American nicknames in unoriginality shock!

[Rue]

I was just watching highlights of an NBA game on cable and it got me wondering ... What is up with the unimaginative nick-naming of sportsmen and celebrities in the US these days? T-Mac, A-Rod, J-Kidd, K-Rod, J-Lo, I-Rod and K-Mart (OK, slightly more original). I mean how cool is it to take your first initial and attach it to the first syllable of your surname? Apparantly it's very cool otherwise half of the US wouldn't be doing it.

I am crossing my fingers and hoping that this will never catch on in the UK, especially in football. I don't think I could stomach it if my team came out to the announcment of, 'Here come T-Hen, J-Rey, S-Cam, R-Van etc.' Actually it might be interesting to hear what they say for Freddie Ljungberg's. But seriously - America, please start being more original!

 

[DQuaN]

J-Rey sounds quite cool

 

[NoQuarter]

You can thank hip hop/gangsta rap for the proliferation of this idiocy

 

[Race Idiot]

What's with the prefix Lil? Aren't there about 5 million rappers with the name Lil. I mean they aren't that little? Most of them are grown men.

I am crossing my fingers and hoping that this will never catch on in the UK, especially in football. I don't think I could stomach it if my team came out to the announcment of, 'Here come T-Hen, J-Rey, S-Cam, R-Van etc.' Actually it might be interesting to hear what they say for Freddie Ljungberg's. But seriously - America, please start being more original!

F-LUNG! REPREZENTN THE SWEZDILLEZ FOR NIZZLE
Or that camp looking Arsenal player who looks a bit like Jaques Villneuve. Well that's how i'd put it.

I need to go to T-Scos.

 

[Famine]

What a bunch of F-Wits.

 

[ledhed]

Everyone should just add hed to the end..J- hed ...bobhed larryhed ..etc. moehed curlyhed ....

 

[Arwin]

I'm in the process for asking my nickname to be reassigned to R-Win as we speak.

 

[Mike Rotch]

What's with the prefix Lil? Aren't there about 5 million rappers with the name Lil. I mean they aren't that little? Most of them are grown men.

I'm more concerned with the "Bow-wow" element afetr "lil". "Lil Bow-wow"? What kind of a name is that anyway.

PS: R.Id is a wet sleeve.

 

[Mark T]

Yeh I hate nick names. The worst one I ever heard was "Pimpin T". Can't remember where I saw it now.

 

[Arwin]

What's with the prefix Lil? Aren't there about 5 million rappers with the name Lil. I mean they aren't that little? Most of them are grown men.

Not lil' kim though. She no frontin' that name, and no disrespectin' her, she the coolest Queen Paint-me-Blackstreet, you dig? But I'm a 6'4" baller, an' if I were to ride that pony, I'd be needin' two.*

And lil' bow-wow also is tiny, or at least he was when he got himself that name.




* shooting for a raplingo cliche density record there ...

 

[emad]

I used to live in H-Town (houston) but now I live in T-Dot (toronto). It's still better than living in Scarlem (Scarborough) however.

 

[Joey D]

Well it's all in show, people like it for some reason. Hell my nickname is Joey D and I live in Lo Town. It doesn't really bug all that much because like I said it's all show.

 

[Famine]

Just call me F-Max from S-Town.

Nope. Still sounds like a T-Wat.

 

[a6m5]

Sometimes, you have to have a "alternate" first name to differentiate yourself from others with same first names, espcially in business like the professional sports. I think nicknames like J-Mac, A-Rod or T-Mac's great. It makes it easier for everybody, including the fans, when talking about them.

Around work, some of the people, we call them by their initials. We have BA, JT, DG, BK, TJ and KZ. It's useful, especially when the paticular person have a common first names, like Brian, Tom, Kevin.

 

[ledhed]

so I guess weezbug and feltcher are out ?

 

[MrktMkr1986]

It's useful, especially when the paticular person have a common first names, like Brian, Tom, Kevin.

Hmmm... 💡 I wonder...

so I guess weezbug and feltcher are out ?

Those aren't real names!


...are they?

 

[ledhed]

Those aren't real names!

The buttholesurfers is the name of a band...so what do you think ?

 

[Rue]

I think nicknames like J-Mac, A-Rod or T-Mac's great. It makes it easier for everybody, including the fans, when talking about them.

Yes, because it's so much easier to say A-Rod than Roddick, right?! Your comment doesn't inspire much hope for the collective IQ of US sports fans to equal the amount of syllables in a NBA player's nickname!

 

[ledhed]

Its easier than saying Ithzch Buczhenco.

 

[Rue]

Its easier than saying Ithzch Buczhenco.

Ah, you must be from the, 'If-a-foreigners-name-looks-too-difficult-to-say-then-don't-even-try-to-pronounce-it' school of thought. A whole bunch of English football commentators attended that place too!

 

[a6m5]

Yes, because it's so much easier to say A-Rod than Roddick, right?! Your comment doesn't inspire much hope for the collective IQ of US sports fans to equal the amount of syllables in a NBA player's nickname!

Naaaa, they are just catchy nicknames and not much to do with intelligence or IQs. With Alex Rodriguez, people won't know who he is by his first or last names, because they are too common. You say A-Rod to any (real)male in America, instantly, they know it's an shortened name of a great (way over paid)baseball player.

 

[SimRaceDriver]

Yes, because it's so much easier to say A-Rod than Roddick, right?! Your comment doesn't inspire much hope for the collective IQ of US sports fans to equal the amount of syllables in a NBA player's nickname!

Techically, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankess, formerly of the Texas Rangers, was dubbed A-Rod long before Andy Roddick hit the tennis spot light...

Yet, even though he's now nick-named "A-Rod", most sports fanactics will associate "A-Rod" with Alex Rodriguez....So, in this case, A-Rod is not a good nic-name for Andy Roddick because it causes confusion w/Alex...

 

[Nscale4]

There isn't much I can say about first letter-first syllable nicknames, if they are original. However, if another guy comes along with the same combo, then just go by their proper names. The cause would have to be hip hop. I have nothing against them, just come up with better names, that's all.

 

[s0nny80y]

J-Lo

She started it all. Then P. Diddy. Then to the sports arena. and then its history from there

 

[Joey D]

J-Lo

She started it all. Then P. Diddy. Then to the sports arena. and then its history from there

They were giving nick names to athletes for a long time, look at all the old boxers and baseball players, or now adays hockey. There are a ton of them. But with the stupid names I guess you could say J lo started it.

 

[viet1098]

A-hole

 

[Jmac279]

*takes offense*

 

[Flame-returns]

So from now on the Liverpool football team will be known as X-Alon, S-Gerr, K-Kirk, J-Dude etc right?

 

[JacktheHat]

We've always had nicknames in British sport too and they never used to be original either.

Wright = Wrighty
Greaves = Greavesy
Jones = Jonesy

etc., etc.

British hip-hop, however, has produced some original nicknames - such as Itchy, the slang for London.

 

[Flame-returns]

London is the LDN get it right, We Graft in the LDN. Coincidentally, the "city creed" smoke "whizzy".