What's in a Name?

My generation is a lazy one, thats for sure. You can tell by the way things are for us. We have phones that do everything except wipe our butts, we've replaced face to face contact with facebook and we are incapable of coming up with a great sports nickname. Sure we can blame the younger generation of sports reporters, but when push comes to shove we have become so content with lousy names that we let them invade all our sports!

If you're confused about my point, which is quite understandable, take a look with me at some of the great sports nicknames over the years.
The Sultan of Swat
The Round Mound of Rebound
El Guapo
The Chief
Sweetness
Air Jordan
The Great One
Magic
The Worm 
The Big Diesel
The Human Eraser
And many many more...

How about recently? People have tried to create nicknames for athletes like Flash for Dwayne Wade or Black Mamba for Kobe, but in general its been embarrassing what we've come too. Names like:
LBJ
CP3
D-Wade
Car-Go
A-Rod
K-Rod
Ochocinco ( Yes I realize this is his "real" name still as of now, but it's still more or less a nickname and a bad one... I mean seriously? I wonder if anyone ever told him that's not how you even say eighty-five in spanish? It's just Chad Eight-Five!)
Ovy

It saddens me too little girl... 

Aren't these names lame? You could come up with something better for each of them I'm sure!

LBJ = Lebron James "Joyce gets more fouls called against him"
CP3 = "Excuse me I gotta take a" Chris Paul
D-Wade = Flash ( Already went over this)
Car-Go = Carlos "We just saw his one year brilliance like Luis" Gonzales
A-Rod = "Apparently Cameron Diaz isn't fazed by the affect of steroids on "A rod""...
K-Rod = "How'd You Avoid Jail Rod?"
Chad Ochocinco = Here's a shot in the dark... Johnson? 
Ovy = He's Russian, I don't want a fight.  Ya know what, Ovy is fine. 


These are quick thoughts today just what watching Sportscenter does to me.

Prepare For More Carolina Blues

With the first pick in the 2011 NFL Draft the Carolina Panthers select Cam Newton, the dual-threat Heisman winning quarterback from Auburn, shortly after they began kissing their Superbowl hopes for the next decade goodbye... Maybe I'm the only one who saw it.

You may wonder how I can be so sure this will be the case and I will swiftly respond...History. Sure history can change and if it does I'll eat my words, but this time that will be unlikely. Let's play a game. Off the top of your head can you name one great dual-threat quarterback that won a Superbowl? No? How about if you look through the pages of Superbowl history? Did you find one yet? No you didn't and do you want to know why. That's because since 1966, Superbowl I, it has never happened. A prolific running quarterback has never won a Superbowl, in fact the only time you can say a running quarterback even played in the Superbowl would be if you still considered Donovan Mcnabb one in 2004. I wouldn't, but maybe you would.

Sure they can make it to the conference championships like Michael Vick and they can have winning records in the regular season. They have just never won a championship.

Let's look over the last 15 years just for kicks-
Year              Winning QB            Losing QB
'10                Aaron Rodgers           Ben Roethlisberger
'09                Drew Brees                Peyton Manning
'08                Ben Roethlisberger      Kurt Warner
'07                Eli Manning                 Tom Brady
'06                Peyton Manning          Rex Grossman
'05                Ben Roethlisberger      Matt Hasselbeck
'04                Tom Brady                  Donovan Mcnabb
'03                Tom Brady                  Jake Delhomme
'02                Brad Johnson               Rich Gannon
'01                Tom Brady                   Kurt Warner
'00                Trent Dilfer                   Kerry Collins
'99                 Kurt Warner                Steve Mcnair
'98                 John Elway                  Chris Chandler
'97                 John Elway                   Brett Favre
'96                 Brett Favre                   Drew Bledsoe

See my friends, history doesn't lie and what it is telling us now is that Carolina might have been better off molding Jimmy Clausen. Now instead they must not only hope that Cam Newton is going to be the franchise quarterback, but that he will also be the first of his kind to ever win it all.

All I can say is... Good luck.