Re: Chance encounters with prominent sports figures?
 

My brother played basketball with John Smoltz's kid so I saw him from afar. Chris Chandler gave a pregame speech to my high schools football team, I shamelessly asked for his autograph after. Met Art Monk at his football camp among other players like Edwin Mulitalo. Jessie Tuggle's son went to my high school a year or two after I graduated and became a decent QB prospect eventually getting a scholarship to Boston College so I occasionally saw him at games.

When I was in Middle School my Dad found out that his former teammate (Buzz Braman the shot doctor) was a shooting coach for the Bullets so I got to meet Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, George Murehsan, and Tim Legler at a local middle school where they were practicing. Only reason I was partly hoping for the Heat to win a title last year was because Juwan Howard was so nice to me when I met him as a kid.

I think I might have met Ozzie Gullien at a fan day but I'm not totally sure about that one.

Then again I'm pretty sure that a lot of these don't qualify as chance encounters.


[QUOTE=dmek25;831652]met a few. met Barkley when the sixers trained here. nicest guy in the world. met Dr J at hersheypark doing an coke promo. super nice. sat next to Hannah Storm on a plane a couple of years ago going to Fla. really quiet. mey Jay Schroeder at a local mall signing autographs. talked to him a while[/QUOTE]

Man everyone freaking runs into Barkley except me. Even my friends got to shake hands with him at a nightclub in downtown Atlanta. And they all say the same thing, that he's the nicest guy in the world.

I had lunch with Matt Millen and Herm Edwards yesterday...only one of us won a championship as a head coach. (4th/5th grade youth hockey!)

But, of course, that's not a chance encounter. That's just work.

But I am interested in SFRedskins story about running into Joe Montana today

Re: Chance encounters with prominent sports figures?
 

[quote=SmootSmack;849689]I had lunch with Matt Millen and Herm Edwards yesterday...only one of us won a championship as a head coach. [B](4th/5th grade youth hockey!)[/B]

But, of course, that's not a chance encounter. That's just work.

But I am interested in SFRedskins story about running into Joe Montana today[/quote]

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Re: Chance encounters with prominent sports figures?
 

[quote=SolidSnake84;849675]Did you get a good chance to see what kind of shape he was in? I'm asking because a guy I work with says his next door neighbor is a realtor that is trying to sell one of Clinton Portis' properties in Ashburn, it was a small apartment or condo of some kind for when he was not staying in his mansion. I asked him if he ever saw CP at the property when he was there, and he said "oh yeah" and I asked him what he looked like in real life. "Oh, you'd never know he was a football player if you didn't watch the NFL"

I was told he really put the weight back on since his last tryout in the NFL, which was almost a month ago. Its kind of sad because the only guy i knew who could baloon up that fast was jamarcus russell.

Portis, who was 220-230 last season, allegedly balooned as high as in the 280's this off-season, before settling down to around 250 when he worked out with the titans last month....still sad[/quote]

Yeah he looked softer.. have seen him in person before.. darker too so I'm assuming he's been mostly in Miami