R-Kal Truluck employed the all-too-rare first name hyphen. The 20 Packers D-lines were a handful for quarterbacks and a mouthful for fans. Chris Banjo.” Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is the strangest collection of syllables in Packers history.ĭefensive Line – R-Kal Truluck, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, Chukie Nwokorie, Cletidus Hunt Chris Banjo is reminiscent of that ’80s and ’90s sitcom trope where a person makes up a fake name by looking around the room. Sega Dreamcast Bigby just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Amazingly, Atari Bigby is the actual legal name of the hard-hitting mid-’00s strong safety. Secondary – Atari Bigby, Bhawoh Jue, Chris Banjo, Ha Ha Clinton-DixĪbysmal Packers corner Bhawoh Jue hails from Liberia, hence the name that’s not often seen in America. Had he not been a marvelous coach, brilliant player (who occasionally kicked) and the deserving namesake of a the most iconic stadium in all of sports, we’d be geeking out about the guy named “Curly Lambeau” while reading about Packers history. (Please don’t enslave all of humanity over this!) To any extra-terrestrial lifeforms out there named Zud, I mean no offense. The 1937 OG (and DE) was legally named Francis, but went with “Zud” for some reason. However, let’s look past that one, the increasingly common hyphenated last name, and the two nicknames of yore, and focus on Zud Schammel. Marshall Newhouse seems like a name that’s better fit for a top-tier brand of store-bought cookies than something to call a human. Offensive Line – Fuzzy Thurston, Buckets Goldenberg, Zud Schammel, Evan Dietrich-Smith, Marshall Newhouse German much, Wuert? Sterling Sharpe sounds like a shady home photography business. Clyde Goodnight is the best receiver since Dusty Haveaniceday. With all due respect to Sanjay Beach, these three wideoutsall have slightly more unusual names. Wide Receiver – Clyde Goodnight, Wuert Engelmann Jr., Sterling Sharpe Is it the ALDI brand jumbo hotdog knockoff or Brett Favre’s preferred redzone target? True story: I own a Samkon Gado replica jersey. The former was a joy to watch fill in after a wave of RB injuries in 20, and even more of a joy yo say. The latter (somehow pronounced “Greg”) conjures imagery of Eddie Murphy in a fat suit, playing 20 roles in a 1990s blockbuster. Though both were short-tenured Packers reserve running backs, both Gado and Lumpkin are unquestionable first-teamers in this specific name-based all-star team. Technically, he was a receiver and only served as the emergency quarterback, but Holiday’s name sounds like the placeholder for the villain in the script for a B sports movie that was never changed to something better.īackfield – Samkon Gado and Kregg Lumpkin After scanning dozens of old Green Bay rosters, here’s who we’d expect Key & Peele to feature on an all-Packers rendition of the popular sketch. Milwaukee Record doesn’t have the film nor fake mustache budget to make our own East/West Bowl tribute, but we do spend a shitload of time on Pro-Football-Reference. While acknowledging many of the new names filtering into the league is a result of football become more popular throughout the world (which is unquestionably great for the sport), as well as the distinctly-American phenomenon of parents intentionally naming their kids something weird so little Aiyden and Cayleigh can been seen as individuals, a Packers roster once brimming with guys with boring ass names like Tony Fisher, Nate Wayne, Robert Brooks, and Mike Prior has now become a little more eclectic. This particular piece also features cameos from Green Bay Packers players Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and even “A.A. Though we’re fine setting pigskin aside until late August, we couldn’t help but watch the third and latest installment of Key & Peele‘s “East/West Bowl” videos, which draws hyperbolic attention to the increasingly uncommon names making their way into professional sports. Unless an outcome where both participants can lose and be banned from the NFL is added in the next few days, the Super Bowl doesn’t really seem worth watching either. After the events of two Sundays ago (of which we will not speak), football isn’t exactly the first thing on our mind.
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