THE STORY BEHIND YOUR NICKNAMES
 

I asked this quesh maybe 2 years ago and got some very interesting responses. Now that we have so many new members i will ask it again.

WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND YOUR CHATBOARD NICKNAME !!

please have some fun and detailed answers on how it came about.

Myself, everyone calls me DRE. Even all women young and old. Some of the older women go as far as MR. DRE LOL !

I fell in love with the grace of the black fish as it swooshes about and throughout the ocean's of the world. I have 4 or 5 different mantaray teams painted to date with more coming. If i were to enter the NFL it would be with the MANTARAY'S. Either in hawaii or pasadena californ 'I' 'A". I put two and two together and came up with

MANTARAYDRE **********

PS/My favorite nickname on this chat is "IFRICHARDTODDWASGOD"

My user name is my Dad's name.

It's as simple as the name.I'm a huge raider fan and the HP stands for my initials.I dig the question though.I look forward to the responses.


raiderhp

We were living in Ravenna, Michigan when I first discovered the Miggle chat board sometime in '95 or '96. Even though I grew up in San Jose, California, I adopted Ravenna as my hometown (It's where my wife grew up). Somehow San Jose Al just didn't have the same zing to it as Ravenna Al, so that's how I picked it.

The Name
 

Below is an excerpt from the fall edition of the Tweak. Also the complete Electric Coach article can be read at the web site www.electriccoach.com . Click the "B.O.E.Z" button at the site to read the article.

While visiting message boards by Miggle and Buzzball, Moe noticed that hobbyists around the hobby were referring to themselves as “coaches”. Shortly after visiting the message boards and trying other ideas for a name, Moe came up with the title that would launch him into electric football history. The name he came up with was Electric Coach.

Maurice

The Electric Coach

I picked my name because no matter where I got to college, I'm allways be a Badger fan first. Wisconsin boy born and raised.

For my user name,.....it started out as a fantasy sports team name and was originally the "Detroit Murderers". I abbreviated it to DETMURDS and have been using this nickname for almost everything since around 1997.

Not much guessing to mine!
 

Huge Stiller fan.I love their style of play and tradition.Tough town and tougher people ---Steel Town Tough frstplc frstplc frstplc frstplc frstplc

Mine is the combo of my last name "Harmon", and my favorite starting hand in poker "A-8" (Aces and Eights also known as the "Dead Man's Hand")...great thread!

Mine is Dallas because I love the Cowboys and Star because that is the Cowboys logo and 22 because that is Emmitt Smith's number and I was named after him.

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Nothing special here. My last name is Tomko. When I was a freshman, (many, many years ago), one of my coaches started callng me Tomkat, and it stuck. Alot of people here in our small town, don't know my real name, or have even forgotten it, but everyone knows me by Tomkat. FYI, this was long before Tom and Kate became "Tomkat", which I believe I have grounds for a lawsuit since spelling is the same. Need to check into that.

my name
 

My name is James I go by Jim Jimmie is a nickname

Boston21
Boston Red Sox Fan
Roger Clemens wore 21

Nickname
 

Coaches and then teachers started calling me RAM at an early age since many struggled w/my last name RAMaglia....It stuck...

Add my first name of Joe and 57 for the year I was born so I don't forget how old I am and you have Joeram57...

I have many other nicknames my wife has come with up in the past 30 years, but we won't go there...LOL

i have 2
 

in here... coachbback comes from coming back to my old alma mater to coach......capanther actually comes from putting the initials of my first and last name ( ca) in front of the mascott name for a school i coached at ( panther) .......i have wanted to change my coachbback in here to capanther, but dont know how to do it

TVsCHACHI,

because I'm Scott Baio.

Michael Downs
 

:rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl:

And i played FS for the Dallas Cowboys in the 80's.

:D

Nickname
 

Mpls is short for Minneapolis (the metro area where I live) and Tom is my name. I did get a kick out of a person at a tournament who said, "hey, it's mipples tom". The avatar is of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers who used to talk to the baseball and smooth the mound out between innings...a true character.

Raiderman used to call me "Marino" because he thought I looked like Dan Marino.

My wife calls me "Stallion" but that's a whole different thread (or is that Weirdwolf that she calls that). :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl: :rtfl:

Marino
 

I called you Marino because you're the prettiest electric football coach out there!! :rtfl: All you need to do now is do an isotoner commercial! :rtfl: :rtfl:

RAIDERMAN

PrEtty
 

Did you hear that CorEy? Raiderman called ME the prettiest coach in the hobby, not you, Mr. National Prettyboy.

I know, them are fighting words...or at least a throw-down for a "who can gel and blow-dry their hair into the proper formation" contest.ppls$ ppls$

You can blame Perry Burke of Las Vegas for my nickname. He hung it on me back in 2001 at the LAEFL championship weekend, and it stuck. Oh well...

:)

Fydrich was a special time back in Detroit,...which at the time was one of the only reasons why ABC showed the Tigers on Monday Night Baseball instead of the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles and Dodgers as it seemed they always did. I found it almost as fun as the 68, and 84 championships,....well, not that much!?

Wow...I was at the Monday night game that he pitched against the Yankees. You talk about electricity in the air.

Ahhhhh...the good old days!

Oh yeah...
 

...born and raised in the Motor City. Nuff said!

ALL VERY INTERESTING.
 

COACHES,

i see all these nicknames everyday and wondered what the heck does that mean. " detroit murd" I would have never piece that together if you did not tell u.s. it's fun to find out the little tidbit's behind the coach and his name. I am glad i posted this quesh again.

Hey wolf, after all of these years i never knew your name came about because of that. I bet alot others never knew either.

VERY INTERESTING !!!! PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING.. iN A WAY, THIS IS SORT OF INTRODUCING YOURSELF TO THE MINIATURE FOOTBALL COMMUNITY VIA THE USAGE/MEANING BEHIND YOUR NAME !!!

PS/Coaches who do not own a nickname, if you wanted one, what would it be ?



THANX AGAIN

MANTARAYDE

Well, forty six years ago you see mom and dad...well lets just say...and nine months later they labeled me with this name.:nhnh:

Shayn DaPain
 

My nickname in HS was Shayn DaPain. I actually got the name as a wrestler when I broke a kids coller bone on back-heal trip/suplex. It didn't really stick though until the following year in Football. At practice my sophmore year I hit a friend of mine, Robbie sent him to the hospital. I stayed overnight at the hospital reading sports magazines with him that night. At school the next day everybody was calling me 'the pain'. It was better than my childhood nicknames.:fghttt:

i had a feeling when this topic got started it would be interesting.I see that I was right.Some of you guys have great stories for your names.


raiderhp

Fidrych
 

Here's a youtube clip of an old interview with Fidrych. For you youngsters, this guy was definitely eccentric. He kind of reminds me of Rocky Balboa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_jU0b5Hgw

You referred to the Monday Night game against the Yankees, I watched that game on TV and it was honestly the most electric I've ever seen a baseball crowd.

I remember watching on TV as the lineups were being introduced and here's Fidrych in a lawn chair saying, "Mark Fidrych" then he blows a bubble and cracks it, "Pitcher" (blows another bubble) and "Northboro Mass"

I remember thinking who is this guy...then when infielders made a good play, he'd be flopping all around congratulating them (kind of like Wolf when he makes a TD). He was a hoot.

The roots of Silverhorse 228
 

It is quite simple actually...my first love was the Cowboys, my second love was the team of the 90's...my all time favorite players are Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman...my family was "CB" (for those that do not know what this is just watch the movie "Smokey and the Bandit"-stands for citizen band) enthusiast and my father drove a Silver custom made Cadilliac and loved horses...thus his "handle" was Silverhorse...so put it all together...

Silverhorse 228
"CB" handle+Emmitt Smith+Troy Aikman

and thus the story is told....

P.S. The "Silverhorse" also appears on the logo for my favorite style of car of all time...the Ford Mustang!