Mark Rypien

I thought I would share this. One of my best friends was on an Alaskan Cruise a week ago and ran into Mark Rypien on it. My friend was at the piano bar, and he's actually a really good harmonica player, but also a die-hard dallas fan, and he went up and played along with the piano guys for a few songs. Mark came up to him and told him how much he enjoyed his playing and offered to buy him a beer. My friend told him after they introduced themselves that he may not want to since he was a dallas fan, jokingly bought he did anyway. He saw him a few more times over the week and drank some beers with him. My friend told me what a nice guy he was and he also got his autograph and gave it to me as a surprise.

Always good to hear when these guys turn out to be genuine and nice.

I thought I would share this. One of my best friends was on an Alaskan Cruise a week ago and ran into Mark Rypien on it. My friend was at the piano bar, and he's actually a really good harmonica player, but also a die-hard dallas fan, and he went up and played along with the piano guys for a few songs. Mark came up to him and told him how much he enjoyed his playing and offered to buy him a beer. My friend told him after they introduced themselves that he may not want to since he was a dallas fan, jokingly bought he did anyway. He saw him a few more times over the week and drank some beers with him. My friend told me what a nice guy he was and he also got his autograph and gave it to me as a surprise.

Always good to hear when these guys turn out to be genuine and nice.

Is this story true?........ You're friends with a diehard COWBOYS FAN!!!!!? Just kidding. Nice story.

Is this story true?........ You're friends with a diehard COWBOYS FAN!!!!!? Just kidding. Nice story.

I know....idiot.

I am jealous.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Thats pretty cool redskin247......sorry about your so called friend, being a cowgirl fan, I am deeply saddened/lol. You should be much more careful when choosing.....DALLAS SUCKS!

I've met mark a few times as a kid and he was always a class act.

He (Mark) probably liked the fact he was a Dallas fan...we Redskins fans would have found ways to "run into him" over the cruise. haha.
I'd be like, "so...Mark...is it??? What do you do for a living? You did say your name was mark right???? Really, you played football??? Was that in Canada? I had no idea, I'm more of a tennis fan." HAHAHAHA.

Yeah I met him and Charles Mann at Children's Hospital one time back in the day when they did the weekly TV show there- Sonny Jergensen hosted. Anyway, Rypien was very nice, signed autographs, very cool from what I remember. I was only like 12 or 13 years old at the time.

I saw Mark Rypien way back when I was in middle school and he came to visit our school. He was really cool. A few days ago I downloaded a NES emulator and have been playing Tecmo Super Bowl, the 1991 season with the Redskins, with Mark Rypien at QB.