Because increibly he is the only fox in the Griffon Lightnings, depite foxes are very common in the city
Lidda preffers to call him colofull butt fox because his likes about swimsuits
And Sennet calls him friendly "Pointy nosed dork"
Erik Trevelyan is very appreciated by his hard work and his strategy to compensate his lack of strenght and small height.
Plus the fans of the team knows that he always will have a moment to smile in a photo or sign an autograph, depite he is not very demostrative of his emotions.
Of course, they don´t know about his hard life