So What If He Didn’t Use His First Name
... ook on the face of a staff member working at the Hall of Fame if you ask for David Jones. Request his nickname instead—Deacon. It is after all the single greatest ni ...
by: Stephen Czarda — NFL: The Redskins Blog 14 days ago
... ook on the face of a staff member working at the Hall of Fame if you ask for David Jones. Request his nickname instead—Deacon. It is after all the single greatest ni ...
by: Rich Tandler — Rich Tandler's Real Redskins 14 days ago
... it and he gave it its name. He was certainly not the modest type. As rookie David Jones decided his name wouldn’t get him noticed so he dubbed himself “Deacon”. " I ...
by: Associated Press — The Daily Sun 15 days ago
... he needed to stand out on the roster. "No one would remember a player named David Jones _ there are a thousand David Joneses in the phone book," he said. "I picked ...
by: BARRY WILNER — Miami Herald 15 days ago
... he needed to stand out on the roster. "No one would remember a player named David Jones - there are a thousand David Joneses in the phone book," he said. "I picked ...
by: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — NY Times 15 days ago
... he needed to stand out on the roster. "No one would remember a player named David Jones — there are a thousand David Joneses in the phone book," he said. "I picked ...
by: Mike Sando — ESPN: NFC West Blog 15 days ago
... nes. "Gino Marchetti was the superb defensive end of my playing time and for David Jones, he was probably the best I had ever seen, consistently," Patera said Tuesda ...
by: Ken Dye — Fansided: Cat Crave 15 days ago
... ntered the NFL in 1961 and saw how many people in the L.A. phone book named “David Jones,” and began to call himself “Deacon” in order to stand out. It wasn’t long, ...
by: RICHARD GOLDSTEIN — NY Times: The Fifth Down 15 days ago
... ‘Jeezz-us, Deacon, it ain’t the Super Bowl.’ But that’s how much he cared.” David Jones was born on Dec. 9, 1938, in Eatonville, Fla., where an incident he witnesse ...
by: Keith Thursby, Special to the Los Angeles Times — Baltimore Sun: The Baltimore Sun 15 days ago
... teammate: "There has never been a better football player than Deacon Jones." David Jones was born Dec. 9, 1938, in Eatonville, Fla., where his parents ran a barbecue ...
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