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You'd Change Your Name, Too

Harried college football player corrected a most unfortunate moniker

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You'd Change Your Name, Too

DECEMBER 5--We were reading Deadspin this morning when we first learned of the existence of Lucius Seymour, a football player at Eastern Illinois University. Seymour, a 22-year-old Floridian, is of note because of his unfortunate former name, which was wiped away last year via a legal petition filed in Palm Beach County's Circuit Court. A copy of Seymour's name change application, which was approved last July, can be found below. In an e-mail yesterday to Deadspin, Seymour takes issue with a prior post that made light of his former handle, Lucius Pusey. 'When i make it to the league i willshoot a middle finger at yall and say fuck all my haters,' Seymour wrote. 'I am the realest.' (4 pages)