Nickname Alert: Garoppolo is “Pancho”

[PatsFanInVa]

Nobody thought of Pancho Sanza, Don Quixote's follower and helpmate?

Thought of it, scratched my head, looked it up agin', and, whoops.

That's Sancho Panza.

I do like Garp, as in "The World According To..."

We're still in the honeymoon period with maybe-another-clipboard-holder, maybe-an-heir-apparent... but if he starts to truly suck, we can call him Janeane Garafolo.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Clearly others got there first on the Sancho/Pancho issue. D'Oh.

 

[RayClay]

Sancho Panza?

 

[shmessy]

With all due respect to the greatest quote machine hockey coach who ever lived, how about "Grapes"?

 

[supafly]

If only Jimmy G could take a page from Larry Izzo's sideline antics, a proper nickname would instantly appear.

To be honest though, I believe his nickname is yet to be determined. Something he'll do will help to define him down the road, in my opinion.

 

[Joker]

Yes...I can see it now ....THE WRATH OF "GRAPES"...

 

[PP2]

Quite possibly a clue where Garo's new nickname came from:

http://bostonherald.com/sports/patr..._garoppolo_earns_faith_admiration_of_patriots

 

[KTMbi]

Pancho (short for Francisco, or Frank) is so Latino that in Spain Latino immigrants are called "panchos" or "panchitos" (little panchos).
I think its popularity is related to the famous Pancho Villa, the man Mexicans feel proud of because "he was the first person to invade continental US".

 

[ATippett56]

Nobody thought of Pancho Sanza, Don Quixote's follower and helpmate?

It's Sancho Panza not Pancho Sanza.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho_Panza

However, you can continue ......

"To dream ... the impossible dream ..."

 

[PatsFanInVa]

I think its popularity is related to the famous Pancho Villa, the man Mexicans feel proud of because "he was the first person to invade continental US".

I thought that's why they were proud of Columbus... and if he doesn't count, what about all those Brits that invaded the continental U.S. 2 different times?

Anyhoo... it's also just as likely that Jimmy got busted wearing one of these numbers on a rainy day in practice... or worse yet, a not-rainy day when it might rain...

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Of course, if they want to give him a hard time, they could research his middle name and hope it's Andy or Aaron or something. Then they can call him JAG...

 

[Tunescribe]

Then they can call him JAG...

That's just awful. So is "Pancho." d%#*!@t, the man's heritage is ITALIAN! How about Il Conquistatore ... Padrone ... Maestro ... Mostro ... Capo ... Anything but "jag" or "Pancho."

 

[PatsFanInVa]

I guess there's always Garibaldi if you're getting all nationalist here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi

Maybe Fiat?

Garapochino? But then if he marries a supermodel we have to say "hold the whipped" every time we talk about him...

Just plain old Garoppolo Quick Delivery, and let the pizza joke go unspoken?

 

[KTMbi]

I thought that's why they were proud of Columbus... and if he doesn't count, what about all those Brits that invaded the continental U.S. 2 different times?

British invasions are not explained in Mexican primary schools, just Pancho Villa (real name: José Doroteo Arango) and his revolutionary bandit-like army assaulting the U.S. By the way, Columbus never landed in continental U.S. or Mexico; Columbus remains a controversial figure for Mexicans in Mexico because he was a pioneer of the Spanish invasion of Mexico, and Pancho Villa led his raid (just a few hours) in Columbus, New Mexico.
Sorry for the off-topic.

 

[Joker]

and don't forget
Joaquin Murrieta

the mexican Robin Hood and father of La Rasa...

 

[Tunescribe]

and don't forget
Joaquin Murrieta

the mexican Robin Hood and father of La Rasa...

Il Duce

 

[goheels22002]

It's just "Ponch." Like CHiPs. You know, Ponch and Jon:

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[weswelker#83]

Looks like actor Christopher Reeve




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