All it takes is one and you're stuck with a nickname for life. Ask basically any military member about their dumb nickname. Half will be "yeah I shit myself from food poisoning once in boot camp and they called me Browntown the rest of my career."
My best bud mispronounced Titus as Tittus in Sunday school when he was a kid. Over 2 decades later my kid and everyone in my life still call him Tittus. I don't think my kid actually knows his real name.
The one season he was on the hotseat he went for it on 4th and short (with Prime-ish Cam Newton mind you) an at the time unthinkable like 5 times in unusual situations and the nickname stuck for the rest of his career, despite him never really doing it again after that season (I want to say 2013)
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u/JakeSteeleIII Paper Bag • South Carolina Gamecocks 6d ago
It’s like when people called Ron Rivera “Riverboat Ron” because he liked to gamble on 4th and he like never did.