Talk:Oil Can Boyd

Why "Oil Can"?
Where'd he get the name "Oil Can"? I came to this article to look for that. I got to blieve it'd be a worthy addition. TJRC (talk) 17:48, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to figure out
how to say, "Boyd had one of the more colorful personalities of his generation" without it sounding like an opinion. Actually I rather like the phrase, but a generation is a long time and his is no doubt filled with a variety of other colorful personalities''". Any ideas?  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 18:21, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

The source for his nickname is false
In an interview with Saul Wisnia of bleacherreport.com Boyd states: "Everybody says it's because I drank a lot of beer and they called beer “oil” down in Mississippi, but that's not true. It was rot-gut whiskey. Everybody in Meridian, where I grew up, drank it. You got it from a lady up the street named Big Mama, who was the neighborhood moonshiner. I used to go up to her house and fetch it for my mother, sneaking it into our house under my shirt so my father wouldn't see it." “When I was seven, I started drinking some myself. One day somebody caught us in a tin shed drinking Big Mama's whiskey out of oil cans, so my friend Pap started calling me “Oil Can.” I wrote it under the bill of my baseball cap, and my high school teammates started calling me that too. It stuck.” CarlosDanger87 (talk) 20:01, 19 April 2023 (UTC)