Great sports nicknames

[unassuming]

Mighty Ducks

 

[Thanos]

Rudy Gobert, "The Steiffel Tower"
Serge "Iblocka"
Brook Lopez, "Splash Mountain"

Gilles "The Towering Inferno" Lupien

 

[roadhog]

If it does then the best was minor league baseball team the Macon Whoopee.

Binghamton Rumble Ponies

 

[gcostanza]

Hartford Yard Goats

 

[Insidious Von]

Andre "Red Light" Raciceau.
Eugene "Sperm Whale" Whelan
Dave "Duck" Dunn
"Bunghole" Bob Spurgeon
Joe "Jungle Breath" Scibelli

 

[unassuming]

James "Bone Crusher" Smith

 

[Nad Smith]

Gump Worsley the man fit the name.....greatest quote when he was goalie for Rangers...he was asked which team gave him the most trouble ...Gump says the Rangers

bad nicknames...Atlanta Crackers, Washington Redskins.....George Washerwoman Chuvalo

 

[Darts]

He was Bobby Hull before Bobby Hull. Some say the greatest Leaf ever. Harvey "Busher" Jackson.

"Capital Punishment"

 

[roadhog]

Hartford Yard Goats

Pensacola Blue Wahoos
New Orleans Baby Cakes
Rocket City Trash Pandas

 

[gcostanza]

Pensacola Blue Wahoos
New Orleans Baby Cakes
Rocket City Trash Pandas

Love the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

 

[shack]

Albany River Rats
Toledo Mud Hens.

 

[Nad Smith]

Lansing Wingnuts

 

[shack]

Nippon Ham Fighters.

 

[bemeup]

The Houston Astros (boo!) have always named their minor league teams Astros as well, except for when they moved their Florida State League team from Osceola to Kissimmee. After sounding out the name Kissimmee Astros, they decided to go with Kissimmee Cobras instead.

 

[Knuckle Ball]

Steve “The Puck Goes Inski” Buzinski
Goaltender- NY Rangers (1942)

Ravaged by wartime enlistments - the Rangers, during the 1943 season, fielded two 17-year-olds at various points, along with several other teenagers and minor leaguers. New York lost its starting goaltender from the previous season because of the enlistment of regular goaltender Sugar Jim Henry...

... Behind a notably weak Rangers lineup which had only Ott Heller from its previous lineup on defense, and which spent most of the season in last place, Buzinski fared poorly, allowing 55 goals in his nine games as the team's starting goaltender...

... While his worst record came in the season's first four games - in which he allowed 33 goals, including a 10-4 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on November 8, otherwise notable for surrendering Maurice Richard's first NHL goal,[3] and a 12-5 loss to Detroit in which Red Wings star Carl Liscombe set the then-NHL record for points in a game with 7 [4] - after an 8-6 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on November 28, Rangers' management had had enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buzinski

 

[gcostanza]

Lansing Wingnuts

Lugnuts

 

[gcostanza]

Nippon Ham Fighters.

For the longest time, I thought they were the Nippon 'Ham Fighters', but no, they're the Nippon Ham 'Fighters'.

 

[The Oracle]

Bridgeport Sound Tigers

 

[The Oracle]

Miami Screaming Eagles.......They never played a game

Minnesota Fighting Saints.

 

[Goodoer]

Hands down!: William "The Refrigerator" Perry.