Team member Nick Names

[DUCKIE]

I was given the nickname Duckie by our Pit Lord in 2002 because [as team co-captain/pit-crew member/pit & rca ambasador] I pretty much lived in the pit; and always had or knew exactly where the duck/duct tape was at all times. It was used quite a bit that year, but it's only grown since. My youth group started using it (and gave me the left over rubber ducks from a carnival we held), and then it ended up becoming my summer camp name when I started working at camps the next summer. I now own +300 rubber ducks [including the neat light-up one Koko Ed gave me in Atlanta! -thx Ed!-]as well as almost every duckie-themed item ever made... including a toilet seat cover and rug to paperclips, mardi gras beads, and loads of keychains.

I never really though much about how many people (excluding summer campers) only know me by Duckie; until I learned that some of the crew were trying to claim me ahead of time to scorekeep on their fields at Championships... but they didn't know my real name.

I'll have to include it into my VIMS account next year.
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Team Nicknames:
-"Action Joe" Perrotto: was always moving... so much so that it was rare to get a non-blurry picture of him before digital cameras became commonplace. Now it's only mostly-rare.
-Battery Boy/Girl: have one every year
-Father & Son Carlos... known as Carlo Sr./Jr. or Carlo/Carlo Lite.

We've had loads more through the years, I do not know all/the true stories behind them all though. Including... Scrappy, Mooch, Vicious, Big-Foot, Papa John, Hacksaw, Coco, and Matt "Hazmat" Hazzard... Loads of jokes were had at his expense when traveling to events... especially through tunnels.