Sports stars you've met or hung out with.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

For no good reason, I met Dave Winfield about 10 years ago.

[Crimson Platypus 0]

Met Magic Johnson a while back, he's every bit as good a person as reputed to be.

 

Tom Izzo's wife Lupe used to work for my dad, have talked to them a number of times. Wonderful people.

 

Anyone remember Mike Peplowski (spelling destroyed)? I used to deliver Piazza to him a couple years ago. Easily the biggest man I have ever seen. Biggest tipper too.

[the max 0]

Mike Greenwell came into the store when I worked at Finish Line. Then again, calling him a "star" is REALLY stretching it.

 

I felt like strangling him.

[TSA09 0]

Dave Stewart, former Oakland As pitcher, is a family friend so when he's in town we'll see him.

 

Arnold Palmer is constantly around my parent's house playing golf, so watch him play.

 

Doug Drebeck used to always come into the sporting goods store I worked at and his kids play baseball with the so-called brothers.

 

Jesse Barfield, I'll take my so-called brothers to hitting practice at times.

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

I've met a good deal of stars, but I have 3 fairly good stories involving athletes (non rasslers too).

 

 

I know PK Sam (rookie who plays for the Patriots), and he let me wear his Gator Bowl jersey for a little bit, which was fun.

 

The two best ones--involved Braves (my favorite baseball team).

 

I got to meet Hank Aaron and shake his hand and get photos and stuff...

 

However, the coolest celebrity meeting I've had and probably will ever have since it was so special was meeting Greg Maddux. I was probably 9 or 10 and Damon Berryhill and Greg Maddux were doing a singing, so I went to it. I wait in line forever, and get near the front--which is where the fun begins.

 

The line was one of those that standard ones the curls around so that when you get close it closes into a square where the line wraps around five or six times. I'm close to Berryhill (he signed first) and Maddux--about 2 more little turns to go when I have to tie my shoe. My Mom informs me that people are waiting and that I have to hurry, etc. etc. So I get up to Berryhill--tell him how cool it was he hit a game winning homerun as he singed the picture of him I chose, but he didn't say anything back--just signed and moved on. Hey, I was only a little kid, but I thought Berryhill was a good guy and he just kinda waved us on. Oh well.

 

Then, I get to Maddux. The guy looks up at me and holds his hand out for me to shake and goes "Hey Mike, how you doing buddy?" Apparently he heard my Mom say my name and realized I was the kid tying my shoe a few minutes ago. Thinking of it today still sends chills down my spine. He didn't need to do that--but for a kid who lived, breathed, and died Braves... damn, that made my whole Summer. The best National Leauge pitcher of the 90's called me by name and shook my hand.

[A Happy Medium 0]

Well I met NBA journeyman Cliff Levinston back when he was with the Bulls.

 

My mom used to know Hall of Fame pitcher Billy Pierce. So I saw him every now and then.

 

I never met him but my dad would see Walter Payton all the time at a local restaurant after Walter would do one of his famous training sessions. So no, I never met him.

 

If I had played my cards right back when I was in high school, I probably would've been Steve Nash's or Dirk Nowitzki's underage drinking buddy, as I had a friend who's dad was the play by play guy for the Mavs. Actually, my mom worked with and was/is friends with Mark Cuban's wife. So yeah, I could've known a majority of the Mavs if my mom had kept in touch with her friend, or if I didn't realise the kid I knew was a douchebag.

[Guest Showstoppa Icon]

i met old knicks forward Charles Oakley

 

John Starks ran over my foot with his SUV when i was 10, if that counts

 

Also i met David Cone at a pool hall once, really awesome guy.