What's In A Name...Part Tres?

Not much to my name…it’s my name. When I joined SB Nation AZ as a staff writer there, Seth (the regional manager) wanted all of the writers, because it is meant to be a little less ‘bloggy’, use our name. Some of us use a pseudonym, but I like my name.

I’m not a Junior (middle names are all different), but I am one of four generations of Jess Root — my grandfather, my dad, my oldest son and I all are Jess Root.

Thx, hevchv. Thanks for sticking around and thanks to all th3 new readers!

Mostly an interested reader and fan plus an infrequent commenter, I’m from the Syracuse, NY area and grew up as a Jim Brown, of course, then Cleveland Browns fan. After the service years, I spent nearly 20 years in the Philadelphia area and converted to the Philadelphia Eagles. I ended up in AZ about five years ago and adopted the AZ Cardinals as “my” team. It seemed fitting that since the Cardinals were my second “bird” team that I adopt the moniker Birdman2.

I enjoy posts like this that help me get to know the fans behind the monikers. :-)

I wish I had a story or saying behind my username like “Super Groovy Man”, but I don’t. I could say it stands for “Student of General Medicine” since I’m a third-year student in medical school, but it just my boring initials…not very inventive, I guess.

Growing up in St. Louis, I was a huge Cardinals football fan. In 1979, the Cards drafted Roy Green, who quickly became my favorite player. Prior to the 1981 season, some Cardinals were supposedly going to be at a local store near their training facility for some promotion or something, so I convinced my dad to drive me down there to have Roy sign my jersey. Well, by the time we got there – my dad was at work – the players were long gone.

My dad talked to the store owner to see if anything was left over. As the owner went back into the store, my dad acted excited and said that the manager had one autographed Roy Green poster left. Then the owner came out with a poster of Roy Green signed “Roy Green Was Here.”

I don’t know who had the more disgusted look on their face – 10 year old me or my dad. Years later my dad told me he had told the guy to run in the back and sign the poster for Roy Green, since Roy Green was here…he said he didn’t factor in that the store owner was a complete idiot.

I left St. Louis the same year as the Cardinals, and have maintained my devotion over the long years. I still have the poster btw…

My tag here is pthesz, which I use everywhere I go on the internet. It is a combination of the first initial of my given name and my last name.

I have been here for 3 years (I think) and have been a Cardinals fan since they arrived here from St. Louis.

I am a regular reader and very occasional poster. Love this site. it is part of my daily internet reading.

Thanks for doing this again HevChev!

Go Cards!

I’m Jesse and I went to college in Santa Barbara, CA. Thus JesseSB.
Been a fan since 2004 and use to comment regularly on the Cardinals forum and found this place through a posters link. Found ROTB to much more civil and much better run.

Thx hevchev.
I’ve been a loyal Cards fan since the early 70’s when the Cards drafted Terry Metcalf. I don’t have a 2nd favorite team and I’ve always been subject to ridicule from freinds. I’m from Brooklyn, NY and I’ve only recently ever met other Cards fans. (on a cruise to the Bahamas). So finding this community of Cards fans has become an everyday read for me.
Cuckoo for Coco Puffs is from my daughters nickname.. (Nicole)…Coli, & then eventually Coco.

But I have loved the Cardinals since I was 8 living in Mesa and I was just figuring out what football was. I was a year behind Todd Heap in JR High (didn’t know him though) before I moved to PA where I’ve lived for the last 17 years.

I get a lot of funny looks when I tell people I’m a Cards fan, but it’s become part of me and I couldn’t imaginecheering for anyone else.

i headbang and I’m a cards fan. Pretty simple

Couldn’t come up with anything, so I came up with a robot who killed my favorite team’s opponents.

Born and raised in Alaska. As there is no pro teams in Alaska, I got to pick any team I wanted to root for. Took a trip to AZ as a kid when Suns were playing the Bulls in the championship and fell in love with the suns, which lead to falling in love with the Cards. I remember jumping around the room for joy on christmas morning when I got my very own jake plummer jersey. Unfotunately, don’t live in AK anymore, now in Miami, FL. I miss it dearly and hope to return there some day. Never been to a Cards game, also in my future :)

Latinized form of haderaere (middle high german) meaning “grumbler” from the verb hadern “to argue, to quarrel, to squabble, to tease”.

I adopted the Cardinals as my team as soon as it was announced they were moving to Arizona. I grew up a New England Patriots fan. Lived in Maine as a kid. Moved to Arizona a couple years before the Cardinals did. I find it amusing how much hate there is toward the Patriots because back when I was sporting their colors they were about as disrespected as possible. When I moved to the desert they had just suffered the then worst superbowl defeat ever. That was their first trip and very flukey (bottom seed). I see a lot of similarity with the Cardinals that way and can’t wait until they are equally reviled for their own success.

I just sort of stumbled onto Revenge of the Birds around Nov 2009. Been sucked in since.

Is part of my family nickname.

I remember watching the Browns as a lil man through all the good years 82-87. I was born in Cleveland in 78 and grew up watching the Browns. The disappointments by way of Elway and the Broncos are still etched in my mind. All the classic moments of the Browns failures still to this day present and all the jaw dropping catches by Brian Brennan. The battles with the Warren Moon lead Oilers still delight the old mind. Up until my teen years I was a Browns fan as it was bred into me. It was 1997 when I chose the Cards after picking up a magazine that laid out all the offseason comings and goings etc. I looked through the magazine team by team and chose the Cardinals. I always enjoyed choosing teams I thought had potential to be great. In ‘97 I was living with my Grandparents in WV and had come to enjoy watching Adrian Murrell at WVU and he was on the Cards roster. Between my time as a Browns fan and coming to choose my own team I watched football for the love of the game without a favorite. I grew to love Larry Centers Frank Sanders among many others and knew the Cardinals were my team. I haven’t regretted a moment of my fandom and I couldn’t root for any other. The Cardinals will be my team until I die. My handle here on ROTB is simple. Az for Arizona… 78 for the year I was born and true because I’m a fan no matter the up’s and downs – true fan.

…was the username I had on another Cardinals forum and when I found this one (link on AZ Republic in Aug. ‘08) I kept it to be consistent. Hawkwind is a prog/stoner band that’s as old as I am and best known for sacking Lemmy in ’76 so he could start Motorhead, the name of the last song he wrote with Hawkwind. I used to use this for my username when I could but found on a lot of sites it was already taken. So I use a more unique name on most other venues (tsrorexx on Twitter for example).

Back in ‘08 I was helping CGolden who was running the show then, then was ghost writing for him when work/wife crunch happened, he and I both faded into the background when Andrew took over. Still running the Pick’em Leagues out of habit and because it’s good to reconnect with the Cardinals’ fans again.

I have a good feeling about this season, I think the Cards will surprise a few “experts” this year. I don’t see a SB appearance this year but next year…you never know…

To make a long storey really short my family plays scrabble at a really competitive cut throat level and we always fight about whether urban slang is allowed. In one of these games I tried to use the word drull. My brother balked and went online to look it up and it appears in the urban dictionary which we allowed that game and therefore I won. The word stuck with me.

I have only ever had one person ask about my name and that was on Niner Nation by a guy trying to give me crap for spelling drooling wrong.

While that was an interesting take on my name you have to look up Drull in the urban dictionary to try to figure out what I was really going for http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drull

Drull has three definitions all of which describe how I feel about the Cardinals at some point in time almost every year:
1) a desire to literally rip someone’s head off and f them
2) a desolate sense of forgiveness
3) a feeling of nothingness

Well wrote one of these but apparently it didn’t make it up, so a quick replacement…… Moved to Phoenix in 1999 from Oregon (Ducks fan), and started watching the Cards, getting more and more into the team, probably a declared fan in 2003 / 2004 or so. Also a big dbacks and suns fan.

Last year I moved down here to Santiago, Chile where NFL is hard to find. Just watched the game at one of the very few sports bars here (that show football not just fútbol) yesterday and actually met another cards fan!! We’re very few down here and it is probably pretty legit to say im the biggest Cards fan in the country!!! So I consider myself a representative. Was recently in Arizona and even bought my chilean girlfriend a cards shirt, we’ll see if we can get her on board ;)

Here a lot, don’t post a lot, but I’m arround….. GO CARDS!!!!!!!