American Civil War reenactor and as a child, Tony would carry the "poop bucket" during reenactments, resulting in Tony's dislike of anything relating to the Civil War. DiNozzo Sr. skirts very close to the line between a businessman and a con man, and at one point Tony was left in a hotel room for two days when his father left for a supposed business meeting. In the episode "Flesh and Blood", the two display similar personality traits—they both flirt with women and quote movies. It is stated in this episode that his father is pretending to be rich when he is actually bankrupt. It is also revealed that after his mother's death, Tony spent much of his childhood in a number of boarding schools and summer camps, so he and his father spent very little time together and rarely kept in touch. Consequently, father and son had a frosty relationship. It has also been suggested that his father was emotionally neglectful. Aside from the odd comment or casual reference, Tony rarely mentioned his parents until season 7, when Anthony DiNozzo Senior makes his first appearance. In "Sins of the Father", he admits to Gibbs that, although his dad still "makes [him] crazy", he still loves him but has been unable to tell his dad so. In "Broken Arrow", DiNozzo Sr. helps Gibbs with a case by using his contacts and going undercover with Ziva at a party in the home of a well-known arms dealer. Tony and his father also reconcile their differences. Other family members mentioned in NCIS episodes include a button-collecting grandfather who bequeathed Tony one thousand shares in a dot-com, and a number of uncles. His uncle Vincenzo is a butcher on Long Island. A second uncle was a successful businessman, but was found at a golf course looking for mole people. A third uncle named Clive Paddington, wealthy and deceased, left his entire estate to his paternal nephew Crispian Paddington. Fictional education and work history After being expelled from six boarding schools in four years, Tony graduated from the Remington Military Academy in Tiverton, Rhode Island. He later completed a Bachelor of Arts in physical education at Ohio State University, where he was on the varsity basketball team and competed in the Final Four. DiNozzo discusses a football game in the episode "SWAK", in which his doctor broke his leg. In the same discussion, Tony claims