A College Football Player Is Named 'ESPN'

Yes, There Really Is a College Football Player Named ESPN

Pardon the interruption, but there’s a football player for Bowling Green State University and his name is ESPN. Well, Gideon ESPN Lampron. Gideon, 21, got his middle name — written in all caps, exactly like the network — when his dad, Marty Lampron, snuck it onto his son’s birth certificate while his wife Jennifer was recovering from giving birth. Marty, a massive sports fan, originally wanted to name his son after his favorite basketball player…

A College Football Player Is Named 'ESPN'

College Football’s 10 Most Intimidating Stadiums (1:16) A 2025 college football player has the name "ESPN" - no, seriously, that's his name.Gideon ESPN Lampron is the full, legal name of a college football player heading into the 2025 season. The linebacker plays collegiately for Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His father named him after ESPN despite his mother's wishes against it.The father of the college football player named after ESP…

Briggs: New BGSU linebacker's dad secretly named him ESPN. Mom was ticked, but it turned out perfect

BOWLING GREEN — Imagine having ESPN as your middle name — and then growing up to be, say, a minority whip or the drummer in a metal band called Death ...

College football linebacker goes viral for having ‘ESPN’ as his middle name

ESPN has arrived at Bowling Green. That’s BGSU linebacker Gideon ESPN Lampron. Lampron is getting some viral attention for having ESPN as his middle name. David Briggs of The Toledo Blade spoke to Lampron and his parents about the unique middle name and the attention that comes with it. Marty Lampron, Gideon’s father, is described by his wife, Jennifer Lampron, as a “sports lunatic.” The South Boston native unsuccessfully suggested “Larry Bird” …

College football linebacker goes viral for having 'ESPN' as his middle name

ESPN has arrived at Bowling Green. That’s BGSU linebacker Gideon ESPN Lampron. Lampron is getting some viral attention for having ESPN as his middle name. David Briggs of The Toledo Blade spoke to Lampron and his parents about the unique middle name and the attention that comes with it. Marty Lampron, Gideon’s father, is described by his wife, Jennifer Lampron, as a “sports lunatic.” The South Boston native unsuccessfully suggested “Larry Bird” …

Bowling Green LB Gideon Lampron's middle name is ESPN

In Seinfeld‘s Season 4 episode, “The Pilot,” Jerry joked that some people are locked into their future jobs at birth by the names their given. The example he cited was that a baby named Jeeves can’t grow up to be anything but a butler. Bowling Green linebacker Gideon Lampron has a similar situation, albeit with his middle name — ESPN. Lampron, a junior transfer to Bowling Green from Dayton, was given the middle name by his father, a sports enthu…