the catcher
even when it wasn't necessary run him over even when it
wasn't necessary the guy played played every game
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like it was his last and so i i
find it fascinating the way that he earned that nickname and i i think it just
it speaks volumes of how he played the game and i remember like because he would
like run so hard like there was many times his he would run and his helmet would
come off running the second.
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So when we would play Little League Baseball, I would purposely,
if I'm running the second, I would just rip my helmet off as I'm running the
second because I'm trying to pull a Pete Rose.
No reason behind it, just like, because I remember seeing him run so hard,
his helmet would flip off.
Remember, his arms would get to pumping so fast with the elbows out that it
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almost looked like he was, like he was air punching somebody in the ribs,
side to side, side to side, side to side, like when he would run,
try to move that body so fast.
I think he's a perfect example of someone that, like, if you look at him on
paper, you're like, this is just an average dude.
But he was, again, Charlie Hustle. He worked. He played his ass off.
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Hence why he's the hit king.
And I love that, man. I love that you picked him. He was clearly on one of my
lists to be mentioned. So, Pete Rose, he's the man.
He was leveling to bad. Roger, sight to sign from Carter, the 1-0 pitch. Swung on.
Hey, just don't bet on baseball while you're playing. Yeah. They frowned upon it.
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We'll save that for another show. Yeah. He'll be in the Baseball Hall of Fame,
but it'll probably be after he passes away, unfortunately.
You know what? That's exactly what it's going to be.
Unfortunately, he will pass away in the next year. He'll go.
They'll put him right in. Which is deserved, because even with some bad choices,
This dude is arguably one of the greatest baseball players that's ever played the game. Yeah. Yep.
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Awesome pick. Charlie Hustle. Pete Rose. Cincinnati shout out.
Marcus, hit me with your number two, son.
All right, boys. Number two. We're going to flip it to the hardwood and kick
it over on the basketball side of things for this one.
So this was a guy that.
When I first heard the nickname, sometimes you just hear that nickname.
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It just clicks in your head, and you're like, that's cool. Yeah.
I mean, it just immediately clicks with you.
So this guy was a 6'7", 210-pound small forward.
He played 11 years for the Philadelphia 76ers, and he was an all-star MVP in
81, five-time member of the all-NBA first team, scored over 30,000 points in
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his ABA and NBA career. Is that good?
I'm pretty sure that's pretty good. Big Dick put up close numbers in Little
League. That would be one.
You know when they call you the doctor, they mean something. Dr.
J, Julius Irving, coming in hot.
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I don't know. To me, as a kid, it was so mesmerizing to be like,
this dude plays basketball, and they're calling him Doctor of the J, which is the main...
Shooting the basketball is the most important thing in the sport of basketball.
Shoot the J. Shoot the J. Also, Dr. J because of Julius, too.
So it's kind of a... Of course, of course. A double nickname. But yeah, Dr.
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J was a cool, cool nickname.
Little play on words. God, he was smooth.
Yeah. I mean, the guy scored 20 over 27 points per game as a rookie.
And, you know, so the ABA at that point. But yeah, I mean, the guy was just an incredible player.
And yeah, I mean, the doctor was in and that was just enough for me right there
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to fall in love and love to watching, watching him sing some J's and play it up. So, Dr.
J, I tip my cap to you, sir.
Well, like when we would play basketball in someone's driveway, the Dr. J hook shot. Yep.
I mean, we would all try it. We sucked at it. But even like we would do, I'd be like, Dr.
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J, and be like, dank, and bank it off the top of the thing. I got halfway decent
at it, meaning I still missed it the majority of the time, but I actually made a couple of them.
Oh, yeah. Dr. J, awesome pick. I was curious if he was going to make a list
there, but he certainly has.
Julius Irving. Also, I think he's the owner of Orange Julius.
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Yes, yes. And fantastic hair with Julius Irving.
He's got it going out on multiple levels. That's right. That's right.
Great pick, Marcus. Dr. J, Julius Irving.
All right. So I'm going to piggyback that with Marcus. When I heard this nickname,
I was like, what? That's the coolest nickname I ever heard. And that would be...
Charles Barkley, the round mound of rebound.
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And even when I first heard it, because that was right when he was playing,
it was when I was playing basketball a lot.
And even in early middle school, my dad was coach on a couple of my teams.
And we would always talk about rebounding. He's like, butt in the gut, butt in the gut.
And so when you watch Charles Barkley, I mean, he wasn't the tallest fella on
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the court. He was only like 6'6", but he was 250 pounds, and dude could just rebound.
Yep. And so when I heard that nickname, round mound of rebound,
I was like, yep, Charles Barkley, you're making my list, buddy.
And this guy was an MVP of the league in 93.
He was a member of the Dream Team in the 92 Olympic team, which just to say
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that knows you're a badass.
Yeah. And he's Charles Barkley. He just says funny, weird stuff all the time.
So he's, he's arguably, you know, when they put together like the,
the all century team or the, the, the 50 greatest players of,
of the league, he's in that 50 greatest players of the league.
And he finished what, what the sun's bulls go.
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Did that go to game seven in the finals? That was a, that was a battle.
I remember that could have been six or seven games, but, and I think that the
sun's might've been the favorite going into it. it.
But here's the thing that I love about Charles Barkley.
And, you know, Zion Williams, popular NBA player. I enjoy him.
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They're built very similar, these two.
And Zion Williams puts up numbers that are similar to Charles Barkley.
And a lot of people kept saying he's going to be the next Charles Barkley.
But you know what separates the two of these guys?
Separates the the good from the great Sir Charles. Remember they used to call
him Sir Charles as well. He had multiple nicknames.
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When he would do the underarm deodorant commercial, whatever that was,
I can't remember the brand name, but Sir Charles Barkley, he would get these rebounds.
And I remember when Zion was going into the NBA and everybody was saying,
oh, he's going to be the next Charles Barkley. He's going to be the next Charles.
You know what he doesn't do that Barkley did?
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His rebound. the round mound a rebound and here's what's disappointing for the
zion fans out there it should be.
Rebounding is a stat that is clearly
indicative of your effort it's
all effort jump shot and all that yeah that's all
talent and all that free throws talents you know
muscle memory and all and it's and it's not a flashy stat
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unfortunately so the newer players are like well i don't want to rebound
i just want to score versus these guys that i
mean not flashy but it's utilitarian humanitarian
but it's necessary right it's 100 necessary
exactly and barkley could do it
and he could do it with some of the some of the best of them especially for
his size and he used that round mound to his advantage a lot of times and this
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guy averaged over that career 11.7 repounds a game wow i mean he averaged it
he averaged he averaged he averaged a double double So he was strong,
22.1 points a game,
11.7 rebounds per game, and actually 3.9 assists per game.
Wasn't bringing the thunder. And he would be playing small forward and guard at times, right?
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Well, I think even there was times where they listed him at center.
Yeah, I think at Auburn, he played power forward and center on occasion because
of. Well, and I'm even I'm looking at some of the stuff here that they would
always list them at six, six.
But there was times that like, I guess he wrote a book and he's like,
he's like, actually, I was only like six, four.
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And so there is a thing about listing players. I know that from some of my buddies
that played high school basketball, that they would list them at really high
or really low heights just to kind of mess with the other team.
But yeah, love to hear that that he was just getting after rebounds.
A round mound of rebounds.
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Perfect pick bit big nick you're number
one it's got to be a good one because it's the top pick buddy what are
you gonna do well you guys with your number two
picks went back to back hardwood i'm gonna stay on
the hardwood that's what she said i'm gonna
go this this is one of my
favorite nicknames of all time i i only watched
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this guy play a few times because of of my
age i was a a little on the younger side to have a great knowledge of watching
him and he played on a team that i did not care for but his nickname was so
cool that he he was a favorite player or you know in the discussion for being
somebody that i really enjoyed watching when i got the opportunity.
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The nickname is the Microwave. One Vinnie Johnson.
We're building a kitchen here, boys. We got the refrigerator. We got the microwave.
He was the sixth man. He was the sixth man.
So not a starter. The sixth man for the Detroit Pistons. And the reason why
he earned this nickname was he
would come off the bench and score a whole bunch of points really quick.
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He would heat up really quick. So he was called the Microwave.
And he earned that nickname. name danny ange
was the the player that
got victimized by vinnie johnson
you never want that yeah yeah so danny
ange was playing for boston and for baston in
in the 1985 playoffs nba
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playoffs and it's boston versus
detroit okay so vinnie johnson
scores 34 points that game he's
the the sixth man he came in off the bench and
scored 22 points in the fourth quarter to
lift the detroit pistons over the
boston celtics in that playoff game so you know we talked about nba jam he's
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heating up he's heating up it means you're getting and then eventually you're
on fire well he would heat up so fast and score so many points so fast that
he earned the very cool nickname of the The Microwave.
Very nice. Very nice.
And I forgot about Vinnie Johnson, but yeah, I love that nickname.
Apparently, we love nicknames that involve kitchen appliances.
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Mark's going to introduce us to the dishwasher next. Yeah, that's right. We have the blender.
The garbage disposal. The garbage disposal. You know what is funny?
Funny, that is one of the nicknames that my father used to call my brother growing
up was the garbage disposal.
He's on my list. How did you know? He could eat everything. He could eat everything.
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There you go. There you go.
Awesome pick. We got Vinny, the Microwave Johnson. Big Knicks pick.
Marcus, you're number one. Let's hit it, buddy.
Well i'm kind of curious if i'm going to be the only one with this guy on my
list to see if mr b you're also in my brain on this one but get out of my brain
to me this was just like the most badass,
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the badass name and it comes from
a guy who was straight badass occasionally like
to nibble on an ear but for the most part was badass and actually is still fighting
he's got to fight against jake paul this year at some point and so the question
this guy has like five or six nicknames so i'm curious which one you're gonna
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go is but i'm going with iron mike tyson.
Yep. Iron Mike Tyson. I mean, I went and watched. If you haven't done it, do yourself a favor.
Google Mike Tyson knockouts. And on YouTube, you'll find like a 25,
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30 minute video that is basically all of his knockout, all of his fights back
to back to back to back to back.
And it's like a minute or two of each fight.
And some of them only lasted that long or less. and
it's it's incredible man like i just the speed
and the power that that guy had and
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then i saw a video of him just recently and he's
50 now over 50 and he's terrifying i
wouldn't i wouldn't say a bad word to that man's
face if he spit on my shoe i'd be
like oh how'd that get there yeah no iron
mike you are you are an honorary member of the big kids club yes you can if
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you you want to bump big nick or mark right off the thing that's cool i want
to pet your tiger and yeah exactly well the idiot did you guys see the video
of the kid who i'm sure did it for you know.
Stupid trend of people doing dumb stuff on social media just for clout is so annoying.
But the kid on the airplane who was basically like annoying him from behind
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him in the seat, he ended up turning around and kicking the kid's ass.
And I'm like, good for him, man.
Like, what are you freaking doing, man? You're picking a fight with Mike Tyson?
Like, come on, man. There's like five people in the world that you don't pick
a fight with. Mike Tyson is always on that list.
Yeah. I mean, maybe wait till he's like 90 and then you could pick a fight.
But even still i saw some of those training videos he's
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still got it man like he still got it oh and the only thing that worries me
is that there's not some kind of like stage fight situation but mike tice is
just gonna thump this dude in the fucking ground like i mean he he's a monster
he is a monster man and it again the fact that it hasn't changed but him and his prime especially.
Oh that mike 22 year old mike tyson
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was oh he's knocking everybody out and he
wasn't like because he i don't remember he was not very tall
but he was just like compact and
then fast fifth well it's funny when you
watch the compilation he's got this one punch
where he kind of ducks his shoulder and it's almost like an uppercut slash kind
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of hook yep and every dude when he connected that every time night night night
night yeah and he and he was so quick for a heavyweight too that's That's what was kind of scary.
Like you see these big guys come out and they're like, whoa,
this guy should be not fighting in this weight class. He's too fast.
Exactly. And he's so short, but he's so big. Because he's only like what? 5'10". 5'10". Okay.
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See, I thought he was only 5'10". He's not short by the world standards, but he's short.
He's in heavyweight standards. And Mr. B's height. So imagine that.
Mr. B fighting heavyweight weighing 200 and what's he weigh? 250? 250?
Probably 230, 225. I don't know what a heavyweight cutoff. Well cut.
Yeah. But he was usually the lighter of the fighters every time too. Yep.
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Yeah. And also he plays a mean character in Mike Tyson's punch out. Yes, he does.
And he's made many a people. We've talked a lot about a lot of great athletes
who have been a part of video games.
This guy had a video game named after him. Yeah. named as he was the central
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character of the video game until it fell apart and then it was just called
punch out but yeah we'll digress on that yeah that's we're talking about the nickname,
hey i heard mike tyson the most
hey that's a badass nickname love it
so he would so i looked it up real quick he would
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mostly weigh in at 220 pounds at the age of 20 so what was what was the a heavyweight
cutoff heavyweights over 200 pounds okay see I and that's why I always got a
little confused because sometimes I thought it was 215 or 220 so I do think
there's a cutoff is it was there ever a super heavyweight,
I think back in the 80s, like you could weigh 300 pounds. You like remember Butterbean?
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It was 300 plus pounds. And it's like, well, it was pretty big,
too. Yeah, he was like 260.
Butterbean would have been on my list. Yeah, no, it says. So I'm looking at another site.
It says he basically is between 215 and 220 when he was at his best.
But you figure at 510, like that's a lot.
I mean, dude, you're stacked, man. Man, if you're a 215, 220 at 5'10".
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Yeah, that's an NFL running back all day long.
Yeah. I mean, you're hurting people. And he can throw a punch, clearly.
You are definitely hurting people. And amazing acting role in The Hangover.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
And the face tattoo that transferred across. So, yep. I think easy choice for me, boys.
I just thought that was such a badass name when I was younger.
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Iron Mike Tyson.
I love it, buddy. All right. So, I'm also going to move on to a nickname that
when I first heard it, I was like, this is the most badass nickname there is.
Clearly, it's my number one pick. And that would be The Great One, Wayne Gretzky.
Yes. Yes. I mean, when you're called The Great One.
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The Great One. Yeah. I mean, not like just like the kind of good one or the – he's all right.
It's The Great One. Slightly above average one. He still has like,
there's like 10 or 12 records that are probably unbreakable in hockey.
I mean, this dude, and especially young Mr. B is age like 10 to 14. I just loved hockey.
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Wayne Gretzky was it for me. This dude was just the shit in hockey. Like just unstoppable.
Dominating. Yeah. Some of the records, 50 goals in 39 games.
He had a 51-game point scoring streak, three consecutive 200-point seasons.
He still has the most career points ever, most heart trophies,
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most career assists, most professional goals in a career, most assists in a
season, most goals in a season.
Do you know how many of that was? Does it say how many goals that was with the
most goals in the season?
92. Yeah. Like that right there, there's only 82 games in hockey.
Well, and back then there was only 80 games. Or 80 games. But I mean,
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the fact that you have 90, you're scoring more than a goal game.
Like, that's insane. There's four lines on a hockey team. For anybody that's
not familiar with hockey, there's 12 guys that play.
I mean, that's just, that's wild, man. Yeah. And he was just like,
when you would watch him, you could just tell that he was like light years above
everyone else on the ice.
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I mean, it was like almost like he's like, he's playing with a bunch of like middle school kids.
And he also, just a side, he played when there was Ironman hockey.
Like, that was like when it was like, no, you're going to get the shit beat
out of you. Like, not now they have all these different rules.
Like, back then in the late 80s, early 90s, actually, he even started in,
I think, late 70s, right? Yeah. The Oilers.
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And he was kind of a, I mean, like, I hate to say scrawny, but he wasn't like a big muscular guy.
No, he was, I think he was like six foot tall, 190 something.
Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, obviously he's athletic. I'm way more athletic than
I am, but just like offensive linemen protect quarterbacks.
And we see that like, Hey, go get off my quarterback.
You will see an offensive lineman run over and pull a dude off their quarterback.
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Gretzky and others fell into the category of, yes, it was still bad-ass beat
the crap out of each other hockey.
But when that dude was on your team, everybody became an enforcer around him.
You don't mess with our dude.
This is our, this, this is a great one, right? This is
the guy that's going to win us the championship if we can keep him
on the ice yeah and hence hence why like
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i'm sure he never got into fights but he
was he was the quick guy and again and i love that
he had all those assist records like he
wasn't just a score he was like no i'm dropping dimes left
and right i think he might even had more assists than goals in his
uh career let's see yeah he had a lot lot of assists he had
1963 assists in his career
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1072 goals i
mean just ever yeah so again when you're called the great one there's a reason
yeah yeah absolutely all right so boys let's i know we have a bunch of honorable
mentions let's let's hit a few you guys start me off how about let's go Let's
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go with big Nick here first.
I'm only going to deliver. I'm going to deliver one because if I,
if I go to two, then now we go down a road where I end up giving you a 20 or 30. Well, I have like 30.
So like, yeah, well, my, the one that I give you might be on your list. Rapid fire.
Yeah. Rapid fire. How about Ed too tall Jones play for the Dallas Cowboys.
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I love how he got the nickname as legend has it.
When he was at the university of Tennessee, see they couldn't find
a pair of pants football pants to fit him for practice
so one of the other players said man you're too
tall to play football and that's not all
jones from there on he was too tall jones he was six foot nine inches tall and
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i'll tell you what big boy i remember i remember my father going hey nick the
one guy on the one team you know his name is too tall jones he my My father
did not have to point to the player that was too tall Jones.
His head was above everyone. I was able to pick him out immediately.
I mean, we talked about William refrigerator. Perry was playing at the same
time was considered one of the, one of the larger specimens in football. He was six foot two.
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6'2", maybe 6'3", on a good day. Yeah, which is crazy now to think that a lot
of these offensive linemen, 6'9", is not out of the realm.
Right. I mean, but back then it was weird.
So, yeah. Too Tall Jones, a big, ex-honorable mention. That's all you got,
buddy? 15 seasons in the NFL.
No, I told you I'd give you one, and it was a good one, and I will sit back,
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relax, and chime in on your guys'.
Go ahead, Marcus. Marcus. So for hockey, how about Bobby Hall,
the Golden Jet? That was a sweet one.
Reggie Jackson, Mr. October. You couldn't go wrong with that one. Yeah, when you're Mr.
Any Month, that's just badass. Yeah.
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Hakeem, the Dream, Olajuwon. Can't forget about him.
And then last but not least, let's go with, how about Mean Joe Green?
That was a pretty sweet nickname as well.
Love those. those what about dominique the human
highlight real wilkins yes that was
a badass one i love dominique wilkins also ozzy the
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wizard smith yep and he would just
do a backflip after making some sweet play love that and big dick i thought
i thought this might be your pick honestly reggie the ministry of defense white
oh yeah i actually forgot about that one oh yeah the Dude, the Ministry of Defense.
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Like, hey, what's your nickname? Like, yeah, I'm a whole ministry. Yeah, exactly.
We got Clyde the Glide Drexler. Clyde the Glide almost made my list.
That was a close one. And Carl the Mailman Malone.
And then honestly, one that I just always like, because even though it was early
on, Irvin Magic Johnson.
Yeah, I was going to say Magic Johnson. I'm surprised nobody picked.
Yeah, no one even called him Irvin Johnson. It was just Magic Johnson for the rest of his life.
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You know you're doing something right there. How about Smokin' Joe Frazier?
Or you've also got Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear.
So many good nicknames in the 80s.
Yeah. All right, boys, any last little sign-offs before we wrap up shop?
No, I think we've covered it all from my side, man. My only advice outgoing
is don't piss off Iron Mike Tyson on an airplane.
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That's safe. All right, boys and girls, thanks for listening. Tell some friends.
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today we'll be playing top three,
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we're playing top three you know what we're doing let's just move on here today's
topic is is top three athlete nicknames of the 1980s.
Ooh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this was a fun one.
The research team had a great time. I know Big Nick, Marcus had a great time.
The big kids love everything sports, especially the nicknames that can develop
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and follow an athlete through their career. And the 1980s did not disappoint.
They're some of the tastiest gems of athlete nicknames throughout this decade.
Some may say it was the greatest decade of athlete nicknames,
but we will soon find out.
So lace up your boxing gloves, grab your hockey stick and football pads,
and put on your super sweet short shorts and headband, and let's catapult ourselves,
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into the top three athlete nicknames of the 80s.
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flip you kick us out first buddy marcus you're
number two he's number two i'm hoping because there were so many of these that
all three of us loved when we were handed out the task i remember even somebody
one of one of the more the more intelligent big kids out there raised their hand and said,
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is there any way we could break this down by half of the decade or maybe even by year?
Because there were just so many that we all love. So I'm hoping for maybe a
little honorary mention for what we will definitely have.
Those should time permit.
We could have turned this into a top five or top 10 real quick because we could
have so many of For my number three,
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when I learned the nickname of this athlete, it inspired me to pick a team that.
That I had never chose before playing Tecmo ball. And I, it made me pick this
team many times over and over again in versus mode, because I love the nickname
and I've loved the athlete, especially on the video game.
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And then to watch him play on the TV screen, he just appeared to be a little
bit bigger and a little bit badder than everybody else on the field,
which made it all that more enticing.
So of course I'm talking about football. If I'm talking about Tecmo ball,
I went with the Nigerian Nightmare, better known as Christian Akoye.
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Yeah, I love it. He was a monster in Tecmo Bowl.
Well, that's why they called him the Nigerian Nightmare. And that was a name that was earned.
Why? Because he was big, fast, and strong.
And he was tough to take down. And there were dudes, professional dudes,
dudes that are wearing pads and helmets that that get paid a lot of money to
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tackle dudes like Christian Okoye, and they didn't want a whole lot to do with
that on the field because he would run you over.
Especially once he got past that defensive line. Even the linebackers were like,
oh, no. And then the defensive backs, he would just truck those dudes.
So he was – and he was – I kind of remember that he was on the bigger side for
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running backs for how fast he was.
I don't know his exact weight, but he wasn't a 215-pound guy.
Yeah, he was probably pushing 230.
They have him build at 6'1", 253 pounds.
Oh, so he was like a... That's a Derrick Henry-sized fella. And back then...
In the 80s, and he would have been more late 80s, but back then,
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everybody liked to wear the big, giant shoulder pads.
Unless you were a quarterback or a kicker, you wore big, giant shoulder pads.
So he looked even bigger than the 250.
And to put it kind of in perspective, Shaquille O'Neal comes into the league
for basketball, and he looks a little bit bigger and a little bit badder than
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all the other very large centers that are already playing in the league.
Christian McCoy, same effect, right? He comes into the NFL 253.
Most of those running backs, you're probably looking at between 210 and 235.
And that's why B would guess 235.
That's considered a large running back because you have to have speed.
And it's very difficult to have the speed necessary to play that.
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And it's quickness to quickness and shiftiness to play that position side to
side. And to have that at that size is a very unique talent and physical specimen.
And so, of course, he's a native of Nigeria. He grows up in Nigeria.
And I don't know much about the great country of Nigeria.
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I'm making an assumption here. So forgive me, but I'm guessing that they don't
play a lot of American football there.
So he probably none at all. Yeah, he's not raised like a lot of people to to
be to be playing American football.
So so he shows up here to this great country and has a disadvantage.
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But he's so talented, so big, so built.
And so just, again, a physical specimen that he was able to play at college.
He played at Azusa Azusa Pacific, a college that I'm not familiar with.
But it makes it to the NFL and not only good enough to be a starter,
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but dominant in games, dominant enough that he earned a nickname from the commentators
and from the players around him known as the Nigerian Nightmare.
And when I first heard that.
First off, he's got a cool name anyway. Christian Akoye is a cool name by itself.
You don't even really need a nickname. It's so cool. Yeah.
When I heard the nickname, I was like, yeah, I need to know everything I can
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about this fella. Like, he sounds awesome.
And watching him on the field, I understood why he was the nightmare,
because I didn't want him running at me. No, sir. Re Bob.
Christian Akoye is my pick. The Nigerian nightmare.
Love. Yeah. He's what you just described. he's a linebacker that is fast and can run the ball.
I mean, you almost kind of wonder, why didn't they also have him playing linebacker?
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But yeah, he was fun to watch.
And I've watched some of his, when they do the highlight reels,
it's just, it's like, yikes.
I mean, imagine being 190-pound quarterback.
You're like, I have to tackle that guy? No thanks.
He was drafted in 87, and despite some time off of the field due to injuries,
he still managed to rack up almost 5,000 yards.
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Rushing almost 5,000 yards on the ground for six NFL seasons,
and he had 40 touchdowns. So
if you needed somebody to put the ball in the end zone, that's your guy.
He was, to me, he was a little bit taller, faster version of Jerome Bettis.
Good call, yeah. I mean, that's not bad qualities to have.
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Yeah, a Nigerian nightmare coming off the list first. I love that pick, Big Nick.
Marcus Aurelius. Hit us with your number three. All right, boys.
So we're going to keep it in the NFL world. I had season tickets.
Lucky enough to my, you know, my dad to get season tickets to the Bengals.
He was a longtime season ticket holder.
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And he took me down to games starting when I was only a wee eight or nine years
old. And I went to every home game for a while.
And I remember end of the 80s. One of the games I went to, we played against,
I believe it was the Philadelphia Eagles.
And there was a gentleman that I saw...
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Waddle onto the football field
that looked a little different than everybody else that
was on the football field and i my dad used to
always bring binoculars and i remember grabbing the
binoculars and looking and this guy was
like twice as wide as like
the other next biggest guy that was on the field and
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that would be one william refrigerator perry yes
like i remember
as a kid it especially as like an eight or nine year old i mean
like 18 year olds look like they're 45 to you
right this dude looked like an absolute monster and i remember being like who's
gonna block that guy like who's gonna potentially stop that guy in any capacity
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now i mean didn't exactly have the agility of of the fastest man alive but yeah
i just i thought that was such a back Knack.
He was a goal linebacker on occasion. Don't forget about that.
Yep. And just, I just, I love that nickname.
I thought it was so fitting. You just think about those like old school giant
refrigerators that would sit in the kitchen and then seeing them in person kind
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of just like completely sealed it for me.
So it was kind of an easy choice for me to pick William Perry there.
The refrigerator coming in as my number three.
That one registered 3.8. Another Super Bowl record.
The first refrigerator to score and the largest running back ever to score a touchdown,
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i love that pick and dude that was also my number three pick are you serious
william the refrigerator pit and all the things you just described is why like
i remember being a young kid i remember even seeing when he was with the bear
so you must have saw him towards the end of his career,
but when he was no it was the bears i'm sorry that's yeah because that was the
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beginning yeah Yep, yep, yep. With the Bears.
Well, he was up with the Eagles in 93 and 94.
So I probably saw him twice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I went from the 80s through
the 90s. But I remember watching a game in the late 80s, early 90s,
and he would come out and you're like, that guy looks weird.
I mean, they're all big dudes, but when you look bigger than all the NFL players, you're huge.
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And so, I mean, I even saw, They had him listed, I guess, in his prime. He was 6'2", 335.
Part of it is he wasn't super tall either. A lot of these offensive linemen
now are 6'8", 300 pounds, so he was kind of a compact 335.
Also, back in the 80s, they weren't that big. Yeah.
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And I actually, because I knew I was going to pick that one,
of course, when he was 11 years old, he weighed 300 pounds.
Imagine playing peewee football and you're like, Nope, I quit.
Like, Hey, you have to block that guy. Like what do you, all of us couldn't
block him. Like the whole team couldn't block a 300 pound 11 year old. So that's hilarious.
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But my favorite, I mean, my main reason why I picked him was not only the nickname,
but they used him to on the offense, like on the offense. And he had three rushing touchdowns. Yep.
And to me, that was unheard of as a kid.
You never saw a defensive guy come in and run the ball. And just because he was such a tank.
He was a monster. Yeah. So also my pick, Mark, you're a genius for picking the fridge, Perry.
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I appreciate that. I did that as well. There you go. There you go.
Matching. Our brains are melded, as usual. And the coolest nickname ever.
Like, hey, what's your nickname? Oh, they call me the refrigerator.
Right? right you're like oh got it no big deal either you are it or you eat everything in it.
Probably a little of both maybe both yep it
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was so difficult for me not to put him on
my list and and you're right the thing like to describe him that's that's what
he looked like was a refrigerator like you picture a refrigerator where it's
just this big rectangle right like and that's what he looked like because as
you said like his his shoulders seemed to come up past his neck a little bit.
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So he just looked kind of like this giant rectangle that you had to,
you had to deal with on the field.
Now his, his, his individual accolades are not so great once he hit the NFL,
but, but still a great career.
He was a Superbowl champion. He was a national champion in college.
He was ACC player of the year, 1984.
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And he was also all American in 83 and 82.
Don't forget wwe hall
of fame yeah this this is
where it goes your your celebrity goes
beyond your your field of play right so you want to talk about your celebrity
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and notoriety going beyond the field of play they made a gi joe figure of this
guy yes i remember that i i was I was never lucky enough to have it,
but... I never had him either.
I was very envious of a few kids in the neighborhood that had the William Perry.
He was one of the ones that you had to cut out the UPC symbols for and mail away.
And that's why I didn't have it. I wasn't smart enough to save the UPC symbols.
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And then once I figured that out, I got on board and I got the...
Sergeant slaughter that's how you got the sergeant slaughter character as well
but yeah this dude not only was
he the first player that i ever saw play both offense
and defense they would line him up at fullback on offense he
was defensive tackle on defense and the professional national
football league at the highest level played both sides
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of the ball he was the first guy i ever saw do that he was the first guy that
i ever saw play nfl football and then tune into WWF back then it was WWF wrestling
and he's at the Wrestlemania 2 in a battle royale and then then they make a G.I.
Joe figure like this guy had cornered everything that the young Big Nick loved
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NFL football wrestling in G.I.
Joe one I even just saw so he was
inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 Big
Nick so that's pretty impressive and again I
don't know know how accurate this is but apparently he was very fast like something
something with his high school football team they had all of the fast players
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like the running backs wide receivers and all that defensive backs they would
run the 100 yard dash and he he's his time was sixth.
Wow so think about that like he's smoking like 170
180 pound players at 293 hundred
pounds yeah that's crazy this even this also
says he could execute a 360 degree dunk
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you know how hard that is to get 300 pounds off
the ground let alone spin around
and dunk a basketball so i mean it just shows
you he was an athlete like he probably could have done whatever he wanted
was the size obviously football was his choice but yeah
so apparently he he
gets the name refrigerator when when a fellow
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player could barely squeeze into an elevator with him
like he filled up the elevator by
himself and so you know of course the guy's like man you're as big as a refrigerator
and then he was called refrigerator perry but his teammates called him biscuit
because he was the joke was that he was one biscuit shy of 350 pounds so they called Alden Biscuit.
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And hey, while we're talking this guy up...
This dude that was one biscuit shy of 350 pounds scored three touchdowns his rookie year in the NFL.
Ran two in as a fullback and caught a reception for a touchdown his rookie year as well.
I didn't know about that. I thought he ran all three. That's wild. He had hands, too.
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Hands for days. Hey, clearly we love that nickname because we've got two choices
already off the board for Refrigerator Perry, Big Nick with Nigerian Nightmare.
Big nick let's circle back around to you for your
number two pick all right i'm going to
go to another sport staying in the
professional world of sports i'm gonna
go with a nickname my number two pick is
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charlie hustle which are yes one of it pete rose and i when doing my research
yeah i loved pete rose growing up when i was like so let's go way back in the
time machine here but But I remember there were some older kids in my neighborhood,
and I was one of the younger boys in the neighborhood.
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So I was always trying to see what they were doing so I could hang out with
the, that's who you had to play with, right?
If you're surrounded by older neighbors, you try to figure out how to hang out with them.
And they all collected baseball cards. So we're at the store,
and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to get me some of them baseball cards.
So I got something to talk to these guys about.
I've watched a couple games with my dad. I didn't understand. i'm
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talking i'm like five years old right so i
get like a pack or two of the baseball cards and the next
day i go across the street and i knock on the the older
kids door one just one of them but my only goal was to inform him i have some
baseball cards that's it like got some baseball cards if you want to talk about
it he's like cool all right see you sounds good something though i said he goes
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what's up i like a i got some baseball cards and his first question was was, did you get a Pete Rose?
And I remember sitting there with my tiny little five-year-old brain going, what?
The hell's a Pete Rose? And so I went home and I waited for my dad to come home
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from work. And I was like, Hey dad, what is a Pete Rose?
You know, because his last name is something I identify with something growing
in the garden. Right. You know what I mean? Like I didn't understand that it was the guy's name.
And he explained to me who Pete Rose was. And as my father explained it,
he told told me that he was currently the greatest baseball player that was active in the league.
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Oh, which yet would have been a very accurate statement.
So anytime my father was watching baseball after that, five,
six, even seven years old, my first question to my dad was, is Pete Rose playing?
And if he said yes, I was old enough to understand that there were teams and
these persons belonged to different teams. If he said, yes, Pete Rose was playing,
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Big Nick sat his little butt down and watched the game.
If he said no, Big Nick walked into the other room. I'm outdoors,
y'all. I ain't got time for this nonsense.
You got no Pete Rose. So I loved Pete Rose growing up as a boy.
But doing my research, I found it really incredible the way that he earned this nickname.
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Because a nickname is something that you earn.
You ever meet the guy that gave himself a nickname? I have. I've met a few of
those guys in my lifetime.
And you know what? I want to punch those guys in the face. You don't give yourself a nickname.
Oh, it has to come from a third party and it has to be earned over a period
of time. Not just eating.
Yeah. Pete, Pete Rose was given the nickname Charlie hustle as an insult. Yeah.
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So the great Mickey Mantle saw a young Pete Rose playing baseball to what he
referred to playing baseball like the Tasmanian devil.
And he shouted, the great Mickey Mantle shouted out, oh, look at old Charlie
Hustle over there running around pointing at Pete Rose.
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Pete Rose took it as a compliment, wore it as a badge of honor,
and decided he was going to go by that nickname.
Name and the way that he earned that nickname was because rose was
so dedicated into and determined to
win that when you when he
would get four balls and you would walk him half the time he would
still run to first base even though it's not required he was
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still he was to first base and they said
that he would regularly slide head first into bases
when it wasn't necessary to slide but because it was faster to
him it was the right thing to do and he would regularly
he would regularly run directly into the catcher
even when it wasn't necessary run him over even when it
wasn't necessary the guy played played every game
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like it was his last and so i i
find it fascinating the way that he earned that nickname and i i think it just
it speaks volumes of how he played the game and i remember like because he would
like run so hard like there was many times his he would run and his helmet would
come off running the second.
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So when we would play Little League Baseball, I would purposely,
if I'm running the second, I would just rip my helmet off as I'm running the
second because I'm trying to pull a Pete Rose.
No reason behind it, just like, because I remember seeing him run so hard,
his helmet would flip off.
Remember, his arms would get to pumping so fast with the elbows out that it
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almost looked like he was, like he was air punching somebody in the ribs,
side to side, side to side, side to side, like when he would run,
try to move that body so fast.
I think he's a perfect example of someone that, like, if you look at him on
paper, you're like, this is just an average dude.
But he was, again, Charlie Hustle. He worked. He played his ass off.
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Hence why he's the hit king.
And I love that, man. I love that you picked him. He was clearly on one of my
lists to be mentioned. So, Pete Rose, he's the man.
He was leveling to bad. Roger, sight to sign from Carter, the 1-0 pitch. Swung on.
Hey, just don't bet on baseball while you're playing. Yeah. They frowned upon it.
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We'll save that for another show. Yeah. He'll be in the Baseball Hall of Fame,
but it'll probably be after he passes away, unfortunately.
You know what? That's exactly what it's going to be.
Unfortunately, he will pass away in the next year. He'll go.
They'll put him right in. Which is deserved, because even with some bad choices,
This dude is arguably one of the greatest baseball players that's ever played the game. Yeah. Yep.
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Awesome pick. Charlie Hustle. Pete Rose. Cincinnati shout out.
Marcus, hit me with your number two, son.
All right, boys. Number two. We're going to flip it to the hardwood and kick
it over on the basketball side of things for this one.
So this was a guy that.
When I first heard the nickname, sometimes you just hear that nickname.
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It just clicks in your head, and you're like, that's cool. Yeah.
I mean, it just immediately clicks with you.
So this guy was a 6'7", 210-pound small forward.
He played 11 years for the Philadelphia 76ers, and he was an all-star MVP in
81, five-time member of the all-NBA first team, scored over 30,000 points in
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his ABA and NBA career. Is that good?
I'm pretty sure that's pretty good. Big Dick put up close numbers in Little
League. That would be one.
You know when they call you the doctor, they mean something. Dr.
J, Julius Irving, coming in hot.
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I don't know. To me, as a kid, it was so mesmerizing to be like,
this dude plays basketball, and they're calling him Doctor of the J, which is the main...
Shooting the basketball is the most important thing in the sport of basketball.
Shoot the J. Shoot the J. Also, Dr. J because of Julius, too.
So it's kind of a... Of course, of course. A double nickname. But yeah, Dr.
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J was a cool, cool nickname.
Little play on words. God, he was smooth.
Yeah. I mean, the guy scored 20 over 27 points per game as a rookie.
And, you know, so the ABA at that point. But yeah, I mean, the guy was just an incredible player.
And yeah, I mean, the doctor was in and that was just enough for me right there
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to fall in love and love to watching, watching him sing some J's and play it up. So, Dr.
J, I tip my cap to you, sir.
Well, like when we would play basketball in someone's driveway, the Dr. J hook shot. Yep.
I mean, we would all try it. We sucked at it. But even like we would do, I'd be like, Dr.
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J, and be like, dank, and bank it off the top of the thing. I got halfway decent
at it, meaning I still missed it the majority of the time, but I actually made a couple of them.
Oh, yeah. Dr. J, awesome pick. I was curious if he was going to make a list
there, but he certainly has.
Julius Irving. Also, I think he's the owner of Orange Julius.
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Yes, yes. And fantastic hair with Julius Irving.
He's got it going out on multiple levels. That's right. That's right.
Great pick, Marcus. Dr. J, Julius Irving.
All right. So I'm going to piggyback that with Marcus. When I heard this nickname,
I was like, what? That's the coolest nickname I ever heard. And that would be...
Charles Barkley, the round mound of rebound.
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And even when I first heard it, because that was right when he was playing,
it was when I was playing basketball a lot.
And even in early middle school, my dad was coach on a couple of my teams.
And we would always talk about rebounding. He's like, butt in the gut, butt in the gut.
And so when you watch Charles Barkley, I mean, he wasn't the tallest fella on
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the court. He was only like 6'6", but he was 250 pounds, and dude could just rebound.
Yep. And so when I heard that nickname, round mound of rebound,
I was like, yep, Charles Barkley, you're making my list, buddy.
And this guy was an MVP of the league in 93.
He was a member of the Dream Team in the 92 Olympic team, which just to say
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that knows you're a badass.
Yeah. And he's Charles Barkley. He just says funny, weird stuff all the time.
So he's, he's arguably, you know, when they put together like the,
the all century team or the, the, the 50 greatest players of,
of the league, he's in that 50 greatest players of the league.
And he finished what, what the sun's bulls go.
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Did that go to game seven in the finals? That was a, that was a battle.
I remember that could have been six or seven games, but, and I think that the
sun's might've been the favorite going into it. it.
But here's the thing that I love about Charles Barkley.
And, you know, Zion Williams, popular NBA player. I enjoy him.
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They're built very similar, these two.
And Zion Williams puts up numbers that are similar to Charles Barkley.
And a lot of people kept saying he's going to be the next Charles Barkley.
But you know what separates the two of these guys?
Separates the the good from the great Sir Charles. Remember they used to call
him Sir Charles as well. He had multiple nicknames.
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When he would do the underarm deodorant commercial, whatever that was,
I can't remember the brand name, but Sir Charles Barkley, he would get these rebounds.
And I remember when Zion was going into the NBA and everybody was saying,
oh, he's going to be the next Charles Barkley. He's going to be the next Charles.
You know what he doesn't do that Barkley did?
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His rebound. the round mound a rebound and here's what's disappointing for the
zion fans out there it should be.
Rebounding is a stat that is clearly
indicative of your effort it's
all effort jump shot and all that yeah that's all
talent and all that free throws talents you know
muscle memory and all and it's and it's not a flashy stat
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unfortunately so the newer players are like well i don't want to rebound
i just want to score versus these guys that i
mean not flashy but it's utilitarian humanitarian
but it's necessary right it's 100 necessary
exactly and barkley could do it
and he could do it with some of the some of the best of them especially for
his size and he used that round mound to his advantage a lot of times and this
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guy averaged over that career 11.7 repounds a game wow i mean he averaged it
he averaged he averaged he averaged a double double So he was strong,
22.1 points a game,
11.7 rebounds per game, and actually 3.9 assists per game.
Wasn't bringing the thunder. And he would be playing small forward and guard at times, right?
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Well, I think even there was times where they listed him at center.
Yeah, I think at Auburn, he played power forward and center on occasion because
of. Well, and I'm even I'm looking at some of the stuff here that they would
always list them at six, six.
But there was times that like, I guess he wrote a book and he's like,
he's like, actually, I was only like six, four.
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And so there is a thing about listing players. I know that from some of my buddies
that played high school basketball, that they would list them at really high
or really low heights just to kind of mess with the other team.
But yeah, love to hear that that he was just getting after rebounds.
A round mound of rebounds.
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Perfect pick bit big nick you're number
one it's got to be a good one because it's the top pick buddy what are
you gonna do well you guys with your number two
picks went back to back hardwood i'm gonna stay on
the hardwood that's what she said i'm gonna
go this this is one of my
favorite nicknames of all time i i only watched
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this guy play a few times because of of my
age i was a a little on the younger side to have a great knowledge of watching
him and he played on a team that i did not care for but his nickname was so
cool that he he was a favorite player or you know in the discussion for being
somebody that i really enjoyed watching when i got the opportunity.
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The nickname is the Microwave. One Vinnie Johnson.
We're building a kitchen here, boys. We got the refrigerator. We got the microwave.
He was the sixth man. He was the sixth man.
So not a starter. The sixth man for the Detroit Pistons. And the reason why
he earned this nickname was he
would come off the bench and score a whole bunch of points really quick.
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He would heat up really quick. So he was called the Microwave.
And he earned that nickname. name danny ange
was the the player that
got victimized by vinnie johnson
you never want that yeah yeah so danny
ange was playing for boston and for baston in
in the 1985 playoffs nba
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playoffs and it's boston versus
detroit okay so vinnie johnson
scores 34 points that game he's
the the sixth man he came in off the bench and
scored 22 points in the fourth quarter to
lift the detroit pistons over the
boston celtics in that playoff game so you know we talked about nba jam he's
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heating up he's heating up it means you're getting and then eventually you're
on fire well he would heat up so fast and score so many points so fast that
he earned the very cool nickname of the The Microwave.
Very nice. Very nice.
And I forgot about Vinnie Johnson, but yeah, I love that nickname.
Apparently, we love nicknames that involve kitchen appliances.
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Mark's going to introduce us to the dishwasher next. Yeah, that's right. We have the blender.
The garbage disposal. The garbage disposal. You know what is funny?
Funny, that is one of the nicknames that my father used to call my brother growing
up was the garbage disposal.
He's on my list. How did you know? He could eat everything. He could eat everything.
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There you go. There you go.
Awesome pick. We got Vinny, the Microwave Johnson. Big Knicks pick.
Marcus, you're number one. Let's hit it, buddy.
Well i'm kind of curious if i'm going to be the only one with this guy on my
list to see if mr b you're also in my brain on this one but get out of my brain
to me this was just like the most badass,
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the badass name and it comes from
a guy who was straight badass occasionally like
to nibble on an ear but for the most part was badass and actually is still fighting
he's got to fight against jake paul this year at some point and so the question
this guy has like five or six nicknames so i'm curious which one you're gonna
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go is but i'm going with iron mike tyson.
Yep. Iron Mike Tyson. I mean, I went and watched. If you haven't done it, do yourself a favor.
Google Mike Tyson knockouts. And on YouTube, you'll find like a 25,
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30 minute video that is basically all of his knockout, all of his fights back
to back to back to back to back.
And it's like a minute or two of each fight.
And some of them only lasted that long or less. and
it's it's incredible man like i just the speed
and the power that that guy had and
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then i saw a video of him just recently and he's
50 now over 50 and he's terrifying i
wouldn't i wouldn't say a bad word to that man's
face if he spit on my shoe i'd be
like oh how'd that get there yeah no iron
mike you are you are an honorary member of the big kids club yes you can if
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you you want to bump big nick or mark right off the thing that's cool i want
to pet your tiger and yeah exactly well the idiot did you guys see the video
of the kid who i'm sure did it for you know.
Stupid trend of people doing dumb stuff on social media just for clout is so annoying.
But the kid on the airplane who was basically like annoying him from behind
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him in the seat, he ended up turning around and kicking the kid's ass.
And I'm like, good for him, man.
Like, what are you freaking doing, man? You're picking a fight with Mike Tyson?
Like, come on, man. There's like five people in the world that you don't pick
a fight with. Mike Tyson is always on that list.
Yeah. I mean, maybe wait till he's like 90 and then you could pick a fight.
But even still i saw some of those training videos he's
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still got it man like he still got it oh and the only thing that worries me
is that there's not some kind of like stage fight situation but mike tice is
just gonna thump this dude in the fucking ground like i mean he he's a monster
he is a monster man and it again the fact that it hasn't changed but him and his prime especially.
Oh that mike 22 year old mike tyson
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was oh he's knocking everybody out and he
wasn't like because he i don't remember he was not very tall
but he was just like compact and
then fast fifth well it's funny when you
watch the compilation he's got this one punch
where he kind of ducks his shoulder and it's almost like an uppercut slash kind
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of hook yep and every dude when he connected that every time night night night
night yeah and he and he was so quick for a heavyweight too that's That's what was kind of scary.
Like you see these big guys come out and they're like, whoa,
this guy should be not fighting in this weight class. He's too fast.
Exactly. And he's so short, but he's so big. Because he's only like what? 5'10". 5'10". Okay.
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See, I thought he was only 5'10". He's not short by the world standards, but he's short.
He's in heavyweight standards. And Mr. B's height. So imagine that.
Mr. B fighting heavyweight weighing 200 and what's he weigh? 250? 250?
Probably 230, 225. I don't know what a heavyweight cutoff. Well cut.
Yeah. But he was usually the lighter of the fighters every time too. Yep.
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Yeah. And also he plays a mean character in Mike Tyson's punch out. Yes, he does.
And he's made many a people. We've talked a lot about a lot of great athletes
who have been a part of video games.
This guy had a video game named after him. Yeah. named as he was the central
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character of the video game until it fell apart and then it was just called
punch out but yeah we'll digress on that yeah that's we're talking about the nickname,
hey i heard mike tyson the most
hey that's a badass nickname love it
so he would so i looked it up real quick he would
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mostly weigh in at 220 pounds at the age of 20 so what was what was the a heavyweight
cutoff heavyweights over 200 pounds okay see I and that's why I always got a
little confused because sometimes I thought it was 215 or 220 so I do think
there's a cutoff is it was there ever a super heavyweight,
I think back in the 80s, like you could weigh 300 pounds. You like remember Butterbean?
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It was 300 plus pounds. And it's like, well, it was pretty big,
too. Yeah, he was like 260.
Butterbean would have been on my list. Yeah, no, it says. So I'm looking at another site.
It says he basically is between 215 and 220 when he was at his best.
But you figure at 510, like that's a lot.
I mean, dude, you're stacked, man. Man, if you're a 215, 220 at 5'10".
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Yeah, that's an NFL running back all day long.
Yeah. I mean, you're hurting people. And he can throw a punch, clearly.
You are definitely hurting people. And amazing acting role in The Hangover.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
And the face tattoo that transferred across. So, yep. I think easy choice for me, boys.
I just thought that was such a badass name when I was younger.
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Iron Mike Tyson.
I love it, buddy. All right. So, I'm also going to move on to a nickname that
when I first heard it, I was like, this is the most badass nickname there is.
Clearly, it's my number one pick. And that would be The Great One, Wayne Gretzky.
Yes. Yes. I mean, when you're called The Great One.
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The Great One. Yeah. I mean, not like just like the kind of good one or the – he's all right.
It's The Great One. Slightly above average one. He still has like,
there's like 10 or 12 records that are probably unbreakable in hockey.
I mean, this dude, and especially young Mr. B is age like 10 to 14. I just loved hockey.
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Wayne Gretzky was it for me. This dude was just the shit in hockey. Like just unstoppable.
Dominating. Yeah. Some of the records, 50 goals in 39 games.
He had a 51-game point scoring streak, three consecutive 200-point seasons.
He still has the most career points ever, most heart trophies,
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most career assists, most professional goals in a career, most assists in a
season, most goals in a season.
Do you know how many of that was? Does it say how many goals that was with the
most goals in the season?
92. Yeah. Like that right there, there's only 82 games in hockey.
Well, and back then there was only 80 games. Or 80 games. But I mean,
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the fact that you have 90, you're scoring more than a goal game.
Like, that's insane. There's four lines on a hockey team. For anybody that's
not familiar with hockey, there's 12 guys that play.
I mean, that's just, that's wild, man. Yeah. And he was just like,
when you would watch him, you could just tell that he was like light years above
everyone else on the ice.
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I mean, it was like almost like he's like, he's playing with a bunch of like middle school kids.
And he also, just a side, he played when there was Ironman hockey.
Like, that was like when it was like, no, you're going to get the shit beat
out of you. Like, not now they have all these different rules.
Like, back then in the late 80s, early 90s, actually, he even started in,
I think, late 70s, right? Yeah. The Oilers.
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And he was kind of a, I mean, like, I hate to say scrawny, but he wasn't like a big muscular guy.
No, he was, I think he was like six foot tall, 190 something.
Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, obviously he's athletic. I'm way more athletic than
I am, but just like offensive linemen protect quarterbacks.
And we see that like, Hey, go get off my quarterback.
You will see an offensive lineman run over and pull a dude off their quarterback.
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Gretzky and others fell into the category of, yes, it was still bad-ass beat
the crap out of each other hockey.
But when that dude was on your team, everybody became an enforcer around him.
You don't mess with our dude.
This is our, this, this is a great one, right? This is
the guy that's going to win us the championship if we can keep him
on the ice yeah and hence hence why like
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i'm sure he never got into fights but he
was he was the quick guy and again and i love that
he had all those assist records like he
wasn't just a score he was like no i'm dropping dimes left
and right i think he might even had more assists than goals in his
uh career let's see yeah he had a lot lot of assists he had
1963 assists in his career
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1072 goals i
mean just ever yeah so again when you're called the great one there's a reason
yeah yeah absolutely all right so boys let's i know we have a bunch of honorable
mentions let's let's hit a few you guys start me off how about let's go Let's
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go with big Nick here first.
I'm only going to deliver. I'm going to deliver one because if I,
if I go to two, then now we go down a road where I end up giving you a 20 or 30. Well, I have like 30.
So like, yeah, well, my, the one that I give you might be on your list. Rapid fire.
Yeah. Rapid fire. How about Ed too tall Jones play for the Dallas Cowboys.
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I love how he got the nickname as legend has it.
When he was at the university of Tennessee, see they couldn't find
a pair of pants football pants to fit him for practice
so one of the other players said man you're too
tall to play football and that's not all
jones from there on he was too tall jones he was six foot nine inches tall and
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i'll tell you what big boy i remember i remember my father going hey nick the
one guy on the one team you know his name is too tall jones he my My father
did not have to point to the player that was too tall Jones.
His head was above everyone. I was able to pick him out immediately.
I mean, we talked about William refrigerator. Perry was playing at the same
time was considered one of the, one of the larger specimens in football. He was six foot two.
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6'2", maybe 6'3", on a good day. Yeah, which is crazy now to think that a lot
of these offensive linemen, 6'9", is not out of the realm.
Right. I mean, but back then it was weird.
So, yeah. Too Tall Jones, a big, ex-honorable mention. That's all you got,
buddy? 15 seasons in the NFL.
No, I told you I'd give you one, and it was a good one, and I will sit back,
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relax, and chime in on your guys'.
Go ahead, Marcus. Marcus. So for hockey, how about Bobby Hall,
the Golden Jet? That was a sweet one.
Reggie Jackson, Mr. October. You couldn't go wrong with that one. Yeah, when you're Mr.
Any Month, that's just badass. Yeah.
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Hakeem, the Dream, Olajuwon. Can't forget about him.
And then last but not least, let's go with, how about Mean Joe Green?
That was a pretty sweet nickname as well.
Love those. those what about dominique the human
highlight real wilkins yes that was
a badass one i love dominique wilkins also ozzy the
(43:53):
wizard smith yep and he would just
do a backflip after making some sweet play love that and big dick i thought
i thought this might be your pick honestly reggie the ministry of defense white
oh yeah i actually forgot about that one oh yeah the Dude, the Ministry of Defense.
(44:13):
Like, hey, what's your nickname? Like, yeah, I'm a whole ministry. Yeah, exactly.
We got Clyde the Glide Drexler. Clyde the Glide almost made my list.
That was a close one. And Carl the Mailman Malone.
And then honestly, one that I just always like, because even though it was early
on, Irvin Magic Johnson.
Yeah, I was going to say Magic Johnson. I'm surprised nobody picked.
Yeah, no one even called him Irvin Johnson. It was just Magic Johnson for the rest of his life.
(44:37):
You know you're doing something right there. How about Smokin' Joe Frazier?
Or you've also got Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear.
So many good nicknames in the 80s.
Yeah. All right, boys, any last little sign-offs before we wrap up shop?
No, I think we've covered it all from my side, man. My only advice outgoing
is don't piss off Iron Mike Tyson on an airplane.
(45:01):
That's safe. All right, boys and girls, thanks for listening. Tell some friends.
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