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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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