What's in a name...?

My name is Andrew. I live and am from Phoenix, AZ. 602 is one of the area codes here. I’ve been a hardcore Cardinals fan for about 7 years. Just started really getting into them one year and never stopped. Now if I see anything with a Cardinals logo on it, I MUST buy it. My girlfriend hates that.

Its actually short for Heavy Chevy. When I was in Iraq I worked out a lot with my buddies. I’m a pretty thick dude bit I’m 5’9’’ and most people think I’m only about 200-205 lbs. Boy are they surprised to hear I’m actually 240 lbs. When we got on the scale one day after working out, all my buddies were like DAMN Heavy Chevy! It just stuck so I’ve been Heavy Chevy, Heavy or just plain Chevy for years now.

…but the guy that runs the Ravens’ blog uses that screen name. “Rexx” has been my nickname since fifth grade when I went through a “I hate my given name” phase. It’s my son’s middle name, one he’s quite proud of since Commander Rex showed up on a Star Wars cartoon. With “Rexx” taken I fell back to “Hawkwind” out of habit, also so it’d match my azcentral.com posting name. If you’re curious about the rock band Hawkwind, YouTube is ripe with footage spanning their 40-year existence. “Silver Machine” is their most recognizeable song to old stoners with Lemmy on vocals.

Heavy Chevy, it all make sense now!

I’m curious as to what kind of vermin AkVermynking is king of? Alaska vermin tends to be a little different than our rats and argentine ants of the Lower 48. Mosquitos? Brown bears? Lonely, drunk lumberjacks?

The Cards have fans in Greece as well :p

I moved to AZ with the Cards in 88, and have always been a fan, even though even in elementary school I got made fun of for wearing my Cardinals gear.

After graduating high school, I lived in Brazil for a few years. In Portuguese, “Loirao” means “big blonde guy”, and even though I’m not as thick as Heavy Chevy, I’m a pretty big dude. Loirao is always taken as a username, so I added the bc part to it, which is short for Battle Cat, from the He-Man cartoons I used to watch as a kid. So put them together, and you’ve got bcloirao.

Good idea hev—I always wonder what people’s usernames are all about. And Hawkwind—thanks for keeping things moving, even in the offseason. The momentum is good, and its got to feel good being quoted on ESPN, right?

My name is Scott Cook. I was a fan of the Cowboys when i was little because my dad and Danny White are friends. Once I grew up and realized the Cowboys were all hoped up on goof balls I switched to the Cards (about age 10) and have been a die hard ever sicne.

My username sc464 is one given to me by the Real Estate board of AZ as a sign on, just used it for everything else since.

refers to a particular baseball team (who you may have heard of) which accomplished something incredibly special (which you may have witnessed) when I was in 6th grade.

Been a huge Diamondbacks fan ever since and I used it to join the AZ Snakepit as my first SBN blog. It feels weird posting on other blogs with this handle, but I don’t want to create another account and lose all of the data associated with this one.

Never really been a Cardinals fan because of the constant heartache, and my primary sports influence (Dad) didn’t have an NFL team, so neither did I. It sure was fun to watch the Cards in the playoffs this year being far from home. So, I may have become a fan after this year. Only time will tell.

All the people post who don’t normally post. I know we have a lot of readers only. Just nice to see some new faces.

one of my good friends and I started playing in a bowling league every Saturday night. My Aunt, Uncle, Mom & Dad were on one team and my buddy and I teamed up with a couple from my dad’s work. There were these creepy Eastern Euro dudes that were next to us when we first started. Every time they bowled a strike they’d yell, “BOOGATT!” and pound a beer. So we named our bowling team the “Boogatt’s”. I signed up my yahoo account later under that same name but added the 66 because it was my college football number. It’s an easy name to remember and it’s never taken so I always use it.

I later found out through one of my dad’s co-workers’ that was from Romania that “Bugat” means of great wealth or privileged.

Stands for the white-trash, hillbilly, run-down, meth infested, “wales vagina” of the Phoenix metro area. “Apache ‘Malfunction’ Junction” located about 30 miles east of Phoenix for those of you from out of state.

Been all about the Cardinals for as long as I’ve been a football fan, which is only about 4-5 years.

when my uncle took me to my first Cardinals game… years later he passed away and since the first time I went to Sun Devil Stadium they have a very special place in my heart… and they also have a special place in my younger brother’s heart; we are both from Hermosillo, Mexico and we have contracted Sunday Ticket for a long time, to watch them play, because most of their games are not shown in Mexico… hope that changes this next season.

My screenname is “The Bird” because my last name is Bird, which I think is a pretty cool last name for a Cardinal fan to have.

Been a Cardinals fan since moving to Arizona in 1989, though now I live in Southern California.

Bad, because i’m not a good person.
Matty, because thats my name.
53, because my penis 53 1/8ths of an inch long when fully erect.

“caffiene addict.” I drink a lot of coffee…

since the days of Charley Johnson, Sonny Randle, Jim Bakken, Pat Fisher, and Larry Wilson.

but have lived in Tucson for about 14 years, (non-consecutively) and have followed the local boys as my secondary team since the start of the Dave McGinnis days — Jake The Snake and all that.

My screen name is easy, CardsFan and the year I became a member of the red sea ’08.

I’ve only been a hardcore fan for three years. But I plan to have season tickets as long as I can possibly afford them.

I live in San Diego and drive to four games and sell the others to family and friends at cost. Let me know if anyone is interested this year in picking up a game or two off of my hands. I believe it will be 92.50 × 2 with a free parking pass.

original with another name only to find out it’s been taken. I tried coming up with many other names and ran into the same issue. I almost picked the name randomDbackfan out of frustration, but settled on this one. I’ve had it for 5 years now and when I joined the snakepit 3 years ago, brought it with me. You’ll see me post on azcentral.com and the main MB at DBacks.com using this handle.

Every one of my teams is red or a shade of red except for the Kings (but even they are purple which is a shade of red and blue if I remember anything from 1st grade finger painting.) I played HS basketball and was generally only good for one 3pt shot and then coach telling me to foul at the end of games. A couple of friends started calling me Red Reign. Didn’t really stick though. If I could re-do it then I would have gone with “Boom Got Them Tho.”

Triple digits for comments.

Clearly we’re all suffering withdrawal symptoms with the season over.

Right my name comes from the fact that I am a profesional poker player and I can’t be beaten due to all the luck I get from being related to a leprechaun!
Or is it because I love the Cardinals and am from Ireland – you decide!

My yahoo username is dumb and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.