How do you pronounce Spencer's last name?

[18IsTheMan]

Listening to some different interviews and game clips, I noticed there's basically 2 variations on the pronunciation of his last name:

1. Rat-ler
or
2. Rattle-r

I'm a #1 myself.

 

[92Pony]

1

 

[winloseortie]

Hoping it is pronounced Heisman

 

[18IsTheMan]

1

I just watched an interview with Beamer where he pronounced it as #2, which caught me off guard. I guess he usually just refers to him as Spencer, so I haven't heard him say his last name much.

 

[accock]

Beamer says Raddaler

 

[Begonenow]

I just watched an interview with Beamer where he pronounced it as #2, which caught me off guard. I guess he usually just refers to him as Spencer, so I haven't heard him say his last name much.

I’ve heard him say it that way. I think it is just a brain fart like we all have sometimes. #1 it is.

 

[Slim Chickens Gamecock]

Hope it is 10-2 or two in a row

 

[Viennacock]

I wonder how SOS would pronounce it? Remember how he pronounced Pharoh Cooper. FAY-row.

 

[Prestonyte]

Listening to some different interviews and game clips, I noticed there's basically 2 variations on the pronunciation of his last name:

1. Rat-ler
or
2. Rattle-r

I'm a #1 myself.

We could just call him "Snake"!

 

[ToddFlanders]

Hoping it is pronounced Heisman

Speaking of, is there a crazier story than Joe Theisman, who changed the pronunciation of his name senior year at ND from Thees-man to make it rhyme with the trophy so he’d have a better chance to win it? And then just kept it that way. That’s dedication. Dedication to what exactly I have no idea.

 

[92Pony]

I wonder how SOS would pronounce it? Remember how he pronounced Pharoh Cooper. FAY-row.

"Ratt-luh"....but he'd probably just call him "Spence"....

 

[Captain_Obvious]

I pronounce it “2023 Heisman”

 

[ScWildthing61]

Speaking of, is there a crazier story than Joe Theisman, who changed the pronunciation of his name senior year at ND from Thees-man to make it rhyme with the trophy so he’d have a better chance to win it? And then just kept it that way. That’s dedication. Dedication to what exactly I have no idea.

And he ended up losing out on the heisman in 1970 to the same guy who beat him in superbowl XVIII; Jim Plunkett.

 

[Cocky99]

Like a rattlesnakes rattler with a little Southern accent. Rauw-til-er.

 

[rockingamecock]

1

 

[Tidalcock]

Listening to some different interviews and game clips, I noticed there's basically 2 variations on the pronunciation of his last name:

1. Rat-ler
or
2. Rattle-r

I'm a #1 myself.

There is no “e” between the “t” and the “l”, so # 1.

 

[Harvard Gamecock]

Speaking of, is there a crazier story than Joe Theisman, who changed the pronunciation of his name senior year at ND from Thees-man to make it rhyme with the trophy so he’d have a better chance to win it? And then just kept it that way. That’s dedication. Dedication to what exactly I have no idea.

Tony Dorset also changed the pronunciation of his name from college to the NFL. It was pronounced DOR-sett, and then he announced it would now become dorSETTE.