Strange names

[Steak Snabler]

Once covered a high school defensive tackle named Dafinest Blackmon.

 

[93Devil]

My wife works with a woman whose first name is Kelly and she married a man with the last name Kelly.

Kelly Kelly

 

[Jake_Taylor]

There was a fairly prominent volleyball player in the 90s named Allen Allen.

 

[ChrisLong]

There was a fairly prominent volleyball player in the 90s named Allen Allen.

And a dumbass columnist in Denver covered a pre-Olympics match and the first time he mentioned this guy he added parenthetically (his parents stuttered).

 

[da man]

FC Dallas used to have a defender named George John whose father's first name is John.

In my youth, the mother of one of the kids I was in school with was named Pearline Pearlstine (yes, it rhymed).

And in my current job, there's a member of our association named George Mammarella. His wife's name? Della.

 

[hondo]

Majestic Mapp, anyone?

And his brother Scientific Mapp. I am not kidding. Played at Florida A&M.

 

[hondo]

The All-SEC women's basketball name team (off current rosters):
Khadijah Carter (Alabama), Khadijah West (Arkansas), Khadijah Sessions (South Carolina)
Neydja Petithomme (Auburn)
Isis Young (Florida. Also on Homeland Security no-fly list)
Hannahkohl Almire (Georgia)
Batouly Camara (Kentucky)
Raigyne Moncrief (LSU)
Precious Person (Ole Miss)
Jazzmun Holmes and Jazmine Spears (both from Miss. State)
Curtyce Knox (Texas A&M)

Coach: Shimmy Gray-Miller (Florida assistant coach)

And you could have a separate All-SEC apostrophe team:
C'Coreia Foy (Alabama)
A'Queen Hayes (Ole Miss)
A'ja Wilson (South Carolina)Marqu'es Webb (Vandy)
Rayte'a Long (Vandy)

Speaking of apostrophes, Florida State had a wide receiver in the 1990s named 'OMar Ellison. That is correct: apostrophe before the first letter of the name, the O and the M capitalized and the a and the r lower-case. FSU beat writers would get a phone call from his mother if they screwed that up in any way.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

From roughly the same era of Virginia basketball was Elton Brown. That doesn't seem so strange, except his roommate was a cousin who played football also named Elton Brown.

 

[SnarkShark]

Long lost cousin of Heywood Jablome?

These guys don't know what the big deal is.

http://gawker.com/ktvu-reports-asiana-air-pilots-were-sum-ting-wong-and-759185714

 

[Donny in his element]

Has the name of former Seton Hall women's hoops coach Phyllis Mangina been aroused yet?

 

[Rhody31]

Girl on American Idol right now is named Mionne Destiny.

 

[canucklehead]

Went to high school with a girl name Candy Barr. She was a blonde who loved tight pants. The football team lined up to watch her catch the bus before practice.