The Josh Innes Show - The Greatest Athlete Name Ever

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

This weekend, I discovered a college football player who has the coolest name ever. This leads me down the path of which athletes had the coolest/weirdest names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So this weekend, I told you that football was the main thing I consumed. You know, I bet on a lot of shit. I bet on the WNBA because I'm a real degenerate. And I like betting like late quarter and late game overs. That's the same philosophy. It's the gistum. It's something I've done in every basketball league. But I've been doing it in the WNBA lately because that's the basketball that's been going on.

And it's been better, better good to me. So, hey, rock on, right? But this weekend, there was a football game featuring Sam Houston State and the Western Kentucky Hill Toppers. Now, it was a game that was won by Western Kentucky, and they won pretty easily over Sam Houston State. It was 41 to 24. But that's not the story. The story is I have just discovered who the quarterback is, what the name of the quarterback is at Western Kentucky. And I've never known this.

I had no idea who this person was. I didn't know, like, I had no clue. But this person has the coolest name in the history of sports. And we will get into that after these words. This episode is brought to you by Defender. With its 626 horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine, the Defender Octa is taking on the Dakar rally, the ultimate off-road challenge.

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Go get him. Starbucks, it's never just coffee. So I had never heard of this person, and maybe I should have, because I don't know if this guy has been around for a while. I don't know what his career arc. I mean, he asked, this guy's been the quarterback at Western Kentucky. Like, how have I not known this? This guy has been a quarterback in college football since 2002, and he's thrown for, like, I don't know, 7, 8,000 yards in college football. This is a guy I should know.

Maybe it's because he's the quarterback at Western Kentucky, and I'm assuming that's where he's been the quarterback. I don't know if Western Kentucky is where he started. I don't know his whole career story. But this gentleman out of San Angelo, Texas, is a senior at Western Kentucky. He is the starting quarterback, and he is Maverick McIver. MacGyver. Wow. Now that is a football gunslinger name, huh?

Like this person's parents are freaking studs. These are legendary parents who are like, you know what? That's our son, Maverick, McGiver. Now, it's not spelled like MacGyver. It's spelled M-C-I-V-O-R. Maverick, M-C-I-V-O-R.

But the dude has arguably, he shares names with two of the most iconic figures of the 1980s. Maverick from Top Gun. And of course, McGowan. He of like, oh, give me two toothpicks and some dentine and I'll make a bomb. That McGiver. Boy, his, like, I guess, like, going into it, the parents are like, well, our last name is McGiver.

And I'm like, I'm Steve and this is Janelle McGiver. What should we name our son? Well, let's give him some badass name. Like, with a name like Maverick McGiver, this guy had no choice but to be a badass football player. And by the way, he is a badass football player. So I'm looking at the over-unders on Saturday. for passing yardage and it's available for this game and the Sam Houston quarterback is like

you know like a hundred something or you know like 175 or whatever it was the over under for maverick mcguiver was over 300 and my man didn't disappoint 33 of 51 400 yards 8 yards per three touches no i nts the dudes a fucking beast the dude is a rock star Now, granted, that was against, you know, Sam Houston State. But, I mean, that's who you play there in Conference USA. You know who's in Conference USA now? Like, Conference USA used to be kind of an okay conference, you know? Like, that would be like Memphis and U of H and schools like that were in Conference USA.

Here's Conference USA now. Western Kentucky, Delaware, FIU, Jacksonville State, Kennesaw State, Liberty, Lotech, Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, New Mexico State, State, Utep, and Sam Houston. It's actually, like, those aren't bad for the most part. Those aren't bad football schools. Like, again, they're small schools, and obviously Conference USA is not the world where, like, Conference USA, especially in basketball, Conference USA used to be kind of a jam because you had Memphis back in the days of Calipari.

You had U of H. Well, U of H when they were in Conference USA, it wasn't a very good conference, but they weren't very good, but U of H was in there. Who the hell else was in Conference USA? like it wasn't, you know, Kennesaw State and Liberty. But these are all pretty solid football programs. I circle Conference USA and say, there's some betting opportunities for you kids this season because Jacksonville State's a good little football program.

Western Kentucky's a good little football program. Liberty is a good little football program. Law Tech is over here. Like, how the fuck are we still stuck in like a Conference USA? Law Tech is, I don't know how good they are anymore, but they're a decent-sized program. Sam Houston's a good football program So keep an eye on that But Maverick McGiver

What are some of the other badass names The dudes have had in sports? Let's see, I got a list here This is from Complex Let's take a look at the best names These aren't necessarily the coolest names This just says the most outrageous names For athletes in sports

All right, so let's take a look at this But of course, nothing's as cool as Maverick McGiver What a man McGiver was too Anybody know the actor that played McGiver? Anyone? Anyone? Richard Dean Anderson

could not tell you another thing that Richard Dean Anderson did but Richard Dean Anderson was McGiver Remember my grandpa used to watch MacGyver all the time. I remember very little about my great grandpa. My dad's grandpa died in like 1991, but for whatever reason I can remember McGiver being on the TV when we'd go visit them at their house.

I remember nothing else. I think he died in 1990 or 1991, but McGiver would be on. The guy like McGiver, from what I recall, I might be making that up in my mind, but I'm pretty positive. He was a big MacGyver guy. Maverick. God, like, how do you not get sick ass? Like, how?

It's like impossible to not get super late if your name is Maverick McGiver. Walk in, hey, goose, I think she's lost that love and feeling. Number 19 on this list is Wolfgang Wolf. He's a football, a soccer

guy. Wolfgame is a very popular German name, but having it with the last name Wolf, not as common. So this guy is with FC Kaiser Slaughtern, and his name is Wolfgang Wolf, pretty solid. I think that may be more badass than Maverick McGivor. But think about the connection there, like Wolfgang, like Wolfgang is a cool name, like Wolfgang Van Halen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like, I think if I ever have a kid, I'm going to name him Wolfgang.

I think that's what I've decided. I'm never going to have a kid unless, you know, like by accident. And it would be an immaculate conception, okay? So I'm going to say it's not going to happen. But if it does, I've already decided our kid's going to be named Wolfgang. Let's see. That's number 19. Number 18, this guy's name is Two Boys, Gamedi from the Panama City Pirates of Soccer.

His name is Two Boys. Kyle Sackwright. This guy rules. He was the tight end at Michigan State. When, I don't know. but this guy's name was Kyle Sackrider. That's not a cool name. Like Maverick McGiverrower is a cool fucking name.

Kyle Sackrider, like that's the name of a cuck. Not saying that Kyle Sackrider himself is a cuck. But Kyle Sackrider of Battle Creek, Michigan, he of the Michigan State Wolverines. Kyle Sackrider is not exactly like, that's not a cool name. That's an unfortunate name. Oh, this guy played for the Redding, ball club and actually eventually played for the Philadelphia Phillies. His name is Steve Sharts.

Steve Sharts. Let's see. This guy's name is Mo, M-O-H-B-O-H-B-I-T-Y, B-I-T-Y, played at North Texas. His name is Mobility. Solid. Do you think they did that on purpose? I think so. Dick Butkus.

That's not really a funny name. Let's see. Pig Cage. He was at the, oh yeah, I remember him from UTSA. I remember that name. Pig Cage. Kool-Aid McKinstree. That's a cool fucking name.

Like going by Kool-Aid, like you have to be good, though, to do that. Like to have a badass name like Kool-Aid McKinstry, you have to be very good at football or you just seem like a dipshit. But if you're very good at football, Kool-Aid McKinstree is a badass name. Let's see. Will Klapp. That's, of course, the offensive line. and for the Chargers who went to LSU will clap.

Have Dick will clap. Let's see. De Realist Clark. Ah, he's a classic. De Realist. D-A. apostrophe. R-E-A-L-Y-S-T.

De Realist Clark. He goes to Defiance College. So it went to it. It was the Defiance College team. DeColdest Crawford. Now that's the dude. He went to LaTecke, but DeCold. Did he go to Nebraska?

So I think DeColdus Crawford went to Nebraska, signed with Nebraska, and then eventually went to LaTac. But here's the thing. If you're going to give your kids names like Kool-Aid and DeColdest, they better fucking be good at something in the arts or in sports. Because like if you're trying to get a job at like J.P. Morgan with the name DeColdest, you're probably fighting an uphill battle. So you better be good at fucking football, basketball, baseball, rapping, gospel singing,

folk singing, country singing, something in the arts or athletics. Because, like, it's, you just, you do not hear of people who are bank tellers named DeColdest. You know, like, hello, I'm DeColdest. How can I help you? You don't get that very often. General Booty, he of the football playing booty family, general booty. The Booty Klan, they did a solid name. Like, you had the normal name like Josh Booty who went to LSU and Abram Booty who went to LSU.

But then you had John David Booty and then, of course, General Booty. That just sounds like, you know, like some chick that's in porn. Luscious P-U-S-E-Y. His name is Luscious P-U-S-E-Y. That's strong. The story says there is not an official person. pronunciation. But I will make the official pronunciation pussy. P-U-S-E-Y, luscious pussy. He's a football player from Eastern Illinois. Of course, the classic, Dick Trickle, the NASCAR driver, Dick

Trickle. This gentleman here from Pennsylvania played for the Milwaukee Bucks, his name was Chubby Cox. Chubby Cox. It's girthy. I'm not, this is the guy. that's like Noah can't that that that dude is not the one Steve Ho You Fat that is Steve ho you fat um he was a basketball player in France Steve Ho-O-U-F-A-T ho-you-fat and let's see uh that's it actually Steve Ho-U-Fat would be the final one so those are wacky names and funny names but none of them are as cool as Maverick MacGyver. Like, Maverick MacGyver is a cool fucking name. Like, you have to, like, with a name like Maverick McGiver,

you had no choice but to be a badass quarterback. And the dude's got like a mustache. Like, the only thing cooler is if this guy's name was like Tom Selleck or something. Like, Maverick McGiver, find me a cooler name than Maverick McGiver. And then think of a guy named Maverick McGuire. and tell me what Maverick McIver should be doing, like what Maverick McIver's career should be. And the obvious answer is Maverick McIver. Like, it almost sounds like a name that would be made up, like, like, you're doing a parody

movie, like you're doing like a scary movie type of deal or an airplane type deal that's about like police officers and shit and like, this is Maverick McIver. Like it sounds like a name that you're deliberately making to sound goofy in a parody movie. but it just works maverick mcgyver what a fucking name for this guy this guy's got to be knee deep and pussy at western kentucky this guy's got to like be beating them off with a broom like no ladies there's ladies and i hope he refers to himself in the third person like i hope he calls himself maverick mcgiver i hope he's like ladies maverick mcgiver like look guys maver cannot dick you down again tonight i'm chafing i have dicked down too many broads my name is maver

Maverick McGiver. Like, and then he's a good-looking dude to boot. Like, how is this guy not the quarterback at USC? How is he the quarterback at Western Kentucky? This guy's being kept away from the world hiding away at Western Kentucky. This guy should be the quarterback at Alabama. Fucking Maverick McGiver. What a stud.