Bands named after athletes

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Luscious Jackson
Pele

Basterdized names count too (if not more so):
Gnarls Barkley
Cream Abdul Babar

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Rube Waddell

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Throneberry

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Athlete

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

There was a band in San Diego in the early '90s or so called The Purple Hand of Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Koufax.

MC Hammer's name comes from when he was playing baseball--after "Hammerin'" Hank Aaron.

― MaxReax, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Their name comes from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, Richie Ashburn, the center fielder of the New York Mets, was crashing again and again with Venezuelan Elio Chacón. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to collide with the 160 pound (73 kg, 11 stones 6 pounds) Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "Yo la tengo! Yo la tengo!" which is "I've got it" in Spanish.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Scott Studwell (The Band)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

The Delgados.

― everything, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Keane
Boom Boom Mancini
The Dean Malenkos

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Babe Ruth

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Parsley

― Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

The Mendoza Line
Yaz (OK, maybe not)

― Sam Engel (Sam E.), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Pearl Jam used to be Mookie Blaylock.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

cajun.do you live in tallahassee?

― yoyoyoyoyofish, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Dario G (named after Crewe boss Dario Gradi)

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

The Eagles

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

The Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chicago+Bears+Shufflin%27+Crew,+The

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Busta Rhymes -- named after Buster Rhymes, Oklahoma football player of the 1980s or '70s. (I always thought that Jarvis Redwine, a guy who played for Nebraska about the same time, was a good name for a band.)

Does The Outfield count?

Houston bluesman/soul singer Joe Medwick took that as his stage name from the St Louis Cardinal baseball Hall of Famer. He was also the guy who actually wrote "Further On Up The Road," but he sold it to Don Robey for a couple of bottles of whiskey.

― Fetchin Bones (Fetchin Bones), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Black Jack Johnson

― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Houston bluesman/soul singer Joe Medwick took that as his stage name from the St Louis Cardinal baseball Hall of Famer

So he decided Joe was a better stage name than Ducky (the original Joe Medwick's nickname)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Vida Blue

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and not a specific athlete, but the S.F. Seals should be mentioned.

― Sam Engel (Sam E.), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Man, I HATE to mention this one, but nobody has...
Sugar Ray
(runs the hell outta here)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Salako
Summerbee

― hull yeah yeah hull, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

That rapper Shaquille O'Neill.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

yoyoyoyoyofish: No I live in Chicago.

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

The All Sports Band.

― mike a, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Coco Laboy.
mid-70's middle infielder of the Montreal Expos and late 90's math rock band.

― Ben H (Ben H), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

There is currently some emo or indie band out of New Hampshire that goes by Larry Bird.

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Does a collection of sportspeople count? If someone's getting The Eagles, I'm having

St Etienne
Boca Juniors
Kaiser Chiefs

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 April 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

The Delgados

Eh?

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

this is a song rather than a band, but st etienne had a song called 'conchita martinez'. i think this was recorded BEFORE martinez won wimbledon, impressively!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

The Delgados

Eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Delgado

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

But are they named after him?

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Yep.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

That's a bit odd

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

They also had albums called Domestiques and Peloton to prove their velo luv.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Ah, see I've never taken any notice of anything they've ever done

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

They fill me with indifference.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)

The great Jamaican sprinter Don Quarrie was namechecked on Morrissey's last album, in the title You Are D Quarrie

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and REM paid tribute to the greatest downhill skiier of all-time in "Losing My Religion": "Oh life, Zubriggen, Zubriggen than you..."

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Bake McBride

Blue Moon Odom

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

fIREHOSE named a tour after James Worthy - that's all I got.

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure El Guapo is named after the heavyset relief pitcher Rich Garces, who is better known by that nickname...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

A big one: Yo La Tengo

From Wikipedia:

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

If you start a thread called "Bands named after athletes," is that really your idea of a good time, or do you just want to be down with the thread-startin' crew?

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

hi kornrulez6969, i already posted that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh life, Zubriggen, Zubriggen than you...

Indeed, Dom, and James paid tribute to the French football genius:

Oh Zidane Oh Zidane Oh Zidane / Zidane next to me

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

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