My blog has moved!

You should be automatically redirected in 6 seconds. If not, visit
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/bulldogs-blog/
and update your bookmarks.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

What's in a Name?

I suggested in my live game blog from Arizona State that, given how impressive A.J. Green has been so far, he really needs a nickname.

Virtually all the wide receivers have nicknames among teammates -- my favorite being Kris Durham's "White Lightning" -- but even when I talked to them, there was hardly a consensus on a moniker for Green, which leaves me wondering what Tony Wilson has been doing all this time.

In any case, I'm still taking suggestions from fans on a good nickname for Green, but here's what some of the Bulldogs had to say...

Wide receivers coach John Eason: "All the boys just call him A.J. We've got to work on that."

Tavarres King, Green's fellow freshman, said Green is occasionally called "Jizzle" as in "A-Jizzle," but I feel like the Snoop Dogg stuff is sort of played out.

I also learned that King's nickname among teammates is "Chicken."

"My legs, my chicken legs," King said. "We all just kind of got nicknames by things we do on the field, how we look."

King did have one helpful suggestion, which he attributes to Wilson: "I think he calls him Hot Dog, just because of how he plays on the field."

Mo Massaquoi couldn't come up with anything, so he inquired with Matthew Stafford.

"I call him Slim," Stafford said.

"Slim, yeah, he needs to bulk up a little bit," Massaquoi responded.

Durham's contribution seems like a good one: "He's just phenom, man. He's incredible."

As for the man himself, Green said he isn't too concerned about having a nickname. Even in high school, he said, no one came up with anything that stuck.

"Nobody ever gave me a nickname," he said. "Everybody's just always called me A.J."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, since "He Hate Me" is already taken - not to mention "Ocho" - then I guess the most obvious nickname should be......

MOSSY

An obvious reference to his similarities to Randy Moss.

Anonymous said...

Nickname: "Stick 'em!" In honor of the Madden video games where everytime a receiver made a great catch, Madden's generic soundbite was "Back in the day receivers used to put stick em on their hands, now they just use those gloves!"

Anonymous said...

How about "The Franchise"? AJ sure looks like a franchise player if there ever was one.

Mackie said...

...Velcro.

UnderDawg said...

How about "THE FUTURE"? Oh wait, that one's already been taken. What was his name again? I forgot.

Seriously, how about "MONEY" as in Green Money?

Anonymous said...

AJ "Soylent" Green.

When he comes down after a catch in triple coverage, he looks like he's made of people.

Anonymous said...

The Original Taildawgers, my tailgate crew, like to call him "The Showstopper"