[Ads-l] Big Sky

[Jonathan Lighter]

Joe "Big Sky" Montegna would have a nice ring to it also.

JL

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anyone else remember when the San Francisco 49ers tried to give star
> quarterback Joe Montana the nickname "Big Sky"?
>
> Wikipedia:
>
> >>Montana earned the nickname "Joe Cool" for his ability to stay calm at
> key moments, and "Comeback Kid" for his history of rallying his teams from
> late-game deficits. His teammates in San Francisco called him "Bird Legs"
> [70] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-70>[71]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-71> due to his very
> thin legs and small calves. He was called "Golden Joe" because he played in
> California (the Golden State), and also appeared on a poster superimposed
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superimposition> in front of the Golden
> Gate
> Bridge <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge> with the wording
> "The Golden Great".[72]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-72> Two more names
> were provided by a *San Francisco Chronicle
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle>* nickname contest
> early in his NFL career: the winner was "Big Sky", but another contestant
> suggested that since "Joe Montana" already sounded like a nickname, Montana
> needed a real name, and christened him "David W. Gibson".[73]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Montana#cite_note-73> Montana liked the
> Gibson name so much that he had it stenciled above his locker.<<
>
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> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 9:15 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From around 1950, the state of Montana has embraced the
> > promotional nickname of "Big Sky Country."  There's even a tourist town
> > called Big Sky.
> >
> > Of diverting pedantic interest is that "Sonh-yoo-wau-na, or Big Sky," is
> > among the "Sachems and War-Chiefs of the...Six Nations" listed as signers
> > of a treaty with the United States which was entered into at
> > "Kon-on-daigua, N.Y." (modern Canandaigua), June 26, 1794.
> >
> > See _Gazette of the United States_ (Jan. 30, 1795), p. 10.
> >
> > Modern use of the phrase comes from the title of A. B. Guthrie's
> > best-selling novel, _The Big Sky_ (1947), filmed in 1952.
> >
> > JL
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