Jul 17
the first couple of practices with boston, ilya keeps hearing his new teammates call out “big red.” he’s still learning english but he knows enough to figure out it’s a nickname. and by the end of the week, he is annoyed and is like, “this is dumb name. not funny at all. you call me ‘red’ because i’m russian? so lame.” and then his teammates have to be like, “no, no dude. ‘big red’ is our nickname for marly because his first name is cliff, which is short for clifford.” and ilya’s like ???
and that’s how the entire team ends up spending their friday night watching clifford the big red dog with 19-year-old ilya rozanov.
#heated rivalry#this is so dumb#popped into my head reading a fic where ilya calls cliff clifford#is that his actual name#plz no#but also hilarious#game changers series#game changers#ilya rozanov#cliff marleau#cliff marlow#ok just googled it#apparently clifford airs in russia#my bad#also the most searched question is is clifford the big red dog a kaiju#lol
