Celebrity Jerks I Have Met

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Met George Foreman on a flight from KC-Houston. The flight was delayed and he signed autographs, and talked to anyone who walked up to him. On the flight, the 1st class bathroom was out of order, so he had to walk to the back of the plane. He joked with everyone along the way. good guy.
 
Barney the dinosaur came through the Frank Erwin. First, all that jumping around is really tiring, so they actually use 3 or 4 different but identical Barneys during the entire show. And the costumes are hot, so the guys are close to naked underneath. This group all smoked. So back stage there are three naked, smoking, fat pasty white guys with the bottom half of a Barney costume on and Barney heads lying at their feet. I simply can't see Barney anymore without cracking up.
 
The celebrity deals I remember were from the Pro Football HOF. A friend of mines dad is a member of the hall so we got some special treatment.

Met a lot of players and none of them were jerks. Nicest guy in the room though was the Manster, Randy White. Just a great guy. Looks like he could still kick some *** too.

Ted Hendricks was an absolute maniac. The guy was sucking down beers all night and when we left he was carrying two bottles of Jager and looking to party with Randy. Wouldnt want to be around those two if they were shitfaced and mad.

Have had some indirect with Hendricks since then and he has always been great. Smart as **** too.
 
Bill Clinton - very cool guy
G.W. Bush - also a very cool guy
Willie Mays - sucks. very unpleasant
Ernie Banks - awesome
Mickey Mantle - very funny
Joe Dimaggio - nice, but very reserved
Herschel Walker - incredibly nice guy
Everson Walls - also a very nice guy
Michael Irvin - very funny and a nice guy
 
No one I know who has met Raymond Floyd has had a good thing to say about him and that seems to be true about this thread, too.
 
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-- Sam Donaldson
-- Mark Cuban
-- Guy Kawaski
-- Jack Nicholas
-- Jerry Jeff Walker
-- Toby Keith
-- Darrell Johnston

Cool:

-- Charles Barkley
-- Ernie Els
-- Barry Switzer
-- ESPN Gameday crew
--Shaq
-- Phil Mickelson
-- Erik Larson
-- Norman Brinker
-- Jim Donnan

The coolest:

-- Nick Price
-- Roger Staubach
-- Mickey Mantle
-- Darrell Royal
-- Troy Aikman
-- Billy Tubbs
-- Bob Stoops
-- Larry Coker
-- Billy Joe Shaver
-- Grant Hill
-- Jerry Yang
-- Guy Clark
-- Dave Whitlock (fly fishing guru)
-- Robert Duvall
 
I remember some sports magazine -- probably SI -- had a two-page layout showing different physical oddities in sports. They had a full-scale photo of one of Randy White's hands.

My God. You could have served a Thanksgiving turkey on that thing.
 
Shared a first class cabin with Little Richard. He made a stewardess cry, accusing her of stealing his ruby sunglasses, ranting the entire flight. They were under his seat. He is completely ******* insane.

Worked out with Priest Holmes in San Antonio before he joined the Ravens. Very cool and humble guy.

Sat next to Ted Nugent at the airport during a long layover in Denver. He interrogated me on a number of issues for two hours, determined that "I had great potential" and made me promise that I would begin killing and cleaning my own meat. Loved the Motor City Madman. He's as deaf as a doorstop too.

Saw Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney have a bawling meltdown in the Continental President's Club in Newark because there were no electrical outlets near her chair. Her entourage soothed her like a 5 year old child.
 
On DC/NY shuttle once, plane had to taxi back to gate. Pilot came on speaker, irritated, announcing all passengers needed to be strapped in seats during taxi or we lose our spot in line. No bathroom usage at that time. Door pops open in back of plane, everyone looks back, out steps Jesse Jackson. Some chuckles (the NY people), some groans (the DC people).

Upon landing, I followed him out. He was alright. Good-sized dude and impressively fit for his age. When we got to the pilot, he said, "Hey, you got me on that bafroom deal." Thats a direct quote, no embellishment. Dont be a hater.
 
Una mas.

Got stuck in airport bar with Dick Enberg and his producer in Minneapolis. Had been to Oiler-Viking Game (this was 91 or 92 game when Moon got killed by John Randle, et al. Carlson finished and Oilers squeaked it out). We were waiting on NW airlines flight to San Diego. As cool and gracious as you might imagine. We had long talk about Oiler woes over the years. He had called many of their games on NBC.
 
A buddy's story but still funny -

My buddy was breaking in doing TV sports in Dallas in the late '90's. He and his camera crew are in some airport heading out from an event they were covering and who do they spot but college football announcing legend Keith Jackson.

My buddy goes up to him, camera crew hovering behind, and asks Keith if he can give them a quick bite about some college game or another, and he semi-politely declined.

As he's turning away my buddy yells, "Keith, Keith, come on - it's for Dallas!" Jackson stops, turns, and in that exact voice that's made a thousand classic calls over the years says, "**** Dallas."

And walks away.

Greatness.
 
Ken Curtis was at Wards in Tyler for some event when I was 6, his manager told us he would sign autographs and was getting pissed off, Curtis stopped and told him these are my fans they made my career, he stopped and signed for an hour.
 
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