043 Scott

Scott is the football player.

When the figure came out in 2001, as part of Crew 7, his packaging called him Biff.

When the poster was released in 2002, his name was changed to Scott. This poster show the exact G1 image, now with a new name. Both trading card series and the Clash Cubes also call him Scott.  I have no idea why the name was changed.

While there are a few historic football players that have been nicknamed Biff, the character that we most associate with the name is Biff Tannen from the Back to the Future trilogy. There could even be a link to Back to the Future II where 2015 Biff goes back in time and gives the 1985 Biff a sports almanac so he could use the outcomes of games to make bets and get rich.  Surely some of those bets were on football games.

Still, I don't know why they decided to change the name, but I like to think that the name Scott was chosen as the replacement because Doc Brown in always saying "great Scott!" in the Back to the Future movies. 

Anyway, moving on. The G1 figure "holds" a football on his left side.  When he returned in G3, he didn't even get a football at all.  It's kind of weird that he has no football.  They also gave him a gripping right hand for some reason.  This is the kind of hand that would hold an accessory like a spear or a net or a baseball bat.  But, he was given no accessory at all -- not even a freaking football. 

Scott has a zood named T. Dee.  He is a pig. 

The name is a play on "TD" or "Touchdown."  The fact that he is a pig is a play on pigskin. This is a slang term for the football itself that came about because early footballs were once made of an inflated pig's bladder stuffed inside a pig's hide.  Today professional footballs are made from cowhide, and recreational balls are usually just plastic.

T. Dee even has stitching on his back giving him that football look.  The original little zood came out in 2005.  When Spin Master bought Tech Deck, they re-released  Scott and T. Dee as one of four figures in their Re-Leashed line.  This time T. Dee is a large pig who pulls Scott along on his skateboard. More info on all the zoods can be found here.