People like Julius Peppers - people so big and so athletic that "freak" is used as the ultimate compliment - need nicknames.
Well, Peppers has been in the NFL for eight seasons and still doesn't have a nickname. This is highly unacceptable.
Since making up terrible nicknames for people much greater than them is something sportswriters specialize in, I thought it was my civic duty to give Peppers a nickname. Julius "Hot In Herrrr" Peppers, perhaps?
But no. Dallas Mavericks center Brendan Haywood, Peppers' teammate on the North Carolina basketball team back in the early aughts, beat me to it.
"We called him 'Features,' " said Haywood, now a center for the
Dallas Mavericks. "Just all of his features -- his heads, his hands,
his feet -- all of them were so big."
"Features" it is. I am fully behind this.
Also from that Trib story: video of Julius Peppers throwing down a monster alley-oop during his Tar Heel days. For TUP, I'm not sure anything could be more relevant.
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Anyone else notice Haywood's Freudian slip of "headS"?
I wonder if what Haywood was getting as was that GO isn't the only one in the locker room anymore with a third leg.
Peppers is so cool.