| This Sporting Life Terminology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Player name | Term | Reason |
| Braith Anasta | The most overrated man in Rugby League | Came about as a result of repeated Rugby League player polls in which Anasta was often nominated as the most overrated player by his peers. |
| Martin Bella | Squirrel Gripper | Came about as a result of Bella's penchant for employing the "squirrel grip" or "Christmas handshake" which involves firmly gripping an opponent's testicles during a tackle performed in the sport of Rugby League. |
| The Bellaphant | ||
| Danny Buderus | Butterball Buderus | Because of his poor ball handling in a State of Origin match. |
| Dean Brogan | Dick Head | Brogan took exception to being called Dick Head at Adelaide Airport by a heckler and punched the offender in the nose, he was subsequently fined by the AFL and Port Adelaide. |
| Ben Cousins | Rolled Note | Derived from Cousins's after-hours work with the white powder. |
| Ben Off The Gear Cousins | Developed after Cousins declared himself clean and ready to resume his football career. | |
| Greg Dowling | Dish-head Dowling | |
| Ben Elias | Backdoor Benny | Often shortened to simply The Door or B.D.B. Elias. |
| Israel Folau | The Queensland wunderkind | Refers to a newspaper report; often said sotto voce to show Slaven's displeasure with the use of a German word. |
| Richard Fromberg | Clay court specialist | Refers to one good tournament that Frommers had on clay. Ever after he was considered Australia's clay court specialist. |
| Mark Gasnier | Fire Up Bitch! aka "The Fire Up Bitch Man" | Gasnier was fired from the 2004 New South Wales State of Origin team for leaving an obscene voice mail message on a woman's mobile phone after a 'bonding session'. The transcript of the phone message is as follows:
"Where the fuck are you? There's four toey humans in the cab and our cocks are fat and ready to spurt sauce. It's 20 to four...and you're in bed, fuck me. Fire up, you sad cunt." Roy and HG also shorten this nickname to variations such as "the F.U.B.", "fubby" and "the fubster". |
| The Shimmy, Shimmy, Whoosh! Man. | From an NRL Pog describing Gasnier's step maneuver as the Shimmy, Shimmy, Whoosh. | |
| Dare I say | A reference to the frequent use of "Dare I say" as a preface to comments in Marks regular newspaper column which appears in the Daily Telegraph. | |
| Mark Geyer | The Tap | He can run hot and cold, or "turn it on" i.e. on-field violence. By extension, Geyer's younger brother Matt is "Tap II". |
| Barry Hall | Hitman | 'Hitman' came about due to Roy & HG looking for a nickname for Hall to make his boxing debut under. |
| Barry Deck The Hall | Another nickname that was developed for Hall's boxing career. | |
| Solomon Haumono | Captain Feathers | Constructed due to the lack of a fighting name for Haumono when he began his boxing career following his rugby league career. |
| Jarryd Hayne | Hip-Head | As a result of Hayne being knocked out momentarily after attempting to make a tackle in State of Origin 3, 2008 in which his head cannoned into his opponent's hip. |
| Mark Hensby | The forgotten man of Australian golf | A reference to Hensby's laments in national newspapers that he was the "forgotten man" of golf. |
| Lleyton Hewitt | Little | Due to Hewitt's diminutive size. |
| Terry Hill | King of the Kids or The Lobster Fisherman | The latter title derived from an incident after his playing days, when Hill was caught stealing lobsters from pots that didn't belong to him, resulting in Hill facing the magistrates' court, where he his defence was that he "didn't know what he was doing". |
| John Hopoate | Stinkfist, The Proctologist | A reference to an infamous incident during a 2001 NRL game when, in an attempt to unsettle the opposing team, Hopoate forcibly pushed his finger into the anuses of three opposing players. This led to speculation by Roy & HG that Hopoate may have in fact been acting as an unofficial proctologist and that he was doing the players a favour because his impromptu rectal examination may have detected early signs of serious illness. |
| Alan Jones | The Parrot | |
| Senator Rod Kemp | The "Eh-Eh" Man | Kemp is the former federal Minister for Arts and Sport (2001–2007) whose nickname parodies his halting manner of speech. In the final years of the series Kemp was often held up as a supposed model of excellence in his portfolio, usually by way of an unfavourable comparison with the current incumbent (e.g. "This wouldn't have happened if The Eh-Eh Man was still in charge, Roy!"). On one occasion Roy summed up Kemp's distinctive facial hair (a beard without a moustache) by saying "He's got that type of beard that says 'I'm a failed psychologist' ". |
| Glenn Lazarus | The Brick With Eyes | The nickname is because of Glenn's large, solid physique. Roy and HG have also called him "Dr Death". The United Kingdom's The Sun newspaper once got this name wrong and called him "The Brick with Ears". |
| Dr Death | ||
| Wally Lewis and Allan Langer | The King and I | A reference to the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Wally Lewis's nickname is 'King Wally', making his team-mate Allan Langer the 'I'. Langer was usually referred to as "Deborah Kerr", the actress who played the "I" in the movie version with Yul Brynner. |
| Greg Norman | The Paleface Adios of Golf | A reference to Norman's drawn-out career. |
| G.W. Shark | ||
| Willie Mason | The Brainstrust | A satirical reference to the fact that Mason's well-known propensity for aggressive behaviour was explained by the fact that he reportedly suffers from an autism spectrum disorder. |
| The New Face of the Eastern Suburbs | ||
| Les Mason | Mad-Dog | Introduced due to the lack of a nickname for Mason, as compared to Captain Feathers and Stinkfist. |
| Steve Menzies | Beaver | Other Roy and HG name variations include "Beav", "The Flying Beaver" and "Leave it to Beaver" along with "Beaver Las Vegas". |
| Methuselah | A poke at Menzies' relatively old playing age in the twilight of his career. | |
| Steve Mortimer | Prince of Darkness | |
| Mark Philippoussis | The dangerous floater | A double reference, both to the media constantly promoting Philippoussis as a hidden threat in tennis tournaments, and also a play on Philippoussis's nickname 'The Poo'. Usually invoked with reference to the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadow. |
| Julian O'Neill | The Poo in the Shoe | O'Neill, who has a history of off-field misconduct, including two DUI charges and urinating under casino blackjack tables on two separate occasions, was involved in a 1999 pre-season incident which led to his South Sydney Rabbitohs being banned from a Dubbo hotel. Following years of personal and professional turmoil, O'Neill trashed the Dubbo hotel room by smearing the walls with faeces. A direct quote from the horse's mouth describing a further bad deed from the night was "hey Schlossie, I just shat in your shoe". |
| Wendell Sailor | Ding Dong Dell | |
| Hello Sailor | ||
| Casey Stoner | The Real Deal | From an article in a local paper, in reference to his dominance in MotoGP, "The Real Deal" was used to describe Stoner as a genuine competitor for the Moto GP title. |
| Ricky Stuart | The Angry Ant | |
| Carlos Smearson | From 2009 when the Sharks played a home game in Adelaide their media manager organised a radio interview for Ricky Stuart on FIVEaa &, for a joke, told the station that his name was Carlos Smearson. That lead to an introduction along the lines of, "and now joining us it's the coach of the Cronulla Sharks NRL team, Carlos Smearson. Welcome to the show Carlos...." | |
| The Game's Greatest Thinker | ||
| Timana Tahu | Tim Tam Tahu | Named after the Australian chocolate biscuit brand, Tim Tams. |
| Kostya Tszyu | The Russian-born, Sydney-based powerhouse | A direct quote from a newspaper article. |
| Mark Webber | "The DNF Man", "DNF Specialist", "DNF Hero" | An acronym derived from the perception that the Formula One driver earned numerous "DNF" (did not finish) race results early in his Formula One career due to collisions or mechanical breakdowns. |
| Shane Webcke | BigPond | Taken from Webcke (Web-key) to Website and Australia's largest internet service provider Telstra Big Pond. |
| Karrie Webb | The Funnel | A reference to the Sydney Funnel Web Spider. |
| Tiger Woods | The man they call Tiger | A reference to sports reporter Tim Webster, who has a habit of constantly introducing sporting celebrities using the term "the man they call (first name)". |
| Kevan Gosper | Lord Gosper | A reference to Gosper's overly officious and self-righteous nature when it comes to matters concerning sport, particularly the Olympics . |
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