Just curious.
2007-03-26 02:51:21 · 7 answers · asked by Chargers Chick 3 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Parcells earned the nickname "The Big Tuna" when he responded to a statement from a player with the incredulous "Who do you think I am? Charlie the Tuna?" Link below).
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From "The Tuna" himself........(interview).
[Coach Parcells discusses how he got the nickname ''Tuna'' at a 1997 press conference.]
Bill Parcells: I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots. There was an old commercial from StarKist with Charlie the StarKist tuna. So my players were trying to con me on something one time, and I said, 'You must think I'm Charlie the Tuna,' you know, a sucker, and that's kind of how it started. We started with it that year and [Charlie and the other fish] used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets. That's where it all started.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bill_parcel...
2007-03-26 02:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells (born August 22, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey), nicknamed "The Big Tuna", is a retired American football head coach, last coaching the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Parcells owns two Super Bowl rings with wins in Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV. He announced his fourth retirement from football on January 22, 2007 .
2007-03-26 12:50:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parcells earned the nickname "The Big Tuna" when he responded to a statement from a player with the incredulous "Who do you think I am? Charlie the Tuna?" [3]
2007-03-26 09:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Parcells also found time to address the burning question of how he got his nickname: "Big Tuna."
"I think it goes back to my first time with the Patriots," said Parcells, who was New England's linebackers coach in 1980.
"There was an old commercial from Starkist with Charlie the Starkist Tuna, so my players were trying to con me on something one time, and I said, 'You must think I'm Charlie the Tuna,' you know, a sucker, and that's kind of how it started.
"We started with it that year and they used to wear those little tuna helmets, you know, tuna pictures on their helmets. That's where it all started."
2007-03-26 12:04:20 · answer #4 · answered by themcdonsinaz04 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is actually called the Big Tuna, because he is a large man who smells
2007-03-26 09:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
his nickname is "the Big Tuna"
Charlie Weiss is "Little Tuna"
2007-03-26 22:49:38 · answer #6 · answered by mister w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he stinks.
2007-03-26 09:55:17 · answer #7 · answered by ropar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋