This Is The Game Of The Name

"Are you Arthur Lee Trotter?"

"I'll take the Fifth Amendment."

"What's the Fifth Amendment?" he was asked after invoking it more times than a Watergate burglar.

"I don't want to talk about it."

"That's pretty close, Marv," said Vaughn.

Trotter now sits in Cell 6-B in his bright-orange prison issues and explains how everybody got it wrong. He says Arthur Lee Trotter is just an "a.k.e. [sic] alias. I haven't used that since I was a peewee." He says he sometimes goes by Bill Russell because "My foster father's name was William T. Russell; Bill Russell and I grew up in Oakland together, and young kids in the neighborhood used to call me Billy The Kid." Besides, he insists, his real name is Marv Xavier Fleming. The former Packer's middle name is Lawrence.

As for posing as Mackey, he just giggles. "I don't know," he says. "That's a new one on me."

Actually, he says, he played tight end for five years in the Canadian Football League.

Which team?

"Heh, heh," he says, flashing a broad and fishy grin. "Ain't no way you can get me to tell you that!"