Never Going To Work: Travis Hunter Made The Mistake Of Giving Himself A Nickname, Somehow Thinks People Will Actually Call Him 'The Unicorn'

Travis Hunter is awesome. I think anyone automatically declaring him a bust is stupid and a lot of the talk leading into the draft with him was pretty overblown. You don't luck into a Heisman and being a freak athlete. But, this is where he fucked up. The number 1 rule in life (arguably) is you don't give yourself a nickname. 

Nicknames need to happen naturally. You don't call yourself Playoff P and never win shit, you then only get made fun of. The only time you can try to give yourself a nickname is if you're a blogger and trying to hide your legal name while working an office job. No one will ever figure out the clues there. Plus, The Unicorn just sucks. We've had a bunch of Unicorns before, we need to retire that as a nickname whether you want to give it to yourself or not. I miss the days of awesome sports nicknames

Think about just the old NFL ones, not even including Chris Berman's gift of names. The Fridge, The Bus, White Shoes, Sweetness, Primetime, Honey Badger, Muscle Hamster, The Minister of Defense. Those are just ones that stick out right off the bat. You needed to earn a nickname from someone else and it needs to be unique. If Trevor Lawrence came out and said he was calling Travis Hunter 'Unicorn' I'd let it slide a bit. 

I don't even hate the mindset that he can play both sides of the ball or he wouldn't have tried. That's all fair. I don't think it's insane to think he'll be just fine doing this. But as for nicknames? Yeah, not a soul is going to call him this. Hit the drawing board and let Chris Berman get to work.