[CornFed]

How about we just call him Bryce Love and dispense with the need for corn.

Aw, c'mon Phogge.  I eat this stuff up!  😆

[CornFed]

How about we just call him Bryce Love and dispense with the need for corn.

Aw, c'mon Phogge.  I eat this stuff up!  😆

[BostonCard]

The Bryce is right. <groan>

[BostonCard]

The Bryce is right. <groan>

[SF_Cardinal_Fan]

Love hurts.

[SF_Cardinal_Fan]

Love hurts.

[Snorlax94]

Uuuggh!!!
This thread has touched upon one of my pet peeves for Stanford football and even (to some extent) Stanford as a whole -- we suck at nicknames!

We are often trapped in the past with ancient references.

The Cardinal Sports Day is called Cardinalpalooza, presumably named after Lollapalooza, a music festival from the 90s that ended in the US a long time ago.

I cannot think of a good Stanford nickname since Touchdown Tommy Vardell. During that era, there was this really big dude who would carry the Stanford flag on a flagpole and run around the field. And his name? Flagasaurus.

Even if we hate usc, calling Reggie Bush "The President" at least was original, though also obvious.

Years ago, Oregon had a super fast RB who got the nickname, "The Black Mamba."

Nicknames do not have to be a play on their name, or based on the formation they run out of. And they should not be references to movies or songs from before they were born.

So please, no Wild Love! (Although, that is absolutely the best of the three). And please, no more calling it Cardinalpalooza -- what is a Cardinalpalooza anyway?

[Snorlax94]

Uuuggh!!!
This thread has touched upon one of my pet peeves for Stanford football and even (to some extent) Stanford as a whole -- we suck at nicknames!

We are often trapped in the past with ancient references.

The Cardinal Sports Day is called Cardinalpalooza, presumably named after Lollapalooza, a music festival from the 90s that ended in the US a long time ago.

I cannot think of a good Stanford nickname since Touchdown Tommy Vardell. During that era, there was this really big dude who would carry the Stanford flag on a flagpole and run around the field. And his name? Flagasaurus.

Even if we hate usc, calling Reggie Bush "The President" at least was original, though also obvious.

Years ago, Oregon had a super fast RB who got the nickname, "The Black Mamba."

Nicknames do not have to be a play on their name, or based on the formation they run out of. And they should not be references to movies or songs from before they were born.

So please, no Wild Love! (Although, that is absolutely the best of the three). And please, no more calling it Cardinalpalooza -- what is a Cardinalpalooza anyway?

[ChicagoCard]

Lollapalooza is actually still a thing here in Chicago.

[ChicagoCard]

Lollapalooza is actually still a thing here in Chicago.

[Mick]

Uuuggh!!!
This thread has touched upon one of my pet peeves for Stanford football and even (to some extent) Stanford as a whole -- we suck at nicknames!

Bill Corbus, Stanford two-time All-American football player, honor student and student body president with the unquestioned coolest nickname of all time "The Baby Faced Assassin," so cool it launched a series of imitators around the globe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-faced_Assassin

[Mick]

Uuuggh!!!
This thread has touched upon one of my pet peeves for Stanford football and even (to some extent) Stanford as a whole -- we suck at nicknames!

Bill Corbus, Stanford two-time All-American football player, honor student and student body president with the unquestioned coolest nickname of all time "The Baby Faced Assassin," so cool it launched a series of imitators around the globe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-faced_Assassin

[Mick]

Any of these would be good...I can just imagine Chris Berman trying htem on for size...

Calling Dr. Love
Can't Buy Me Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What is Love?
Whole Lotta Love
When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leopard)
Love Kills (Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
Believe in Love (Scorpions)
Love Touch (Rod Stewart)
Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
Loud Love (Soundgarden)
Shot of Love (AC/DC)
Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper)
Love Unchained (Billy Idol)
Real Love (Smashing Pumpkins)

[Mick]

Any of these would be good...I can just imagine Chris Berman trying htem on for size...

Calling Dr. Love
Can't Buy Me Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What is Love?
Whole Lotta Love
When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leopard)
Love Kills (Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
Believe in Love (Scorpions)
Love Touch (Rod Stewart)
Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
Loud Love (Soundgarden)
Shot of Love (AC/DC)
Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper)
Love Unchained (Billy Idol)
Real Love (Smashing Pumpkins)

[Hank 91]

The art of the public nickname has been in long decline, probably beginning with television. Forced to make their subjects more colorful, newspaper reporters hung descriptive sobriquets on players to make them more identifiable. We think of Mickey Mantle as "the Mick," but long before that he was the Commerce Comet, a reference to his speed and his hometown of Commerce, Oklahoma. Nicknames today are either derivative or hopelessly obvious. We've got A-Rod, I-Rod, K-Rod, H-Rod, and every other initial-Rod, and then there are the things like CP3 or PG13. Nicknames gave us what we don't need anymore -- color. It's a shame, really.

In my recap of the Foster Farms Bowl, I paid tribute to those writers with this description of a McCaffrey punt return:

Maryland followed that score with another three-and-out, and when a booming punt pushed McCaffrey all the way back to his 17, it looked for a moment that the Terps might be able to take a breath. But then the Colorado Kid reminded us why we all get so breathless every time he touches the ball. He fielded the punt while drifting backwards, then made the first man miss and streaked up the middle and then towards the left sideline for a nifty 29-yard return.

The Colorado Kid. It's a shame I never went back to that.

[Hank 91]

The art of the public nickname has been in long decline, probably beginning with television. Forced to make their subjects more colorful, newspaper reporters hung descriptive sobriquets on players to make them more identifiable. We think of Mickey Mantle as "the Mick," but long before that he was the Commerce Comet, a reference to his speed and his hometown of Commerce, Oklahoma. Nicknames today are either derivative or hopelessly obvious. We've got A-Rod, I-Rod, K-Rod, H-Rod, and every other initial-Rod, and then there are the things like CP3 or PG13. Nicknames gave us what we don't need anymore -- color. It's a shame, really.

In my recap of the Foster Farms Bowl, I paid tribute to those writers with this description of a McCaffrey punt return:

Maryland followed that score with another three-and-out, and when a booming punt pushed McCaffrey all the way back to his 17, it looked for a moment that the Terps might be able to take a breath. But then the Colorado Kid reminded us why we all get so breathless every time he touches the ball. He fielded the punt while drifting backwards, then made the first man miss and streaked up the middle and then towards the left sideline for a nifty 29-yard return.

The Colorado Kid. It's a shame I never went back to that.

[BostonCard]

Any of these would be good...I can just imagine Chris Berman trying htem on for size...

Calling Dr. Love
Can't Buy Me Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What is Love?
Whole Lotta Love
When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leopard)
Love Kills (Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
Believe in Love (Scorpions)
Love Touch (Rod Stewart)
Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
Loud Love (Soundgarden)
Shot of Love (AC/DC)
Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper)
Love Unchained (Billy Idol)
Real Love (Smashing Pumpkins)

When Love Comes to Town (U2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3rXNPGFOM

BC

[BostonCard]

Any of these would be good...I can just imagine Chris Berman trying htem on for size...

Calling Dr. Love
Can't Buy Me Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What is Love?
Whole Lotta Love
When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leopard)
Love Kills (Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
Believe in Love (Scorpions)
Love Touch (Rod Stewart)
Big Love (Fleetwood Mac)
Loud Love (Soundgarden)
Shot of Love (AC/DC)
Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper)
Love Unchained (Billy Idol)
Real Love (Smashing Pumpkins)

When Love Comes to Town (U2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3rXNPGFOM

BC

[SamAtoms1980]

Giving some "love" to Erasure here:

Victim of Love

[SamAtoms1980]

Giving some "love" to Erasure here:

Victim of Love

[terry]

The Cardinal Sports Day is called Cardinalpalooza, presumably named after Lollapalooza, a music festival from the 90s that ended in the US a long time ago.

The word "lollapalooza" was around long before the music festival.

there was this really big dude who would carry the Stanford flag on a flagpole and run around the field. And his name? Flagasaurus.

If you're talking about the guy who carried the flag in the early 1990s, I heard that guy referred to as "Buns of Steel."

[terry]

The Cardinal Sports Day is called Cardinalpalooza, presumably named after Lollapalooza, a music festival from the 90s that ended in the US a long time ago.

The word "lollapalooza" was around long before the music festival.

there was this really big dude who would carry the Stanford flag on a flagpole and run around the field. And his name? Flagasaurus.

If you're talking about the guy who carried the flag in the early 1990s, I heard that guy referred to as "Buns of Steel."

[BostonCard]

lollapalooza |ˌläləpəˈlo͞ozə| (also lalapalooza or lollapaloosa)
noun North American informal
a person or thing that is particularly impressive or attractive: it's a lollapalooza, just like your other books.
ORIGIN
late 19th century: of fanciful formation.

FWIW

BC

[BostonCard]

lollapalooza |ˌläləpəˈlo͞ozə| (also lalapalooza or lollapaloosa)
noun North American informal
a person or thing that is particularly impressive or attractive: it's a lollapalooza, just like your other books.
ORIGIN
late 19th century: of fanciful formation.

FWIW

BC