Nicknames in the NFL | Page 2 | 49ers Webzone Forum

Sep 24, 2015 at 3:46 AM

Niners99
Veteran
Posts: 43,184

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
The best nickname I can recall is Dick "Night Train" Lane. Damn good football player too, in 1952 he intercepted 14 passes in his rookie year, still the record. They only played 12 games a year back then. A side note, he was married to jazz great Dinah Washington.

Cept how he got the nickname ruins it.

He was afraid to fly, so he used to take the night train to each city by himself before the games.

Sep 24, 2015 at 3:49 AM

#17

Niners99
Veteran
Posts: 43,184

btw, I like how the OP asked about nicknames of the others players on the 49ers, and just about every answer is past players on different teams...

Sep 24, 2015 at 4:41 AM

#18

phatbutskinny
Veteran
Posts: 27,247

DeAndrew White - Alabama
Kaepernick - Kap
Carlos Hyde - el guapo
Alex Boone - the rhino
Anquan boldin - Q

Just some off t top of my head

Sep 24, 2015 at 5:45 AM

#19

valrod33
Hall of Small
Posts: 137,970

Marcus "49ers should have drafted me" Peters

Sep 24, 2015 at 5:49 AM

#20

SoCold
Hall of Dumb
Posts: 127,795

Originally posted by valrod33:
Marcus "49ers should have drafted me" Peters

Aaron "49ers should have drafted me" Rodgers

Sep 24, 2015 at 5:51 AM

#21

valrod33
Hall of Small
Posts: 137,970

Aldon"49ers never should have cut me" Smith

Sep 24, 2015 at 6:18 AM

#22

FAS33
Veteran
Posts: 442

Whats Navoro Bowmans? The tank. Nah they should call him the real beastmode. Frick Marshawn Lynch

[ Edited by FAS33 on Sep 24, 2015 at 6:19 AM ]

Sep 24, 2015 at 6:21 AM

#23

SoCold
Hall of Dumb
Posts: 127,795

Originally posted by FAS33:
Whats Navoro Bowmans? The tank. Nah they should call him the real beastmode. Frick Marshawn Lynch

MON5T3R

Sep 24, 2015 at 6:22 AM

#24

SoCold
Hall of Dumb
Posts: 127,795

Originally posted by SoCold:
MON5T3R

Robowman

Navoro "I'm the last good player on the team" Bowman

Sep 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM

#25

JimA49ers
Veteran
Posts: 5,471

Originally posted by Kombi:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
The Hateful instead of the faithful ?

I see what you mean

Originally posted by FAS33:
Aussie here, and I rate the Seahawks a better chance to make the Super Bowl this year then the forty whiners.

Hey Aussie, the correct word is "than" when you are comparing things. So stick that in your vegemite.

Sep 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM

#26

JimA49ers
Veteran
Posts: 5,471

Originally posted by FAS33:
Whats Navoro Bowmans? The tank. Nah they should call him the real beastmode. Frick Marshawn Lynch

After not using lynch on the losing SuperBowl play, and with his decreased production this season, his new nickname is "Least-Mode."

Sep 24, 2015 at 7:16 AM

#27

NeeJ49er
Veteran
Posts: 9,580

Originally posted by SoCold:
OJ "Buck Knife" Simpson

Sep 24, 2015 at 9:45 AM

#28

jbeale49
Veteran
Posts: 1,054

The Inconvenient Truth, personal favorite With all due respect to Concrete Charlie.

Sep 24, 2015 at 9:47 AM

#29

RishikeshA
Veteran
Posts: 12,720

Originally posted by Niners99:
Cept how he got the nickname ruins it.

He was afraid to fly, so he used to take the night train to each city by himself before the games.

I heard that but I also heard the nickname is after Jazz Great Jimmy Forrest's rendition of "Night Train" 1952. Which also was Lane's rookie year.

Sep 24, 2015 at 12:28 PM

#30

Fresh49
Veteran
Posts: 2,940

Move to NFL talk maybe?