Top 10 college football nicknames of all time

[Tom McKrackin]

Joe Greene, DL, North Texas: Mean Joe Greene

Charles Edward Greene. Nowhere on Greene’s birth certificate does it say “Joe.” However, his aunt began calling him Joe as a child due to his resemblance to legendary heavyweight champion boxer Joe Louis, and it stuck. But where does the “Mean” come into play?

Greene played football for North Texas, who were the Eagles back then. Chants began in the stands, “Come on green, get mean … Here we go, mean green.” That quickly became the “Mean Greene” moniker for the ferocious DT’s play on the field. UNT is now the Mean Green, but it’s an adoption of the chant, not of Greene’s nickname: “I’m proud of the tie and my link to North Texas, but I was too busy playing when the chanting started.”

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