B. Roy is the ‘Yellow Mamba’

From Jason Quick of The Oregonian:

“Hey Quick. I’ve got a new name for him,” Outlaw said.

“What’s that?” I said.

“Yellow Mamba.”

“Yellow Mamba?”

Roy interjects.

“Yellow Mamba. Like Kobe is the Black Mamba? I’m the Yellow Mamba.”

Why yellow I ask.

“My skin,” Roy says.

“Or we can go red,” Outlaw says. “You like yellow or red?”

“Well, I don’t understand red.” I say. “I get the yellow, but not red.”
“That’s what I said. I can explain the yellow when we talk about it,” Roy said.

Then he looked over to Outlaw.

“Yellow. Yellow.”

“OK. Yellow Mamba then,” Outlaw said definitively.

“Yellow mamba,” Roy said.

“We need to get that out there,” Outlaw tells me.

I ask Roy if he likes the nickname.

“I like it, it’s pretty good. Because the Black Mamba is the most deadly snake in the world. I’m not the most deadly, but …”