Amelia Earhart

I asked my wife to give me a name and she gave me Amelia Earhart even thought she claims that she meant to say Flannery O’Connor.  Whatevs.

Ken Edwards

Guinness world record holder.  Big Ken ate 36 cockroaches in one minute.

Björn Borg

Swedish 1970s tennis great.  Borg rocked it with the special headbands.

Meadowlark Lemon

The Clown Prince of Basketball and member of the Harlem Globetrotters.  He could make a hook shot from half court.  He also guest starred on an episode of Diff’rent Strokes.

Jason Acuña

Acuña is the Wee-Man of Jackass fame.  Acuña, who has dwarfism, is a talented professional skateboarder as well as one hell of an Oompa-Loompa doppelganger. 

Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi

Takeru Kobayashi is the best competitive eater on God’s green earth.  Kobayashi owns the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which he has dominated for the past six years.  In 2006 he sucked back 53 3/4 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes flat by employing the Solomon technique, where he breaks the dog in two and dominates the dog.   

Mike McGill

A founding member of the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade and inventor of the McTwist.  I recall his deck had cool graphics but the oddest shape of the Bones Brigade; the prevailing theory was that its shape accomodated McGill’s exclusively vert skateboard career.  But as anyone who’s seen Animal Chin knows, McGill skated his share of ditches too. 
(Anybody else remember Boneite?)

David Von Erich

David Von Erich was one of the famous clan Von Erich, the professional wrestlers.  David, like his father Fritz (and brothers Kerry, Kevin, et al.), packed a mean Iron Claw.  Rumor has it David OD’d in a Japanese hotel room and his heart exploded.  That’s what we were told as kids anyway.

A.C. Green

A.C. Green was the freshest, most dipped jheri curled member of the famed Lakers Showtime offense, led by Magic.  Green and Byron Scott were always on point.  Green’s hair was so precisely round and moisturized it looked like something Archimedes designed.