Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky

On the very first day of training camp, from a sideline at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, I saw a white board held up near a huddle and a word jumped out at me:

"Ghandi".

Gandhi?

It just didn't seem like a football word or a piece of a play call.

Later, I got this vague explanation from Dallas Clark:

"Usually, I know the origin or the background of what the code word means for the play. But for 'Gandhi', I've forgotten how that one came about. Six years in this offense, we have everything. Some you question or some are really good because they make sense, maybe they give the direction of left or right."

So what does "Ghandi" mean?

"I can't tell you that," he said. "All we have to hear is 'Gandhi' and we know what we are doing, so I don't know the extent we can talk about the words. Because that's how we get to that play, is by that word. So if someone knows what that word means, then they can pick up on some stuff."

With "Ghandi" in my pocket, I set off to find the oddest word in the AFC South playbooks. I had mixed results.

Indianapolis Colts

Reggie Wayne voted for "Zulu."

"What does it mean? It's a good question," he said. "Because we never run it. It's a motion for one of the receivers. We can keep going. We've got Gandhi. We go from car names to city names, to O-linemen's wives names, all of them. Here and there you'll hear a 'Sally,' you'll hear a 'Jennifer.' That's kind of Peyton [Manning's] doing. In practice you'll hear o-linemen snickering while they are in their stances. We can go anywhere from Zulu to wives."

Tony Dungy laughed about "Gandhi".

"You're just always looking for something that clicks in and will be a connection somewhere," he said. "They can be strange ones. I remember when I got to Pittsburgh we had a coverage that was called Three-Detroit. Nobody really knew why it was called that way. We did a little research and John Rowser was a defensive back that's from Detroit, that's how they come. Well 15 years later, no one knows who John Rowser is."

Jacksonville Jaquars

"We used to have one called 'Brown Shoe'," Maurice Jones-Drew told me. "They figure you can call anything anything. It went away. It worked though. It was like a college option and we shifted into a different formation called Brown Shoe."

Not bad. Until I took it to David Garrard.

"Brown Shoe?" he said. "I don't remember Brown Shoe. That's pretty weird. We used to have a lot of cities that were part of our screen packages and one of them was Fargo. Fargo was to the right. Nobody really knew where Fargo was, but the coaches said, 'it's definitely a city, just trust us.' That was a pretty unique one."

Tennessee

Middle linebacker Ryan Fowler furrowed his brow as he scrolled through the playbook in his head, then said there wasn't much weird in there.

"Comanche," he said. "Or Navajo."

What are they?

"I can't tell you, I am sure I would get in trouble for it," he said. "If that was in print, it could be used against us."

Said tight end Bo Scaife: "All our stuff you can understand."

Fullback Ahmard Hall likes "Double Dig Dash Boy" because it's "just a bunch of words jumbled."

"Last year we had Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Austin routes," Hall said. "Guys would rag on us that [former offensive coordinator] Norm Chow was from USC and he had all these Texas and Austin routes. But Vince loved that Austin route. Run to the numbers. It worked every time vs. cover-two with Scaife."

Houston Texans

Matt Schaub called Sage Rosenfels over when I asked about weird playbook terminology, saying he needed to confer. The two quarterbacks considered the question together.

I mentioned Ghandi and Brown Shoe.

"I know the 'Old Brown Shoe,'" Rosenfels said. "I don't know that play. But sometimes there is a play where you don't know what to call it and it doesn't really matter what you call it, so you can just call it 'Old Brown Shoe.' As long as everyone knows 'Old Brown Shoe' means this."

Chimed in Schaub: "You can call things 'Bananas' or 'Apples.'"

Back to Rosenfels: "I think we have fairly politically correct coaches so we don't have anything crazy or controversial that I can think of."

What's the weirdest Rosenfels has ever come across?

"The 'Oh S---' screen," he said. "Where a player falls down and yells it, and the defense thinks he's tripped and out of the play and then you throw him the ball. That was in Washington my rookie year."

Schaub: "Another weird term we used in the past -- 'Hooker.' That's not really a great term to use but we had a play called Hooker. I'm not at liberty to say what it was, it was just one of those 'what do we call this?' And that's what came about. And it's disappeared for now."