Best athlete sighting in public.
Pretty straight forward, give us a story of an athlete you saw in public.
Mine?
I saw Rick Ankiel in a hotel one time.
Nothing too special, we were walking around trying to find our way out when I looked up and there was slick Rick with his hot ass girlfriend. He looked at me. I pointed to him and said "You're Rick Ankiel."
He then took his girlfriend by the hand and quickly left the building.
I have some other ones, I'm sure you do as well.
Storm begin.
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John Starks shoved me out of a hallway when I was about 10 years old. I'm sure it was accidental, but it's not like he couldn't see me as we were roughly the same height. Guess a fish gotta swim.
ReplyDeleteIcehouse, tell me you don't love the Wire/Omar reference.
That's some nice wire elitism right there.
ReplyDeleteJay Novacek Football Camp, 1996, introduced me to the aforementioned Mr. Novacek, Troy Aikman (who let me tackle him for a photo op), Emmitt Smith (autograph: denied), Mike "I like to antagonize kids" Irvin, and Neon Deion Sanders.
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Met two girls I am friends with at a bar one night. I had been at a different bar with some friends and so had they. We pulled up at our chosen meeting spot at the same time and I was surprised to see the extremely intoxicated Shane Battier Emerge from their backseat.
ReplyDeleteI saw Manu Ginobili in the San Juan (PR) airport. I ran after his ass, tracking him down after about 5 minutes, because I wanted to shake his hand. I did. This was five days after their '03 championship.
ReplyDeleteI saw Mia Hamm and Maudie's Tex-Mex in Austin. She proceeded to eat more than me.
ReplyDeleteChris Mihm in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteHakeem Olajuwan, Charles Barkley, Cuttino Mobley and Steve Francis have all watched my high school team practice football.
ReplyDeleteDoes this make sense? No. Does it have to? No, because Chuck and the Franchise are involved.
There was a glorious period of time when the Cowboys held their training camp in Austin. Of the myriad of players that I got to see up close and in-person, my favorite would have to be Deion Sanders.
ReplyDeleteBecause of a back injury, Prime Time needed to be golf-cart bound. Of course, this golf cart was in fact a $50,000 gold-plated Mercedes-Benz golf cart. It's what Jesus would've driven.
I saw Eddie Guerrero (RIP) in the cincy airport one time. I said "hey Eddie" he said "hey." That is all.
ReplyDeleteI met Eli Manning at a charity even knwn as "The March of Dimes .Marchofdimes.com. He is ther celebrity spokes person, I was working at the event which was, to my surprise, a 5 mile walk in manhatten. I got my picture taken with the guy and a nohomo style druel fest and then we walked for 5 miles, side by side for 5 miles. It was nice. Plud i think his wife wass checking me out the whole time. I'd do it...for sure
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ReplyDeleteAlso met Jonny Moseley in steamboat Spring Co. I was working on the Mtn with IceHouse and the season was winding down. They day I ran into Mr. Moseley was the evening of the "pond skim" where skiers and riders alike would attempt to ski across a, i believe, 40ft pond of water at the bottom of the slopes. Jonny was announcing which is why he was there.
ReplyDeleteAnyway at the bar of a hotel across the street from the employee housing, there was a few of us sitting around the table shooting the shit and drinking some beers when my friend Jay says: "Yeah, Jonny Moseley was cool until he made that sell out video game, now he's kind of a douche". and who put his hand on Jays shoulder not 3 seconds later? you guessed it, the one and only Jonny Moseley....boy we're we red. he was cool, not sure he heard...
Deion Sanders - Cowboys Training Camp at St. Ed's in Austin. Got to ride with Prime Time in his Benz golfcart to the training room. Saw Aikman in the training room and asked him for an autograph. He was about to give an interview and said no.
ReplyDeletePretty much the entire UT championship team was at the Fiji Island party the year before.
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Jerry Jonestown Massacre and I waited in line for five hours on a hot summer's day one time for two reasons. The first? Get tickets to WWF. The second? Meet Shawn Michaels. We did both.
ReplyDeleteOne year at Spurs basketball camp, Shaq showed up in a Bentley. He had the backseat removed, and the bucket seats moved to where the backseat was. This is how Shaq drove.
ReplyDeleteIt was this day, in 1997, when I realized I will never be as cool as Shaq.
At a Monday Night Raw a few years back I actually caught a shirt Lillian Garcia had shot out of an air cannon that said HBK (Fuck yeah I still have that shit) and I drank with Mick Foley in a Bar across the street. He would not let me break a chair over his back. ~Madison Square Garden.
ReplyDeleteNate Newton called me 'homeboy' once.
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Shawn Kemp in Colorado at the end of his career. He was drinking, heavily, in the hotel bar.
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I asked terry bradshaw to switch seats with me on a plane once...
ReplyDeleteI saw Vince Young grilling with the UT football team at Mac Brown's house on lake austin a while back
ReplyDeleteI met the real Rudy.
ReplyDeleteThis was a sad day, as the real Rudy is more more brain-dead than Sean Astin would let on in the film.
Ricky Williams + Earl Campbell + Church.
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Jonathan Bender jumped over my head and dunked on me one time while playing pickup. Oh yeah, Mo Pete was in the game as well.
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