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GOO, FUDGE, RAMBO
Bacarri Rambo has a psuedonym back in DonalsonviUe -and it might be catching on with the team.
But no matter the name, Rambo will always call A.J. Green ‘the best friend I’ve ever had.’
• By NICK PARKER
Tki Rad & Buck
Last spring, safety
Bacarri Rambo took some
Mends from the University
back to his family’s home
in DonalsonviUe.
His friends quickly had a
problem, though, when
they couldn’t find “Goo."
The friends were left in the
dark for a couple awkward
minutes, trying to figure
out who Rambo’s friends
and family were calling
"Goo".
It was Rambo.
The nickname came
when Rambo or “Goo”
was just an infant, and
it’s stuck ever since in his
hometown.
“When I was an infant,
my mom used to always
give me cough drops,
because I always used to
cry. So I’d get cough drops,
and I’d suck on them and
my eyes, they’d say I’d look
like Mr. Magoo. the cartoon
character, because my eyes
would get big,” Rambo
said. “So I’d look like Mr.
Magoo, the cartoon char
acter, then it went from Mr.
Magoo, to Magoo, then
everyone started calling me
‘Goo.’”
For 18 years, he was
Goo. For the last three,
he’s been Bacarri.
“That’s Uke a
hometown nick
name. None of the
teachers at my
school caUed me
Bacarri. Matter of
fact, I’ve never ever
heard my mom or
my dad call me
Bacarri,” Rambo
said. “They proba
bly don’t even
know my first name
to be honest.
Everybody calls me
Goo back at
home.”
But when he
arrived in Athens
three years ago, he
didn’t want to be
Goo anymore
because his team
mates might think
that was a “Uttle kid’s
name,” so he just told them
his name was “Rambo.” He
liked it a lot better than his
previous last name. Ridge,
which he changed at age
seven to his dad’s last
name of Rambo.
“I don’t want nobody to
call me Goo or my previous
last name before Rambo, it
was Ridge. I don’t want
anybody to call me ‘Ridge.’
I’d just rather them call me
Bacarri or Rambo,” he
said.
Unfortunately for
Rambo, the name is gain
ing steam.
Offensive coordinator
Mike Bobo and running
backs coach Bryan
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“That’s like a home
town nickname. None
of the teachers at my
school called me
Bacarri. Matter of
fact, I’ve never ever
heard my mom or my
dad call ipe Bacarri.
They probably don’t
even know my first
name to be honest.
Everybody calls me
Goo back at home.”
Safety
McClendon both recruited
him as Goo, so the name
stuck with them. Fellow
safety Nick Williams has
always referred to Rambo
as Goo as well, since the
two have known each other
since seventh grade play
ing against each other in
basketball —and now the
name is starting to stick
among other teammates as
well.
But the name Rambo is
more fitting for a Georgia
safety, a group known for
its devastating hits over
the middle and phys
ical nature.
“It’s an intimida
tion last name,”
Rambo said.
“[Opponents] will
see it and be like
‘They got a guy
named Rambo play
ing safety,' first thing
that probably comes
to someone's mind,
‘He might be a
killa.’”
Rambo was a kill
er to Aubum’s
chances in a game
late last season when
he broke up a pass at
the goal line with a
devastating hit that
left him motionless
on the field and with
a concussion that
sidelined him for two
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And just as a player with
the name of Rambo should,
he’s gotten right back to
his physical nature in the
secondary this season,
ranking second on the
team in tackles with 62.
“I had a concussion last
year? I got knocked out
last year? I forgot about it,
man,” Rambo joked. “I
really don’t think about it.
I just go about my busi
ness. If it’s going to hap
pen, it’s going to happen. I
just put it in my mind to
play frill speed because one
thing that my dad always
taught since I started out
at football when I was five
or six, 'When you’re scared,
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▲ Safety Bacarri Rambo (18) has accumulated Ms share of nicknames throughout his lifetime.
Now, the sophomore fears a nickname from Ms past Goo may be making a comeback.
that’s when you get hurt,’
so I don’t think about it
because I don’t want to go
timid.”
Another of his father’s
life lessons came true when
Rambo moved in with A.J.
Green to start the second
semester of his freshman
year.
His father had always
told him he would meet
the best friend he’d ever
meet in his life in college,
which proved to be true
when Rambo met Green.
Ever since, the two have
become “best friends” and
then roommates, moving
in together off campus.
“I think my dad was
right about that, because I
met A.J, and he’s like a big
brother. I got an older
brother; but he’s like a big
brother in school with me,”
Rambo said. “We have so
much love for each other.
It’s like we grew up togeth
er; it’s like we used to shoot
marbles together or some
thing, our relationship is
very tight and I don’t think
nothing can come between
us.”
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ble receiver. Rambo is the
loud-mouthed, boisterous
leader of the secondary.
“I feel like we just bal
ance each other out,”
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Green said. “I’m the more
calm and collected one,
and he’s the talkative one,
and we just balance each
other out.”
“He’s like the most hum
ble person I’ve ever met to
be honest,” Rambo said.
“He challenges me and
makes me a better person
by the way he acts and car
ries himself.”
Rambo was the one
there for Green during his
four-game suspension.
Rambo knew Green wasn’t
the type of person to get in
trouble and knew what it
felt like to sit out after sit
ting out for his concussion.
So Rambo asked the team
chaplain if they could
include Green in the team’s
prayers during the weekly
devotional during Green’s
four-game suspension.
Away from the field, the
two talk about everything
and on an off day they can
probably be found doing
their other love: Shopping
for the latest shoes and
clothes.
“It might sound kinda
funny, but me and him like
to shop together. We like to
shop like females,” Rambo
said. “We’ll go Atlanta, to
Lenox Mall, and we’ll shop
until it closes. It’s like we
have the same kind of taste
he knows what I like and
he knows what he likes. We
both have the taste that is
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ON THE FIELD
2009: Played in 11 games, 25
tackles, two interceptions, five pass
break-ups
2010: Started all nine game, 62
tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, one
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that Green is the superior
cook, calling Green’s fried
chicken one of his favorite
meals.
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anybody this, but he can
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cook some southern food,
man,” Rambo said. “His
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I eat his chicken and just
go to sleep. That’s all I
want to do is just relax and
go to sleep.”
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“Yeah ... my chicken ...
yeah, it’s pretty good,”
Green conceded.
Just like Dad’s advice.
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