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I was interested in hearing any funny /comical intereactions with an athelete or celeb.

Here is mine.


One day I was at Starbucks early in the morning waiting for my usual coffee. I got my coffee and headed to the place where you can get the milk, sugar etc. This dude in a suit was in front of me. Every time I tried to grab something, he moved in that direction and cut me off from the essential coffee supplies. I remember it was cold outside, and I was late for work. I tried to move to the right and got blocked again, moved to the left and blocked again. I have very little patience at times and I yelled at the guy to "pick a side, buddy, I need some milk too!" The guy turns around and says sorry and it turned out to be George Clooney. Everyone around me froze. The girl to my right was capturing this moment on her iPhone and the actress to his left, who I cannot remember her name, just glared at me. The whole shop stared at me.
I felt like a king sized *** and decided to drink my coffee black and left the 'bucks. Moral of the story, kind words never hurt anyone but being an *** makes you look like an *** in front of EVERYONE.

so if you got anything like that on a comical or positive side of things, that would be great! Fire away.
 
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After a Flames / Hawks game in Calgary me and friend were talking to Bob Probert about who he fought who punched the hardest and for some reason I asked him to punch me (I was in a serious state of refreshment). He laughed it off and to be honest I'm kind of glad he declined my offer. Worst bit is he gave an answer but I have no idea who it was...

Second one (you can do this on any star and Ive always wanted to do this)... my dad and me were at a big rugby match in Scotland, the players came out onto the pitch for a pre-match walk around and my dads favourite player (Adrian Morley) came near us, so I call over "Adrian, how about a photo?" He comes and over and says no problem, so I say "Could you take one of me and my dad please?" - luckily he laughed about it... he is huge.
 
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After a Flames / Hawks game in Calgary me and friend were talking to Bob Probert about who he fought who punched the hardest and for some reason I asked him to punch me (I was in a serious state of refreshment). He laughed it off and to be honest I'm kind of glad he declined my offer. Worst bit is he gave an answer but I have no idea who it was...

Second one (you can do this on any star and Ive always wanted to do this)... my dad and me were at a big rugby match in Scotland, the players came out onto the pitch for a pre-match walk around and my dads favourite player (Adrian Morley) came near us, so I call over "Adrian, how about a photo?" He comes and over and says no problem, so I say "Could you take one of me and my dad please?" - luckily he laughed about it... he is huge.
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HAHAHAAHAH... I was eating M&Ms and now they are all over the floor..LOLOLOL..
You just reminded me of a good story I have about Kirk Muller. I will save that for another post. That one will take a while to write out lol
 
Couple of great stories there.

Clooney should have to pick a side. He's a guy that plays pretend for a living. No reason to keep someone from the milk. I can easily hear what you said to him in my head thinking of Wawa's back home.

My unexpected "celeb" run-in was the summer of 2010, and the World Series of Poker was taking place in Las Vegas. I was playing baccarat at Red Rock off-strip by myself, with my girlfriend sitting next to me. To my left comes Phil Ivey. He had mid-five figures in banana chips, and sat down to my left. He was wearing a Washington Capitals fleece pullover. It looked like one that you'd get free for subscribing to Sports Illustrated. My GF is an Ovechkin fan (don't ask), and has no clue who Ivey is. I obviously do and cooly (at least in my eyes) say hello to Phil and leave it at that. It's WSOP time and he's just looking to relax betting thousands at a time. He loses three hands in a row, and in an attempt to cheer him up, she tells Ivey that she likes his fleece. He puts on a smile and says thanks. He loses three out of the next four hands (sometimes we were playing on the same side, sometimes not, and was cool about it when my bet was about 1/10th of his and we were on opposite sides), says thanks, tokes the dealer and walks away. While I'm excited because I got to gamble with a guy like Ivey, my GF can't stop talking about his fleece. I then had to tell her who Ivey was and showed her some video from ESPN. Now whenever we see him on TV, his Caps fleece is always mentioned.

I forgot to mention that Ivey is only a celebrity to gambling degenerates such as myself. For those that don't know him, sorry for the waste of space...
 
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I don't know how celebrity this story is, but the MMA fans will appreciate it :p

About 2 months ago, I went to Portland for Strikeforce, and MC Hammer was at the post fight press conference sitting behind me. I was speaking to him after the presser was over, and I get a tap on my shoulder and this familiar voice go "Hey buddy...guy that Pat knows (in reference to his training partner Pat Healy) sorry I don't remember your name...could you please get me a picture with MC Hammer?" and I turn around and it's Matt Lindland (Olympic Silver Medallist / longtime MMA fighter) and then he hands me his phone and starts talking to MC Hammer about the "Hammer don't hurt em" tape and how he traded a bunch of cassettes for it back in the day and then he grabs his phone off me with this huge smile on his face and thanks me. I thought that was kind of funny that here's this guy I consider an MMA celebrity speaking like that to MC Hammer about buying his cassette tape 20 years before.

I'm sure I've got a few more stories...I just need time to remember them.
 
I have a couple rather long stories that may fit - one featuring Bill Goldberg (with cameo appearances of Miss Elizabeth, Kurt Heing and Rick Rude) and one featuring the coach Bobby Knight but neither one of them seems to fit so here goes one from the middle of Montana.

This was probably five or six years ago now - I was traveling for work to Bozeman MT where a college buddy of mine lived. After work we got a quick 18 in and were going to head to the local watering hole for some steaks and brews - I had to grab fuel before the activities began.

As I pulled into the gas station, which was relatively busy, I noticed this Volvo station wagon driving really slowly around the pumps and the lot - as I tried to navigate around other stalls to get to an open one, he was always in my way - this built up for a couple of minutes until finally I was in a position to move around him, frustration bubbling over I looked past my buddy in the passenger seat and fired off a friendly hand gesture to the driver in the grocery getter.

As I passed, our eyes met - he knew I meant business but did not change his demeanor when I hear my buddy whisper "you're flipping off Batman". Michael Keaton was driving the Volvo (like a twit I might add) - I pulled over my car, filled my tank and eyed down the slow driver the whole time...still not sure why he was circling the lot in this fashion but it makes for a (relatively) interesting story.
 
With my job in sales I do quite a bit of traveling and have been fortunate to have many encounters but my most recent is from Monday.
I arrived early for my flight back to Toronto from New York Monday night as I wanted to watch Andy Murray in the US open at the airport bar before catching my 6:30 flight. The first set ended in a tiebreaker and the bar was rather busy with people rooting against Murray. Two gents entered the bar and looked over as they saw me rooting rather passionately for my fellow Scot. When I heard the tall gent order a Diet Coke and heard his Scottish accent I knew I was with one of my own-and after about 30 seconds I realized that I was watching the match beside Gerard Butler. We chatted for a couple of minutes (after Murray won the first set...) he was very nice and I did get a photo with him for my wife.

Sadly when I met Rod Stewart about 4 years ago watching a Celtic/Hearts match at a pub in NYC I did not have a camera (or phone) with me. He too was a great guy and mingled with everyone during halftime.

Too many NHL stories-in my experiences hockey players are the best with fans. A few encounters from this year who really stood out for me would be Billy Smith, Cujo, Glenn Healy, Jason Spezza, Joe Bowen, Bob Cole, Brian Burke (great with fans) and John Tavares all who I met through golf or business functions.
 
I almost forgot about playing foosball with Mike Eagles and Kerry Clark in Charlotte after a pre-season game in Charlotte between the Caps and I believe the Rangers in some arena that looked like a thing of Jiffy-Pop. About half the Caps roster was at the bar. Aside from playing foosball and talking hockey, the highlight was Clark scoring and doing the moonwalk at center ice. Needless to say, he dropped the gloves his next shift.
 
i was 12 years old and met Mark Messier, i walked up to him all on my own, asked him ``Mr Messier, can you please sign my card``, he says ``**** off`` and he kept walking off.

from that moment on i have always hated him.
 
I have a few good ones from my college days living in Chicago (I worked a summer at Wrigley and met a lot of 'interesting' folks there, too). My most awkward was one day riding the elevator from the parking garage up to Office Depot to pick up some cheaper school supplies (college bookstores in the city are a pretty solid rip-off).

Office Depot was located around the corner The Second City comedy club, but that didn't occur to me until I realized that the rather large gentleman in the elevator with me and my buddy was Chris Farley.

I, of course, blurted, "No way! You're Chris Farley!"

To which he sharply replied, "I am! And I have NO idea who the !*%& you are!"

I replied, "Good point" under my breath and sulked away. He found us a little later and was cool about it and explained he was buying some office furniture for a skit he was doing at Second City. He passed away shortly after that.

I did learn my lesson, though, and I've made sure not to blurt a celebrity/athlete's name right back to them since...
 
I worked for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2003 and Manny Ramirez and I became cool when I was heading to the field through the visitor's dugout and there's Manny Ramirez in the tunnel with his pants around his ankle. The tunnel is wide enough for one person to get through or two people to wall hug and get by one another. I stop and he calls me over and hands me a note. He says "Can you please give this to the trainer?". I go over to the Boston trainer and hand him the note. He comes back with a tube of cream. I walk it over to Ramirez who now has half his underwear down exposing one *** cheek (I usually leave that part out) and I look at him and then the tube and I say "Oh F*CK no."....he laughed HARD. "No, pass it to me, I do it".
 
Some great stories here guys! I'll add one of my own with local alumni/current broadcaster Rob Ray.

I interned in the video department for the Sabres last year so I got to meet players and broadcasters alike pretty often. Rob Ray and I got along especially good though. One day, we were all hanging out in the office and one of my other co-workers starts playing some of Rayzers old fight videos off youtube (ironic since we had most of the original footage archived anyways lol) so Rayzer starts getting all excited and pumped up and starts full on punching one of our producers in the shoulder over and over again. We're all laughing having a good time and all of a sudden he grabs me by the coat collar, shaking me like a rag doll and pretends to punch me. Now I'm a very small dude (5' 6" and 140 pounds or so) so obviously this scared the poop outta me at first but we all laughed it off and had a great time listening to him tell us how much his hands hurt after destroying a guy and such.

Another fun one with Rayzer was when he came into the office in between alumni games being held at the arena. He comes in and is like "F***! I'm supposed to talk about the game last night on our show today and I forgot to watch it!" (the Sabres were out on the west coast at the time). I had watched the game so I gave him my opinions on the game and whatnot and eventually I took off for home. Come in the next day and Rayzer's like "Hey thanks man, you totally saved my a$$ yesterday! I went on the radio and basically quoted ya word for word!" Haha kinda cool to know that kinda stuff!

Steve
 
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I worked for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2003 and Manny Ramirez and I became cool when I was heading to the field through the visitor's dugout and there's Manny Ramirez in the tunnel with his pants around his ankle. The tunnel is wide enough for one person to get through or two people to wall hug and get by one another. I stop and he calls me over and hands me a note. He says "Can you please give this to the trainer?". I go over to the Boston trainer and hand him the note. He comes back with a tube of cream. I walk it over to Ramirez who now has half his underwear down exposing one *** cheek (I usually leave that part out) and I look at him and then the tube and I say "Oh F*CK no."....he laughed HARD. "No, pass it to me, I do it".
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LMAO...
 
Although I have lots of stories about Avs, this one about the Nuggets is my favorite.

One day during the summer after my 21st birthday we were in downtown Denver having some fun. Closing time came around and everyone was still kinda mingling on the street corner outside. My buddy punches me in the shoulder and says, "Dude, that's Marcus Camby!" Well, at 6'10" or so, it's pretty obvious he's right, so I walk over to say hi. After some small talk, I ask him where his limo is. He says, word for word, "S***, I ain't rollin' in no limo, I'm rollin' with hoes." :D

Well me, being slightly intoxicated, just start laughing hysterically. Not 2 minutes later, a convertible with 4 hot chicks pulls up. He hops in the back without opening the door and they drive away. I just looked at my friend, "Wow, he wasn't kidding..."
 
A friend of mine was getting married in the summer of 2005, I believe, in Calgary. As I was part of the grooms party we had just finished getting ready so we had tux suited up and were walking to the car. We all pile in, 5 guys in an suv all in tuxed and one Hot blonde lady, as we start leaving the parking lot we drove by the door slowly and stopped because Pat Quinn had just walked out of the hotel. I look over and excitedly say "hey that's Pat Quinn"

We then proceed to drive off. None of us thought to get a photo with him even though there was about 7 cameras in the car. Would have been a great photo especially since he was there for some hockey Canada business at the time lol
 
Hahaha, man, these are some good stories...I've got 3 myself...

I went to Vegas with a couple buddies to watch Pride FC (MMA) and we're cruising around the arena...I spot "Shogun" Rua standing around and wander over to ask for a 'graph when some drunk dude runs up and screams "NINJA!!" (Shoguns big bro) in his face...he just looked at me like he was going to kill the next person who talked to him...needless to say, no auto that day...

Living in Vancouver, I was slaving away at a Rogers Video...some guy comes up to rent a movie and I ask him for a piece of ID like a diligent video store clerk would do and I read the name William Ranford on his DL. I instantly panic as I realize this is Bill Ranford, the dude I grew up idolizing and shotgunning to be whenever we played road/ice hockey. I totally froze up and acted like a spaz, possibly giving Mr. Ranford the most creepy movie renting experience of his life...

During a early 20s life crisis, I ran off to Whistler and got a job as a gorilla mascot for a bar (no, seriously...). I'm going pee in the trough and I look over to realize I'm standing beside Wesley Snipes...he sees me staring at him and says "Hey..." accompanied by a serious WTF look. Man, that was super weird...
 
These are awesome.. any more? Someones gotta have some gems lying around.
 

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