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[GMScud]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Under Spurrier, meetings where chaotic and no one was held accountable. Ladell Betts on multiple occassions would doze off and call people on his cell phone. Rod Gardner would do the same. Heck he called me once during a meeting. Players were regularly late to meetings. No one was ever held accountable. Under Gibbs (granted I wasn't actually there for Gibbs, I left right before) there was accountability and an understanding of the consequences of not being responsible. Not in terms of fines but in terms of the respect of your colleagues and the effects on the field.

Gardner called you? Are you joking? Did you tell him to hang up the phone and pay attention?

Were you covering the Redskins when you were here or something?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Gardner called you? Are you joking? Did you tell him to hang up the phone and pay attention?

Were you covering the Redskins when you were here or something?

Redskins, Caps, Wizards, United, bid to bring baseball to DC, Eagles, Hoyas, Terps, Colonials, Patriots (GMU), and assorted other local teams. Sometimes when you'd turn on the news and see such and such player answering a question or a special piece on "Barbecuing with Dana Stubblefield" but you never saw the reporter who was asking the question, I was often the "reporter" on the other side of the camera asking the question. But you know, union rules, couldn't get on camera.

But I digress.

Yeah he called me. I mean we weren't like buddies or anything. He was friends with a couple of co-workers that I was also friends with and he would call to find out where the party was that night, or to let us know. So yeah he called me at work one day

Smootsmack: Hello
Rod Gardner: Yo SmootSmack (not my real name)! What's up? It's Rod Gardner. Dre gave me your number
SS: Hey, how's it going?
Rod: Cool, cool. Yo I'm hittin' up Club Scud (not a real place) Friday with Chris (Samuels) and Tre (Johnson). We've got about 20 friends coming with us. Let your boy know (had a friend who ran parties at clubs down in DC). You gonna be there?
SS: Maybe. (of course, 95% of the time I'd see him downtown he compeletly ignored me). I'm working late tonight, trying to get out of here as soon as possible though.
Rod: I got you. I'm just waiting for this team meeting to end
SS: You're in a meeting? Damn, let me let you go then
Rod: Nah, you know how coach is, he's cool. It's alright. I know what I gotta do (thing is, he usually did, but what a terrible example). Plus, I can hear him out my other ear anyway
SS: Yeah, I gotta run Rod. I'll talk to you later

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Redskins, Caps, Wizards, United, bid to bring baseball to DC, Eagles, Hoyas, Terps, Colonials, Patriots (GMU), and assorted other local teams. Sometimes when you'd turn on the news and see such and such player answering a question or a special piece on "Barbecuing with Dana Stubblefield" but you never saw the reporter who was asking the question, I was often the "reporter" on the other side of the camera asking the question. But you know, union rules, couldn't get on camera.

But I digress.

Yeah he called me. I mean we weren't like buddies or anything. He was friends with a couple of co-workers that I was also friends with and he would call to find out where the party was that night, or to let us know. So yeah he called me at work one day

Smootsmack: Hello
Rod Gardner: Yo SmootSmack (not my real name)! What's up? It's Rod Gardner. Dre gave me your number
SS: Hey, how's it going?
Rod: Cool, cool. Yo I'm hittin' up Club Scud (not a real place) Friday with Chris (Samuels) and Tre (Johnson). We've got about 20 friends coming with us. Let your boy know (had a friend who ran parties at clubs down in DC). You gonna be there?
SS: Maybe. (of course, 95% of the time I'd see him downtown he compeletly ignored me). I'm working late tonight, trying to get out of here as soon as possible though.
Rod: I got you. I'm just waiting for this team meeting to end
SS: You're in a meeting? Damn, let me let you go then
Rod: Nah, you know how coach is, he's cool. It's alright. I know what I gotta do (thing is, he usually did, but what a terrible example). Plus, I can hear him out my other ear anyway
SS: Yeah, I gotta run Rod. I'll talk to you later

Ha. Funny story. Good stuff.

BTW, Club Scud is a real place. I make it rain up in there all the time.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Ha. Funny story. Good stuff.

BTW, Club Scud is a real place. I make it rain up in there all the time.

What you do alone in your room at night is really of no interest to the rest of us.

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Redskins, Caps, Wizards, United, bid to bring baseball to DC, Eagles, Hoyas, Terps, Colonials, Patriots (GMU), and assorted other local teams. Sometimes when you'd turn on the news and see such and such player answering a question or a special piece on "Barbecuing with Dana Stubblefield" but you never saw the reporter who was asking the question, I was often the "reporter" on the other side of the camera asking the question. But you know, union rules, couldn't get on camera.

But I digress.

Yeah he called me. I mean we weren't like buddies or anything. He was friends with a couple of co-workers that I was also friends with and he would call to find out where the party was that night, or to let us know. So yeah he called me at work one day

Smootsmack: Hello
Rod Gardner: Yo SmootSmack (not my real name)! What's up? It's Rod Gardner. Dre gave me your number
SS: Hey, how's it going?
Rod: Cool, cool. Yo I'm hittin' up Club Scud (not a real place) Friday with Chris (Samuels) and Tre (Johnson). We've got about 20 friends coming with us. Let your boy know (had a friend who ran parties at clubs down in DC). You gonna be there?
SS: Maybe. (of course, 95% of the time I'd see him downtown he compeletly ignored me). I'm working late tonight, trying to get out of here as soon as possible though.
Rod: I got you. I'm just waiting for this team meeting to end
SS: You're in a meeting? Damn, let me let you go then
Rod: Nah, you know how coach is, he's cool. It's alright. I know what I gotta do (thing is, he usually did, but what a terrible example). Plus, I can hear him out my other ear anyway
SS: Yeah, I gotta run Rod. I'll talk to you later

LOL, the most I have ever done is shake Rock Cartwright's hand through the chain linked fence outside of the player's parking lot at FedEX. It was more like a 3 finger tap. He really wasn't into it.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Angry

LOL, the most I have ever done is shake Rock Cartwright's hand through the chain linked fence outside of the player's parking lot at FedEX. It was more like a 3 finger tap. He really wasn't into it.

I said hello to Charles Mann one time at a Terps basketball game (back when they actually won games) when I was an undergrad at Maryland. I also met Mark Rypien (sp?) when he came to visit my school, I think I must have been in 7th or 8th grade.