Best NFL Nicknames / Past or Present

[Ned_Merrill]

Nothing says you have arrived as an NFL player like a great, unique nickname. Many are carry-overs from youth, or college days. Sweetness (Walter Payton) is my All-Time Favorite, and Megatron (Calvin Johnson) is so appropriate for the Goodell Era. What are your most memorable choices?

 

[HighTopFade]

The Juice

Cool name, but unhappy ending.

 

[dredinis21]

Jerry Rice AKA GOAT.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Crazy Legs
Broadway
Kansas Comet
Bullet
Deacon
Mad Stork
Snake
Diesel
Too Tall
Hacksaw
Refrigerator
Machine Gun
Prime Time
The Bus

 

[Ned_Merrill]

Let's include team or unit nicknames also.

Purple People Eaters
Monsters of the Midway
The Hogs
The Smurfs
The Steel Curtain

 

[Battlelyon]

Night Train

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Fearsome Foursome
NY Sack Exchange
Gang Green
Orange Crush
Air Coryell
Over the Hill Gang
No Name Defense

 

[The Derski]

The Claymaker

 

[Itsmytime]

Even though it wasn't a nickname given to any NFL team or player at the time, but the nickname "The Four Horsemen" just seems bad ass to me. I mean whats more fearsome than the four horsemen of the apocalypse?

 

[Eastbay]

Playmaker & Prime Time

 

[NEhomer]

Small Balls Brady

 

[Cave_Johnson]

I heard Najeh Davenport was called "The Scat Back" because of that one time he broke into a women's dormitory and took a shit in a laundry basket.

 

[Stomp]

Christian Okoye "The Nigerian Nightmare"
"Cadillac" Williams
Reggie White "Minister of Defense"
Lance Alworth "Bambi"
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson
Ben Jarvis Green Ellis "The Law Firm"
Chris Johnson "CJ?k" and variants
Shawn Merriman "Lights Out"
Cordell Stewart "Slash"
Craig "Iron Head" Heyward
Brian Bosworth "The Boz"
Al Davis "The Maverick"
"Big Baby" Shaun Rogers
Albert Haynesworth "Fat Albert"
Pierre Thomas "Frenchie"
Adrian Peterson "All Day"
Rod Smart "He Hate Me"
Andre "Bad Moon" Rison
John Riggins "The Diesel"
Tyrann Mathieu "Honey Badger"
Marshawn Lynch "Beast Mode"
Greatest Show on Turf
Doomsday Defense
Legion of Boom
Three Amigos
The Triplets

 

[jarntt]

the "Black Unicorn".
I still don't know WTF it means...

 

[BUD]

The Fridge. William Perry

 

[Rock Strongo]

Jerry Rice AKA GOAT.

jerry "sticky fingers" rice

 

[TDs3nOut]

Kind of obscure and clearly a homer pick, but I have affection for Rick "the quick" Upchurch.

 

[Rock Strongo]

christian okoye...the nigerian nightmare, probably the best nickname ever.

 

[Rock Strongo]

tommy '4 times' brady.

 

[TDs3nOut]

The Juice

Cool name, but unhappy ending.

Especially for the people he killed!