'Crazy' Phil Leonetti didn't like his nickname and asked his uncle Nicky Scarfo if he could do something about the radio dj how gave it to him.
Scarfo said: ''Are you, no pun intended, crazy? Guys would kill for such a nickname..''
So Phil left it the way it was and was Crazy Phil ever since.
He told this story on several mob documentaries..
No one called Nicky sr. (little Nicky) to his face . No one called Phil (Crazy Phil) but Lawrence was called Yogi" and we also introduced him to guys close to us as Yogi.
But all the guys that were made and all the guys that hung with made guys did not use nicknames like we did with guys on the street that we grew up with ,I guess thats why Yogi did not mind he had that name when he was young...
Everyone called the Blade the Blade or Nick that is one exception, his son was called penknife" and people would call him that and he would take it but only after his dad was away did this happen.
Then he was made" and he moved to Philly so I dont know what went down there.
