Jimmy Tarantino — Jimmy T. — was a Gloucester fisherman on Nicaragua's older Espada tribe who badly wanted a leadership role and felt overshadowed by his more famous tribemate, ex-NFL coach Jimmy Johnson.
His campaign for influence came off as pushy, and Espada eventually tired of it, voting him out seventeenth. An eager, big-hearted player whose hunger to lead became the very thing that sank him.












