Washington Redskins draft pick Bacarri Rambo has an exceptionally intimidating name. But Rambo’s name didn’t always strike fear into the hearts of opponents.

Rambo used to be Fudge.

Bacarri’s mother’s maiden name is Fudge, and so Rambo was born Bacarri Fudge. His parents legally changed Barcarri’s last name to his father’s, Rambo, in grade school.

“When people see the name ‘Rambo’ on the back of my jersey, they expect me to be a hard-nosed killer with a scarf around my head and paint under my eyes,” Rambo said in an interview with the Associated Press. “If I was playing in the secondary and named Fudge, everybody would say I was soft. I went from being soft to being hard.”



This journey of Rambo’s name takes an even stranger turn when you read this story in The Red & Black, a University of Georgia website, which reveals Rambo’s nickname for the first 18 years of his life …

“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 character, then it went from Mr. Magoo, to Magoo, then everyone started calling me ‘Goo.’”

There was a time when Bacarri Rambo was known as ‘Goo’ Fudge.

Goo Fudge sounds like the name of a boy one golden ticket short of this story …

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Thanks to Dan Steinberg & Sarah Kogod for sharing the Fudge with us