name dropping?

 i need to touch up on the subject of "name dropping". if you mention anyone who is popular in bmx in any way it always gets taken as name dropping. if you say " DREW BEZANSON and ANTHONY NAPOLITAN have been at the trails a bunch lately wearing matching redbull helmets" people joke that your name dropping.

if your friends with them and say something along the lines of "my friend JOE finally jumped speedball the other day but not without taking out BRIAN first run" people might assume that your trying to be cool and just use their first name instead of joe rich and brian hunt, and again joke that your "name dropping" but trying to act nonchalant about it

 if i go out to the trails two days ago and Tony Cardona,Ruben Alcantara,Joe Rich,Matt Anal,Anthony Napolitan,Drew Bezanson,Clint Reynolds,Brian Hunt,Chase Hawk,Sebastian Keep,Robbie Morales,Sean Sexton,Jim Cielinski,and everyone else i cant think of are out there. im going to eventually have to say some of their names in conversation.

rolled in to T-1 this afternoon only to find "Morgan Wade" there riding