It’s time to kick back a little.
Between seasons, I’m challenged by trying to remember the spelling of the returning players as well as all the newbies on the Green Bay Packers’ roster – most of whom will be just a memory come September. This might help me.
While we await the first real action of the season – minicamp on June 13 – we might as well have some fun, Trivial Pursuit style, with the names of the 90 guys currently on the Packers’ roster. Challenge your Packers’ friends for bragging rights. Answers below.
- What is the most common first name on the Packers and how many players have that name?
- Who has the longest last name?
- Who has the second-longest last name?
- Whose name is Russian for “earth boy”?
- How many good Irish or Scottish names (Mc or Mac) are on the roster?
- Who has the shortest first name?
- What ethnicity is the name Bakhtiari?
- What Packer or Packers have a hyphen in his/their name(s)?
- What’s the most common last name on the roster?
- Who on the roster is Samoan?
- Whose first name means “my angel boy” in Hebrew?
- Whose first name is Spanish for “gift from God” or Italian for “gift?”
- Name at least three of the five Packers with the same first and last name initials.
- Who has a two-word first name?
- His name is often said before jumping out of or into something.
- Whose name is also that of a breed of horse?
- Whose first name is Arabic for “handsome?”
- Name at least three Packers who share their last name with that of a U.S. President?
- Who has the most unusual name (three acceptable choices)?
- His first name means “from the angel” in Italian.
- Name at least 10 players whose last name is a fairly common male’s first name.
- Name at least two players whose last name is also a female’s first name.
- Name at least two pairs of Packers with the same first name pronunciation, but different spellings.
- Name two Packers with last names that are colors
- How many Packers’ first names start with “J” – A. 8-11, B. 12-15, C. 16-19, or D. 20-23?
- Name at least four players with two capital letters in either their first or last name.
- Name three out of the four letters that are tied with being the first letter of the most Packers’ last names.
- Quick – name at least one player who shares a first or last name with a name of one of the four Beatles.
- Name at least two players who have a Q, X or Z in their name.
- Which is it for cornerback Randall: Damarious, Damaryious, Demaryius, Demarious or Demaryius,?
- This new player shares the name of a Packers guard for the 1996 Super Bowl champs.
Answers
- The Packers have five Aarons – Jones, Pack, Ripkowski, Rodgers, Taylor. Also, three Joes and Davids.
- No contest, 13 letters in (Josh) Letuligasenoa
- Ricky “Jean Francois” – two words, 12 letters
- Demetri Goodson, but I don’t think he’s Russian
- Two: (Max) McCaffrey and (Justin) McCray
- Ty Montgomery
- Bakhtiari refers to a nomadic people ranging between Isfahan and Kermanshah, Iran.
- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. You sometimes also see “Jean Francois” hyphenated, but that’s incorrect.
- Jahri, Marwin and Thomas all have the last name Evans. The Packers also have a pair of Adamses, Clarks, Joneses, Matthewses (one with two Ts), Rodgerses and Taylors
- Josh Letuligasenoa
- Malachi Dupre
- Donatello Brown
- Geoff Gray, Jeff Janis, Kevin King, Max McCaffrey, Richard Rodgers
- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
- Geronimo
- Morgan Burnett
- Jamaal Williams
- Davante and Montravius Adams, and Aaron and Lane Taylor
- You pick: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, Lenzy Pipkins, Geronimo Allison
- DeAngelo Yancey
- Johnathan Calvin, Kenny and Michael Clark, Jayrone Elliott, Reggie Gilbert, Jordy Nelson, Ty Montgomery, Nick Perry, Lucas Patrick, Damarious Randall, Jake Ryan, Aaron and Lane Taylor, and Joe Thomas; and a few less ordinary first names: Martellus Bennett, Kentrell Brice, Trevor Davis, Kevin King and Christian Ringo
- Jeff Janis, Geronimo Allison, and Aaron and Lane Taylor
- Brian Price and Bryan Bulaga, Davante Adams and Devante Mays, Jeff Janis and Geoff Gray, Derek Hart and Derrick Mathews
- Geoff Gray and Donatello Brown
- C: There are three Joes and Joshs, two Jacobs and Justins, and a Jahri, Jake, Jamaal, Jason, Jayrone, Jeff, Jermaine, Johnathan and Jordan – 19.
- A trick question of sorts. First names: Ha Ha, LaDarius, and DeAngelo; last names: Clinton-Dix, Jean Francois, McCaffrey, and McCray.
- At eight each, B, C, M and R
- Only one, Christian Ringo
- Quinten Rollins, Izaah Lunsford, Blake Martinez, Max McCaffrey, Lenzy Pipkins
- Damarious – The Broncos’ receiver is Demaryius Thomas.
- Safety Aaron Taylor
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