Ok, so we know that athletes seem to give their kids interesting (also known as unusual) names. But what about the athletes themselves? Have you ever stopped and considered all the silly names that athletes have?
Would you rather be named after a cereal or a board game?
Being a Red Sox fan, the obvious choice would be center fielder Coco Crisp. If you don’t understand why that is funny then you skipped childhood or you skipped breakfast every morning. Of course his name isn’t actually Coco, just a nickname given to him by his grams (real name: Covelli).
Milton Bradley is no longer some guy who invented some really cool board games. He is a mediocre baseball player with a bad temper….maybe because he’s been playing the same game of Monopoly for the last decade.
What do you get when you ask a 2 year-old to pick out her own name? Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced: Peek-a-boo). After being called “Little Girl” for the first two years of her life, her parents left it up to her to pick a name…and unless your kid is Doogie Howser, they’re gonna end up with a silly name. Her parents now claim that she was named after some small town in Idaho…personally I’d rather be named after the children’s game.
Ok, and last but not least we have relief pitcher Mike Myers. I’m sure he’s not a bad guy and for 9 years no one thought much of his name. Then in 1978 the movie Halloween came out, and the mass murder in the film was named, none other than Michael Myers. Myers (the baseball player) has embraced this and now has the creepy Halloween music associated with our murderous friend as his theme song when coming out of the bullpen. Although the comparison is unfortunate, I bet no one messed with him in high school.
