Sour Patch Chuck. Nobody is quite sure how the nickname came to be. It might’ve been given to him by friends. It might’ve been given to him by faculty members. Or, he might’ve just given the nickname to himself. All we know for sure is that Bryant basketball’s Charles Pride earned the moniker during his junior year of high school.
Playing at Liverpool High School just outside of Syracuse, Pride would consume an alarming amount of Sour Patch Kids candy often during inconvenient and unconventional times.
“At Liverpool they would buy the pound bags of Sour Patch and put them on the scorer’s table,” Says Pride, whose Bryant Bulldogs take on Syracuse tonight.