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Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN
By Associated Press
Published October 7, 2006, 8:16 AM CDT


BILOXI, Miss. -- Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

Rusty Real, of D'Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn't alone.

Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network's 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

"We were the talk of the hospital," Rusty Real said. "The nurses kept asking my wife if she was really going to let her husband name him ESPN. She said, 'Oh, yes.'"

Cubbie Bear wrote:Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN
By Associated Press
Published October 7, 2006, 8:16 AM CDT


BILOXI, Miss. -- Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

Rusty Real, of D'Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn't alone.

Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network's 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

"We were the talk of the hospital," Rusty Real said. "The nurses kept asking my wife if she was really going to let her husband name him ESPN. She said, 'Oh, yes.'"

and MS wonders why folks in other states use them for a punchline...

Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And Very Little Else

bocanuts wrote:Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And Very Little Else

obviously you've never been there.

Reminds me of the "Seinfeld" episode where George wants to name his son 7. And gets mad when someone else does it first.

[quote="Cubbie Bear"]Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN

What I find amusing is that this isn't the first one! As names go....well...it's odd...but it's hardly the worst I've heard to be honest.

Another forum I go to has a huge thread on weird names we come across....the oddest I've found...a poor young man my old home town paper's marriage licence listing was call 'Starseed' and just other other day there was a CNN article about two brothers convicted of conspiracy of murder for hire (they were going to bump off a witness to another shooting) name Time and Skywalker.

The most thoughtless I've ever seen is Peter Orifice. I thought it was a joke, but he's in the phone book (he runs a fence company in the Boston area).

But Espn is just a dumb name for a kid, and the kid is doomed if his parents aren't smart enough to realize that.

Most bizarre name I've ever seen: Saviour God-Scientific Allah

Sadly, the name made the news earlier this year when the 15-month-old baby fell out of a seventh story window and died.

I think the strangest name I've ever heard of was Orangejello (pronounced Or-Ahn-Jeh-Lo). He went to school with a friend's sister in Miami.

Coconuts wrote:The most thoughtless I've ever seen is Peter Orifice. I thought it was a joke, but he's in the phone book (he runs a fence company in the Boston area).

But Espn is just a dumb name for a kid, and the kid is doomed if his parents aren't smart enough to realize that.

I don't think the kid is doomed. I grew up with an odd name for my area (Soraya is my real name, common in many areas of the world....not on a small island in Lake Erie)....and yes, I was teased something horrid.

Anymore....I note that in the schools my daughter has been to (and this included several years in the same district I grew up in).....unsual names aren't even blinked at. They may be in some areas...but it just isn't a given like it used to.

Espn....most people are going to think it's something like a place name....a strange spelling of Aspen or something.

Frank Zappa named HIS kids "Dweezil" and "Moon Unit."
Granted, it was the 1960's when everybody went out of their way to be stupid, but still......................................................

Soraya wrote:

Coconuts wrote:The most thoughtless I've ever seen is Peter Orifice. I thought it was a joke, but he's in the phone book (he runs a fence company in the Boston area).

But Espn is just a dumb name for a kid, and the kid is doomed if his parents aren't smart enough to realize that.

I don't think the kid is doomed. I grew up with an odd name for my area (Soraya is my real name, common in many areas of the world....not on a small island in Lake Erie)....and yes, I was teased something horrid.

Anymore....I note that in the schools my daughter has been to (and this included several years in the same district I grew up in).....unsual names aren't even blinked at. They may be in some areas...but it just isn't a given like it used to.

Espn....most people are going to think it's something like a place name....a strange spelling of Aspen or something.

It's not the odd name factor, it's the fact that the parents named their son after a tv channel, and the sports channel at that- it just doesn't bode well for their parenting skills. Uncommon names are fine (I've only met a few other Lenoras, and I wasn't teased for that growing up).

Coconuts wrote:It's not the odd name factor, it's the fact that the parents named their son after a tv channel

That's the sad part. I hope that ESPN merges with another network in the near future and has a corporate name change. Then what? You'll change the kid's name? I like uncommon names, there's usually an interesting story behind them. But ESPN? That's just stupid.
though it's still better than naming him Stuart Scott

Didnt some one famous or "supposedly famous" name thier brat that a few years ago????

Cubbie Bear wrote:Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN
By Associated Press
Published October 7, 2006, 8:16 AM CDT


BILOXI, Miss. -- Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

Rusty Real, of D'Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn't alone.

Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network's 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

"We were the talk of the hospital," Rusty Real said. "The nurses kept asking my wife if she was really going to let her husband name him ESPN. She said, 'Oh, yes.'"

I graduated from HS in Pampa

I went to school with a girl whose name was Candy Dish-that would not be a lot of fun to deal with.

The worst name I ever saw was Neptune Pringle, Jr. bad enough name to begin with, but some guy who had suffered with that name still went ahead and gave that name to his son!

I deal with names every day,, you should see some of them



I was in High School with a girl named Ima.... yep her last name
was pronounced, but not spelled Whore..

springparrot wrote:

Cubbie Bear wrote:Sports Fan Names Newborn Son ESPN
By Associated Press
Published October 7, 2006, 8:16 AM CDT


BILOXI, Miss. -- Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.

Rusty Real, of D'Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn't alone.

Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network's 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

"We were the talk of the hospital," Rusty Real said. "The nurses kept asking my wife if she was really going to let her husband name him ESPN. She said, 'Oh, yes.'"

I graduated from HS in Pampa

said Molly ESPN Springparrot...

PJ wrote:I think the strangest name I've ever heard of was Orangejello (pronounced Or-Ahn-Jeh-Lo). He went to school with a friend's sister in Miami.

ah, then you've never heard of Usnavy. Another cuban name. It comes from the first thing the rafters saw.