The NEW names thread (again)
 

I can't think of any I like but my LEAST favorite is Dean Houston

Haha welcome all to the new Thread That Won't Die!

Early in my baseball Mogul days I had a lefty first baseman that hit over 700 homeruns and was a fixture for my team for over a decade. Never will forget that name.

Lew Durgan

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I am not completely worthless. I can always serve as a bad example.

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If we're talking Mogul players, the greatest of all-time was a pitcher I had in the original Mogul. He won 550+ games and helped pitch my team to 17 World Championships during his career. He went out with a bang. In his final game, he pitched a shutout in game seven of the World Series to cap of a year in which he won the Cy Young Award and MVP by going 25-3 with a 1.68 ERA. He retired the next fall. (And in case you're wondering, yes, I keep the original Mogul on my Hard Drive just to look at his career stats in the HOF.) Baseball renamed the best pitcher award for him. His name????? Cy Dillon! Yes, his parents named him after Cy Young and he broke every one of his pitching records. As Dean Houston is to football, Cy Dillon is to baseball. A cultural icon. A legend.

Back to FOF names -

After a disappointing career as a child actor-turned actor, he thought he'd give it a go in the NFL...

FA Cornerback Rick Schroeder!

Well, at least this won't crash my browser for a while...

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GO HOKIES!! BEAT SYRACUSE!!!

I still like Blitzen Copeland. This should be the last time I post about him

I had these two idiots on my team once, Dean Houston and John Dixon. Houston was my 4th string quarterback and wasn't intended to play, but when my first three guys went down, I was forced to start him the next game. Now this guy, he couldn't complete a single pass. Wait, he could, just to the other team. He ended the day with 6 TD passes, all of ints in the first half. The 2nd half was stricly running, though Houston had to hand the ball off, which caused quite a few fumbles.

Then Dixon, he was an undersized DE who I had to move to LB, where he was still pretty small for the position. He too was forced to start because of injury, and I saw some pretty strange things the game he played. You see, this guy just couldn't make a tackle
Here are a few things I saw:

34 Howard runs off tackle left
Dixon goes over to make the tackle, but is run over and beaten in to the ground by the smallest, and argueably weakest RB in the league, who then goes 68 yards for the touchdown because Dixon got back up trying to make the tackle, but was only able to run into his own players preventing them from stopping Howard.

LOLOLOLOL @ theMike !

that guy was clearly special

how'bout former "ring by the bell"'s Zach Morris ?
same kinda guy...

I once had a player named Phillip Phillips, he was a pretty bad players, but I got free lighting in my stadium

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Dynamite Dolemite. For a running back, he was less than dynamite.

I've never seen any "Dizzy" or "Dynamite" players. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but in probably over 1000 seasons, I haven't seen any!

if you're *really* interested, you can use a hex editor (fhred/fhreddy is free and pretty good) to read all the first and last names in the game (FNames.dll and LNames.dll).

standard warning: unless you know for certain what you're doing, don't make any changes to these files...

My only contribution here is Billy Joe Dostoevsky, aseventh round kick returner that I had. I like the incongutiy of the name.

-alb

Yes,

Not unlike one of my stud DTs, Deron Van der Ahe. I like the contrast from 1st name to last.

my greatest quarterback of all time was named sherman schwartz.

My greatest QB of all time (I also had Drew Bledsoe) just made the HOF. His name was Wendell Wheeler.

Currently I have two RB's with somewhat weird names: Roosevelt Berryhill and Renaldo Twisp.

In real life I think a name like Pats WR Shockmain Davis is rally weird. What was his parents thinking?

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Jeg ved hvor du bor!

y'know chubby, you have this peculiar fascination concerning slandering Dean...

kinda like keyshawn's odd penchant for trash talking about chrebet.

a bit on the spoooky side, i think...

Some loyalty you showed Dean. You wouldn't even draft his son. Grandson. Whatever the hell he was.

Josh

mckerney that was funny, though I don't wanna hear that name ever again!

OK, since I don't wanna mckerney-post, I throw in some names:

Marshall Constable,
George George.

BTW ez, I know what I'm doing...

In my current career I just drafted in the 5th round safety Charles Bednarik. Somewhere Frank Gifford is shivering

Rick

Shortly after my bashing of Any Given Sunday on the old board, I drafted a CB by the name of Jamie Fox

A little OT here...a little.

Went and saw "Meet The Paents" last night and Ben Stiller's character has a name meant for this...although maybe a little on the dirty side...his name is Gaylord Fockr...his last name is a ongoing joke through-out the movie, but u don't find out about his first name till later...which of course there is a rather funny joke attached to...

More closely related to Mike Tyson in the element that he's always the better one, though it's without all the stupid sh!t.

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It's just nice to bring back the memories of "Dean Houston is god" threads

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QB Lonnie Dragon

Josh found a Quarterback by the name of Tony Wyss. Too bad he was a bench warmer. Heh.

i had a S named MIKE HANEY and someone else had a QB named JOEL MORRISON.

why are these significant? i work w/ a michael haney right now and i grew up w/ a kid named joel morrison...weird

and i'm out,
sturmie

Well, I must head into my Front Page Sports teams of old and suggest some names. WR Deion Roddenhouse was an all-pro of mine. Brad Gamble was my QB, and that is where my cloudy memory ends...should go back and play a few seasons. Its been a while!

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"It's ok to cut a kicker in the middle of a season!"

My favorite player of all time was from the old Dynamix Football before it got taken by Sierra. His name was Frank Cadigan. He threw for 12,000 yards per season and over 100 TD's per season. Not that that makes me special. The game could be taken advantage of, obviously.
Unfortunately for my team he mysteriously retired after five seasons; the victim of a car crash is what I said at the time.

Donovan Jamison. RB. Broke ALL of the records when he was drafted by Philly in 2000 1st overall. And I GOT him 3 years later. This was before I knew how to cheat, so I bet THE FARM, and he paid off. Ahhh...Donovan.

Sorry...Arizona. Duh!

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Lizards and snakes are cool!

Leslie Forbes was my best QB ever. He holds all possible records. 67,125 passing yards, 483 TD passes...

A QB that was a stiff named Dick Head.

Okay, just noticed this one in my scouting report for my Iggles' next game against the Giants:

CB Little Potato Schulz

What the hell kind of name is that?

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"Look what I did to you -- again!"
-Dice Clay

Heres some of my favs:

Xavier Zvereva;
T. Rex Webb;
Orlando Liszkiewicz;
Lewis Medzihradsky
Jon Abercrombie (heir to the clothing line);
and Quentin Zeppelin, the HOF running back

I had a guy named Wesley Harding, and there was a Bob Dylan album named John Wesley Harding. That was unfortunately the only memorable thing about him.

QB Skip Spivey! What a GUY!

Idolized All-League LB Grant Lincoln from Harding College.

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i have no clue what you guys are talking about

I can confirm the previous little potato sighting. Little Potato Carter was a stalwart DE of mine whose career was tragically cut short by tobacco withdrawl syndrom.

What if Little Potato Schulz's daughter married Dick Head's son and they named their kid Little Potato Head?

i had a 5'10" backup qb named Jumbo...

No bull, I had a back up QB named Bill Clinton from Arkansas St.

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No matter where you go, there you are.

QB Pat MaGroine and his pro bowl center Ben Dover....oh and PR Director Amanda Huginkiss.

......ok, so maybe I didn't "really" have any of those guys....whats your point

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-Raven

My defensive line was pretty thin so I drafted a defensive end to help reduce the pressure on the starters.

DE Les Strain

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I am not completely worthless. I can always serve as a bad example.

I have a solid, mid-round LB on my team (FOF2001) by the name of Noah Rexin. No joke. HEHHEHEEHHEHEEHE

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God is Gay, burn the flag

I still can't get over seeing Vonnie "Kurt" vonnegut on the Redskins' Roster alongside Sinclair Lewis. I wonder if they were both Lit majors in college.

OK, OK...this is a new one for me!

Pick #44. New Orleans - Weber, Solecismic, C, Michigan State

Not FOF, but FPS Football:

Great middle linebacker named Junior Myss. Poor fellow, mom must have hated him.

-Gilby

Okay okay...here we go.

You know those Simpsons' phone calls to Moe's that Bart makes? This sounds just like one...

"Hi, is Hugh there?"

"Hugh?"

"Yeah, last name, Ashman."

"Hey everybody, I'm looking for a Hugh Ashman. Is there a HUGH ASHMAN here?"

Yep, he was a 1st round pick WR and is now in his seventh year.

Pretty humorous stuff

-Ben

bum ba bum chiiiiii

I had a RB named "Toothpick Turner".

I had to draft him in my Colts career, just couldn't pass that name up!!

Bubba Abdul-Jabbar is my new favorite.

Take a look at the man at the top of the list. Tell me this isn't freakin' hilarious.




Josh

Sweet merciful crap!!! A player has brought shame to the proud Ohio State University with his name only.

Beginning his second season in 2015 at guard for the Denver Broncos...

B.J. Clinton

-Ben

I believe you, but I gotta see a screen shot (suitable for framing) of that!

I'm not real familiar with screen shots and everything...how would I take a screen shot and post it here? I'm using FOF 2 if that matters. Thanks guys.

-Ben

Reposting to keep the thread at the top...can I take screenshots in FOF 2? Or is it an exclusively FOF 2001 thing? Thanks.

-Ben

kingneb,

The Print Screen button on your keyboard will take screenshots with most any program for ya. FOF1, 2, 3, or any other proggie that captures your fancy.

Josh

Just saw a scout named Sand Castle Maas ... his ratings were mostley poor because he was 77 years old

A 2nd year DT I passed up in the '02 expansion draft;
Lamar Dar Dar......with Atlantar......har, har, har.


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"Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?" - Marv Levy

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Just had a guy who was named Arrowsmith Johnson.

The best one I've seen so far:

CB - Trash Talk Oaks

Sadly, the guy played CB about like an Oak...

Miami just offered me 5'11" 263 pound tight end Pumpkinhead Givens.

As much as I would have liked to, I couldn't deal my top CB for him.

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Just as a reference, there was a Syracuse player named Kirby Dar Dar. I am pretty sure he was in the NFL for a year or two, but that's where the last name comes from.

BTW, any 'Cuse fans remember the play that DAR DAR is most famous for? I was at that game and it was the best I have ever seen.

My current season has me with a backup up RB named:

Omar WIGGINS

I am wonder if there is a distant relationship to Wignasty.

He is a TD specialist. In his rookie season he rushed 35 times for 199 yards and 5 TD's

7th round draft pick from Colorado State: Little John Denver !!!! LB had to cut him cuz unfortunatley he hit like a Little John Denver ..... or wait he hit like Grandma's featherbed hahahaha

Ferocious Schweitzer, WR

What a bizarre combination of names...can you imagine the taunting that kid must have endured?

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Weeee - 50th post!

Are you serious about pumpkinhead?

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The saddest thing in the world is the sound of software dying...

I had a back-up qb named george lucas

The latest bomb, first pick in the first round, out of Duke, quarterback Luther Wampus.

I made this pick. He threw 16 interceptions before throwing a single touchdown. He made Ryan 'Pot' Leaf and Todd 'Marijauna' Vich look like Warren Moon.

Speaking of Pot Leaf and Marijauna Vich, I am working on a pilot for a new Odd Couple' with a twist. The twist is there isn't anything odd about loser quarterbacks.

My 2003 draft featured a 5'11", 301 lb Center from Mississippi State named "B.J. Lewinsky."

Sadly, B.J. went undrafted.

I just had a Ty Cobb sighting. He was a crappy defensive back.

"Jumbo Fry" (5'11", 197) just beat me with a game winning field goal.

Kinda wonder why he's named "Jumbo"...leaving the door wide open

Hah... this one is too funny...

Stan Marsh...

And he's from Colorado even...

If you don't get it, nevermind...

Isn't that South Park? (I don't watch the show but the name sounds familiar)

Josh

sachmo71, I was indeed serious about Pumpkinhead Givens. Unfortunately it appears that he's retired in the last couple years. I can't find him on anyone's roster or in the free agent pool. Maybe it was an injury or something, I sure don't remember him being that old when he was offered to me in a trade.

I had a scout named Troy Stoner, I wonder what his thoughts on Bam Morris would be. Also I saw a guy in my last draft named Slick Willie Hanes. My favorite name from FOF2 was Preacher Ed Sutter.

Pumpkinhead. that's awesome!

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The saddest thing in the world is the sound of software dying...

Des Moines just drafted a quarterback named Henry Hudson. I think the other teams really missed the boat on this kid. He should be a shoo-in for team captain, although his passes have a tendency to sail. He is reported to be very effective in cold weather.

I just drafted a LB named Full Contact Feliciano, played two years and got cut, mad a lot of highlight films though =)

This just in from the Department of Redundnacy Department...

In an Empty Cupboard Career I'm doing (an dmay be posting; not sure yet) my starting tackle picked up in the expansion draft is named Howard Howard.

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GO NAVY!!! BEAT ARMY!!!

Cubsfan, he could be from Sudan. I believe the first born must take there last name as their first name. It is good to see that the NFL is getting more global in the future

Full Contact Felacio? Sounds like fun...

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Dieon Sanders

Full Contact Felacio? Sounds like fun...

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Dieon Sanders

I can verify the Pumpkinhead name. I had one in my mine as well, I laughed so hard i fell out of my chair. The best one I had was in FOF2: Abe Abigal Cabbage. He was the all time Interception leader and Hall of Fame Saftey.

Here are a couple:

Mercury Devine
Sedrick Oquendo
Brock Brock (so nice, they named him twice)

CB Mayhem Fassero

QB Quinten Smith, it is interesting because the QB of my high school team has the same name.

My backup QB for 3 years, now starting for the Falcons is named Flowerpot Erickson.

I have Jon Paxson on my team right now.

Todd

I wish I new how to post screenshots, because this guy is worth it:

Meal Ticket Finkes, OT, KCY

Mr. Finkes was a 16th pick overall, an absolute bust, and is on his way out of the league. He has played 155 downs over 3 seasons with three different teams.

Can't beat the name, though.

To take a screen shot . . .hit the print screen button and then in a photo editor, click edit and then paste. it should then put the image on screen and you can save it. As for posting it here, i'm still trying to figure that out. i think it is somewhere in thise forum, i'll look around and see if i can't figure it out

Here, I found the link that explains it
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~fof/ubb/...ML/001289.html

Carigula has a great explaination of how to do it . . .and it works for posting in here, which mine does not

Aha - here it is:




I knew how to take screenshots - to post them, click on the UBB code information link in the post form, and it will explain how to add the UBB image code.

D.J.Rhodes is the greatest QB to ever play the game....

17 seasons
18 awards
4286 completions
67436 yards
543 touchdowns

DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ DJ!

On of my best ever o-linemen was Nate House - and boy he blocked like one. He was an All-Star 1st or 2nd team player for 13 of his 16 years.

QB - Galloping Gene Diefendorf

Gary Dudzik, a definate Dud, worst QB ever to play the game

I have a QB drafted in the 4th Round called Fireball Roberts. Bet his WR's hands will be sore after a game.