hard not to freak out with athletes
richpats said:
That must of been awesome to take pictures w/ some of the Pats. I don't know if I could stand next to Bruschi or Brady without freaking out though
best thing to do is stay cool around tv personalities and entertainers. but with athletes it's hard. brady in probably real normal, what works best is to walk over maybe shake hands and talk to them, normal. they're grateful for that. do not ask for autograph, etc, and you can chat these guys up for a good while.
have seen ali/entourage, but that's like going to see (god forgive me) santa claus. seen jack kemp, seen joe friggin namath! twice! seen mickey mantle, yogi. almost passed out trying not run over there. just walked over, said hello, asked about da family, some other stupid ****.of course yogi was invisible when he trraveled with mickey anyway, nobody running after him. mike vrabel. probably seen a few others but didn't know who they were.
it's easy to figure out who are the athletes because they don't look like normal people. they look like weight room freaks who escaped.
jim brown was great. obviously he-knew-who etc. we had the same flight. we just talked, for about 5 minutes, about the usual nothing stuff. some of these guys are really grateful when you don't start the fan stuff. and just walk over to chat them up.
i fly the new york shuttle, RT bos-ny and RT ny/dca, pretty frequently. when you do that enough you start to run into opther folks who travel between those cities.