8 thoughts on “And for you sports fans, here’s Clowney on Fallon show”

1. Brad Warthen Post authorMay 8, 2014 at 11:40 am

   I actually learned from this clip how to pronounce Clowney’s first name. I had been wondering…
2. Phillip May 8, 2014 at 1:29 pm

   geez, Brad, you clearly don’t drive around with your radio tuned to 107.5 The Game…”the blowtorch of the Midlands” as they say…you would have the pronunciation drilled into your head since JD’s high school days in Rock Hill.
   1. Phillip May 8, 2014 at 1:30 pm

      sorry I meant JC of course. (I have a colleague named JD so I got confused).
   2. Brad Warthen Post authorMay 8, 2014 at 1:53 pm

      Obviously, I don’t. It’s a name I read (a LOT, I don’t need to tell you, and without trying), rather than a name I hear.

      I had just been wondering again this morning how to say it, and then I saw the clip.

      Sometime back, I asked an ardent Gamecock fan to tell me how to pronounce it, and he changed the subject. So I don’t think he was confident in his pronunciation, either…
   3. Brad Warthen Post authorMay 8, 2014 at 1:58 pm

      And it’s not that I haven’t heard him mentioned on TV or radio. It just seems that they always just call him “Clowney.”
3. Rose May 8, 2014 at 2:06 pm

   In another clip from earlier in the show, Fallon adopted Bob Hope’s tradition of bringing the football players out one at a time and saying a joke about them. Bob Hope was funnier, though. (And I think the players on his show were all-stars??)
   1. Barry May 8, 2014 at 11:06 pm

      Bob Hope would bring out the college football players that were voted AP All Americans.
      and yes- Bob Hope is funnier than Jimmy Fallon- and everyone else.
4. Doug Ross May 8, 2014 at 2:24 pm

   If you want to see a hilarious clip about football players’ names, you can’t beat this one.

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