Reject Sports Names

[Alextrax52]

As some of you will know from the Winter Olympics there was a German Ski Jumper called Andreas Wank in the competitions. It's pretty much the only reason why my dad likes the Ski Jumping. Enoch came out with some reject names of his own.

Has anyone else ever heard of a reject sounding Sports name?

[Aerospeed]

[Jocke1]

Bertrand Baguette?

[Dan B]

Dick Seaman comes to mind.

[simonracer]

There are many rejectful American driver names, most with sexual connotations:
Dick Trickle
Dick Passwater
Dick Salesman
Dick Raper
Dogbreath McGinty
Dick Guider
Louis LeCocq
Bumpy Bumpus
Tommy Hinnershitz

[roblo97]

The Austrian footballer Stefan Kuntz spring to mind.

[dr-baker]

This post from 2010...

[James1978]

I couldn' stop laughing at the name "Billy Boat" when I first heard of him in Amercan racing.

[dinizintheoven]

There was an ice hockey player called Miroslav Šatan. However, the one time I saw him in a televised game (late 90s, I'd been out for a night on the sauce and was going to watch anything that was on the TV) imagine what I saw when the American broadcaster had no concept of the hacek or other diacritics.

[madmark1974]

There's a Bolivian footballer called Juan Carlos Arce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Arce

Not sure of the correct pronunciation ...

[dr-baker]

As some of you will know from the Winter Olympics there was a German Ski Jumper called Andreas Wank in the competitions. It's pretty much the only reason why my dad likes the Ski Jumping. Enoch came out with some reject names of his own.

Has anyone else ever heard of a reject sounding Sports name?

At the Sochi Winter Olympics, it wasn't just Andreas Wank making headlines:

[go_Rubens]

There's a Bolivian footballer called Juan Carlos Arce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Arce

Not sure of the correct pronunciation ...

In Spanish, a is "ah," r is "a-ray," c is "say," and e is "a." Altogether, the pronunciation should be "are-say." Similar to the British word. That's quite rejectful!

[Ataxia]

There's a Bolivian footballer called Juan Carlos Arce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Arce

Not sure of the correct pronunciation ...

In Spanish, a is "ah," r is "a-ray," c is "say," and e is "a." Altogether, the pronunciation should be "are-say." Similar to the British word. That's quite rejectful!

AR-thay, I'd have thought. Source: Did GCSE Spanish a few moons ago.

[FullMetalJack]

Bernt Haas

Ex-West Bromwich Albion footballer, sounds hilariously like 'Burnt Arse'

[Turbogirl]

Shame on you guys for creating a thread simply so that you can laugh at names that sound like genitals...

Just kidding, here is mine:

[UncreativeUsername37]

Too obvious?

[dr-baker]

Too obvious?

Prost is used to mean "cheers" (as in giving a toast) in German-speaking countries. And Panis in Latin means bread. So no, not obvious at all!

[FullMetalJack]

Too obvious?

I'm ashamed that it took me so long to figure it out, especially when you consider the fact that i'm one of the most dirty minded people on this forum.

[Alextrax52]

English footballer Danny Shittu

[MigelNansell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Scheidt



being a Celtic I am ashamed of this signing and the headline of the Club saying and I quote

We are talking and we are talking Scheidt

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Bob Schacht made me laugh when I first heard of him in NASCAR commentary

[Onxy Wrecked]

Bob Schacht made me laugh when I first heard of him in NASCAR commentary

As does Joachim Stuck come to think about if the transmission fails. It's Stuck in 3rd gear!

[Wallio]

There was an ice hockey player called Miroslav Šatan. However, the one time I saw him in a televised game (late 90s, I'd been out for a night on the sauce and was going to watch anything that was on the TV) imagine what I saw when the American broadcaster had no concept of the hacek or other diacritics.

As a Sabres fan, I use to adore Miro. He, Hasek, and Warrener carried those early 200s teams. I always used to hear it pronounced as "Sha-taun". Was that not correct?

[dinizintheoven]

That's how I remember it from the commentators, though I'm referring more to what appeared on screen...

[Wallio]

That's how I remember it from the commentators, though I'm referring more to what appeared on screen...

You think that's bad, wear his jersey to a Catholic School on a "dress-down day" like I did.....

[Jocke1]

All this talk of Satan had me go through my saved stack of hockey magazines which I collected in my youth.
I knew there was an article of him somewhere, and I found it in the October 1999 issue:




I didn't read it all again, but I saw him mentioning that when he first started out playing in the States,
he received a few letters from people wanting him to change his name.

[andrew2209]

[dr-baker]

This seems relevant here...

[Gerudo Dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lSwwqDpoVc

[graham64clayton]

There was a New Zealand cricket bowler of the 1960's and 1970's named Bob Cunis. After a less than memorable performance, a commentator said that his bowling was like his surname - neither one or the other!

[RonDenisDeletraz]

There was a New Zealand cricket bowler of the 1960's and 1970's named Bob Cunis. After a less than memorable performance, a commentator said that his bowling was like his surname - neither one or the other!

As for amusing cricket names, surely Quinton de Kock deserves a mention