I crashed then governor George W. Bush's party with my father and grandmother, and was escorted out by the Texas Rangers, but I didn't actually meet him, so that doesn't count.
When I was about 10 visiting the Comal with the family we met the singer from Slayer, he was awesome and his wife was stacked. I've met a lot of politicians, Perry rubbed me the wrong way. Ted Cruz is very friendly and seemed like a person you'd want to grab a beer with. To those who said Lema I agree he was always super nice. They were filming some ABC family show at my campus earlier this year, I think Pretty Little Liars, and the actresses were very down to earth and approachable. The guy from the Office was in the show too but I didn't talk to him.
I got to play one on one with Clyde Drexler at one of his basketball camps. Super cool and obviously let me win.
When I owned the bar back in Houston I got the pleasure of meeting a lot of celebrities and athletes. At first it was amazing to meet the athletes you grew up with, but then it became second nature to me and they all were pretty down to earth guys. Gonna try and remember as many as I can, or at least the ones that were cool with me. Matt Bullard - Met him his rookie year when the Rockets still did open houses at the Summit. He was in the locker room trying on his new shoes and that was back when Nike gave away those plastic rectangular things with the high end Nike Airs or Jordans. I talk to him a bit and said nice shoes, he said thanks, we get them for free. I asked him for the plastic thing and he was like, sure thing. Haven't really had a chance to meet him since then and bring it up. Steve Francis - Used to come to the bar all the time with Cuttino. He was a really cool guy and we eventually became friends. He would call me every weekend to know what's going on and how busy we were before coming by. Fondest memory was hanging out with him after the Rockets beat the Lakers in that playoff game. We were all going crazy. He was truly happy that night. Come to think of it maybe he shouldn't have been out after the game partying lol. Cuttino Mobley - Was basically attached at the hip with Francis most of the time when they were both out. He was a cool cat indeed. He sometimes went out on his own though cause lets say his style of ladies were a bit different than Steve's. Overall was also a great guy and easy to talk to. Andre Johnson - Had the pleasure of hosting his sunday night parties at my place so this is where a lot of the people I met came in. He was by far as quiet as they say. Always super nice but didn't have much to say but always respectful. Tried talking to him a few times about David Carr and how we need help there. He never through David under the bus or anything like that. Always was upbeat and just a standup guy. Never saw him drink either. Corey Bradford - All I got to say is the guy is a beast physically. One of the nicest guys. He used to always hang out with Tony Hollings and Stacey Mack back in the day. Never drank liquor always cranberry juice. Super nice guy and always said what's up and gave me a hug when he ran into me at the clubs. Stacey Mack - This man is a party animal and huge. Nicest guy you will ever meet. Always bought stuff on credit with me. Bottles left and right and then said I will pay you later. Then showed up middle of the week paid his dues and invited me to bar b q's to hang with the guys. Unfortunately I wasn't ever able to make it. Would have been nice. Such a good guy all around. Tony Hollings - Good guy, liked to party a lot didn't talk much other than ordering drinks but was a nice guy. Ben Wallace - Met him actually when he was suspended for the brawl in Detroit. He wasn't allowed to play so he came in to watch the game. Had a couple Corona's and minded his own business. Nice guy as well. Charles Woodson Used to come to the Sunday parties as well and sat in the booth next to Andre all the time. He was much more of a party animal compared to Andre. Nice guy as well. Tony Parker and Eva - Had a party for them during all star weekend. They were both really nice for the most part. They didn't take too many pictures. I asked them to take a pic with me and they were a bit weary to do it and kept saying " we don't want this on some tabloid" I had to reassure them it was just for me which it was. Jerome Bettis - Came in on Superbowl sunday party that we did for NFL players. He was super nice, by far one of the nicest most down to earth guys I have met. He came up to the bar and I went up to him and said hi and he talked to me a bit. I asked him for a picture and he was very nice and said sure. He always had a smile on his face. After i took the picture for him I told him that his drink is on me and he was still insisting on paying for it. Super down to earth and humble guy. Allen Iverson - Some promoters came and wanted to throw a party for him. By far one of the biggest douches I have met. He was a plain ass from the moment he walked in. He showed up to the party at 1 AM and everyone was pissed off. Came right in and demanded we give him free alcohol. I looked him dead in his eye and said these are the prices if you want anything. Then his body guard came up and said to me "He wants to know what you will give him for showing up" I said, "not a damn thing, talk to the promoter that brought you here" Needless he was a jerk the whole time and left after 15 minutes when he realized we weren't going to give him anything for free. Willie McGnist - Kind of stand offish guy. Didn't want to really talk or take a picture during SB weekend in Houston. Edgerrin James - Met him SB weekend as well as other U of Miami Players since AJ had his SB party at our place. He was super nice, bit ghetto but funny as hell. He spent most of the night in the bathroom rolling dice with a huge stack of bills. Snoop Dogg - had a party at my place and he was a total trip. Came in with about 20 girls and was high as a kite when he walked in. He didn't want to leave the VIP area the whole night. Just sat there and kept blazing up and dancing. i have pics from that night, very hilarious. Paul Pierce - Was a pretty chill guy first time I met him but when the night was done i went up to his body guard and asked him for an autograph on one of our girls uniforms that we put in the display case. While Pierce is standing right next to me his body guard says we don't normally do this because of all the people trying to sell his stuff. I looked at him and said, "you think I am going to sell a girls shirt with Paul Pierce's signature?" He gave me a look and then a very drunk Pierce signed the shirt. Next time I ran into him was in Vegas after they won the championship. He was carrying around a wresting championship belt and dancing all by himself. I have met a slew of other celebrities/athletes but nothing too interesting to mention. If anything else comes to mind I will just update it.
Yeah, count me in as one of the many people here who has met Drexler. Talked to him briefly on a plane coming back from Orlando. He even took off his headphones to say hello and didn't act put out at all. That should tell you something when pretty much every account of meeting him in this thread is positive. Repped. More, please. Hell, you and AB should start a separate thread!
Justine Bateman walked out of her way to pat me on the head when i was a kiddie during a Family Ties shoot in the 80's.
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Steve Kerr, believe it or not Kobe, Avery johnson, Adam silver, Kevin Willis probably the friendliest in that they weren't just polite, they were friendly
met, worked with, and partied with too many to name. generally, they want to talk to me as i am that ****ing awesome. sometimes i'm nice, sometimes not. deal with it, brahs.
francis ford coppola quiet hugh grant friendly drank with bill paxton when they filmed in houston. nice guy..wanted to bring up chet but didnt talked to governor of hawaii on a plane (he had no where to run to) good guy. got his business card for grins. lionel richie is the nicest dude ever. went to a party and michael jacksons dad joe jackson was there.. he is cool. I talked to him for a while and I didnt know it was him or make the connection of him being mikos dad. I was pretty tore up but we chilled. I think he liked me and chilled with me because I didnt know who he was. undercover brother black guy was there too.. (cant think of his name) and he was cool.. He's funny like his character. good fun. Barkley shook the only black guy with us hand, and dissed all us white guys at the club. Every time nash or nowitzki come in town I would always see them out. Some friends from work claimed to smoked out with mario elie. Flavor flav used to come in to where I worked. I was never a public enemy guy so I didn't really know who he was. I waited on his table several times. he was nice enough but came across as some loser crack head washed up from years ago. This was 1997 when his career was down the tubes in terms of popularity. I really didn't make the connection too much of his fame. My manager did and would sit down with him and talk. He was trying to bang the poon he brought which was a not very hot looking community college indian or filipino chick. But low grade. He didnt really act strange or play the whole crazy guy part. He was really subdued and soft spoken.. I kinda almost felt bad for him because he seemed to have no friends.. it was like who is this guy trying to become like a regular and what is his deal? it was weird. We sort of felt bad for the guy. then one day he didnt come in anymore. Didnt think much of it ..then later he was all over tv. my wifes friend went out with keith jones rocket trainer.She got injured soon after.. just joking.. not much to report about that except that my wifes friend is butt ugly.keith jones has really low standards. friend of family was involved in a drug fueled relationship with the bassist from smashing pumpkins (darcy) she is a crazy rock star. Ken caminiti went to the same catholic church was quiet guy. Calvin murphy has always been nice.
i can believe kobe. a buddy of mine has a great, great kobe story. team USA was training in vegas before the last olympics, and my buddy and his bro-in-law were staying at the same hotel as the team (wynn, if i remember correctly). anyhow, they got on the elevator one morning, the elevator stopped a few floors down, and in walks kobe. tells them hi, exchanges pleasantries. stops again a couple more floors down, and an elderly lady walks in, and upon seeing the three of them (kobe and 2 white guys), says "are you guys basketball players?". without missing a beat, my buddy says "i'm not, but this is cory, starting power forward for the Miami Dade Jewish Community Center, and this is Kobe, a shooting guard for Los Angeles". all the meanwhile, kobe has his head down, doing all he can to contain his laughter, which he unleashed once the lady exited the elevator. shook their hands and told them "good one, fellas", and off he went. my friend tells it better, but that's the gist.
I forgot... also, Mary Lou Retton... I spoke to her a few times because her daughters were in Gymnastics at the same place where my daughters were going a few years ago... and she was not all that "adorable", but she wasn't a B!***, either. She said hello to the moms and dads and joked around a lot with the kids and staff of the place. --------------------------------------- Yes. Use the OLD code option and add "&start=82" to the source (82 stands for seconds after the start). Click [x] Use old embed code. On the resulting HTML code, find the embed or SRC parameter that ends with "en_US". After the S, include the time reference in seconds. For example, for this video you chose, the SRC parameter would be 60+22, so 82 as follows (see this code, and how I add the time after "en_US"). It must have an ampersand "&" and then "start=time" <object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Q8GoHlja0k?version=3&hl=en_US&start=82"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Q8GoHlja0k?version=3&hl=en_US&start=82" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> You can actually add the "&start=[time]" anywhere in the middle, or after the "?start=[time]&" must have the & after the time, so you can add more parameters to the URL YouTube embeds.
My younger brother and I were at baggage claim back from our family vacation and Steve Francis was standing next to us, I tapped my brother to make sure he saw him, but we didn't talk to him. Someone else came over and asked for an autograph and he signed it. I was at a summer math camp at SWT, I was eating some donuts for breakfast in the cafeteria and all of a sudden G.W. Bailey walks over with some kid (he was an adjunct and helping run some other camp) and says sarcastically "this guy knows something about healthy food." Then he asked me how I was doing and I said fine. And of course I got my picture taken with Felicia Jeter at the Monument on Sesquicentennial.
yea, everyone finds this one to be the most surprising since he is generally accepted as a jerk. I saw him in California and it was a private setting iwthout cameras and he was just as nice, laid back, and actually making conversation, paying attention, repsonding, etc. Even some of the polite players just kind of are polite but won't talk and just try to move on, so I was surprised that he was just willing to converse. I mean i thought it was cool that he was telling those fans about moves he thought should be made(that whole bynum controversy) I mean look at us on clutchfans, imagine if one our players we could just sit andtalk hoops and hear what they had to say informally, those guys were jerks in posting that on the internet and making it unlikely for him to do so again. Anyways, yea he maybe a jerk on the court, but hes one of the cooler ones in real life I'd say the friendlist was steve kerr and silver
I've only met one guy who could be considered a celebrity, the type of person TMZ or People would follow. Jesse Ventura, I met him at the MN State Fair a few years ago and was generally friendly but did seem a little full of himself. I asked him if he would be willing to stop by my Judo class to see us sparring but he said he was so broken down he didn't even want to be in a gym. He spent most of the about 10 minutes I was talking to him about how busy and in demand he was. Met Anderson Silva at an MMA event. He wasn't fighting but since I was friends with the organizer of the he introduced me. He didn't talk much, I get the feeling his English wasn't very good, but he did take a picture with me and my friends. The main thing I remember about him though was that his hands are huge. I actually fought Oleg Taktarov (winner of UFC 6) about 12 years ago. This was the early days of MMA and he did a workshop at a gym I was training at. I got to face him in a practice match and I came out and actually threw him. Almost right away on the ground he put me in an ankle lock and I tapped out. Other than that he seemed like a nice guy and had some good techniques. I helped to train Sammy Morgan who was on the Ultimate Fighter 2 when he was a teenager. He was one of those kids who you could tell had talent as a kid and I remember beating him regularly until after a few years things went the other way. He was always respectful to me and other people he trained with but was an emotional fighter. I also got to do a couple of workshops with Jimmy Pedro, 1999 Judo World Champion, 2000 and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist. Very nice guy with great technique and a good teacher. Fortunately, or unfortunately for me, I was used as his demontration partner a few times. Besides martial artists I've met several some somewhat famous musicians and several politicians. The most famous musician I've met was Eugene Hutz and some of the other members of Gogol Bordello two years at an afterparty of one their shows. They seemed pretty down to earth but I did see Eugene Hutz pull off one rockstar move. When a waitress walked by with some bread he reached out and grabbed some without asking. I guess he was hungry. I did a lot of drinking a couple of times with Keith Roberts of the Young Dubliners and apparently once with some members of Great Big Sea and Dropkick Murphys after the MN Irish fair but a true Irish and trying to keep up with Keith Roberts I don't remember those guys. Also got to split a bottle of Chrystal with Josh Hartnett on election night of 2004. I didn't know who he was until someone told me later. Seemed pretty nice and down to earth. I met the late Paul Wellstone twice and he was very friendly. Although he promised to come and visit the U of MN Judo Club where I was training at then, and now coach but never did. This was a few years before his tragic death. I've met former Senator Norm Coleman a few times the last time it was on a flight from MN to San Diego last year. He seemed much more friendly and relaxed then than he did when he was in office. Met Tim Pawlenty when he was running for governor and he was the nicest most personable politician I've met. I got the best politician answer from then Senator and now Governor Mark Dayton. He was at the MN State Fair talking to voters. One guy next me asked him "When are you going to get rid of the Electoral College system, it's unconstitutional." I said "But it's in the Constitution." Sen. Dayton replied in a very loud voice. "You are both right!"
Charles Barkley - one time the rockets played a regular season game here in Mexico, and I got courtside tickets, they were in the warm up shooting right before the game, and he saw I was wearing a barkley jersey, so he walked to my seat and said hello, shook my hand, and gave me his autograph, and got to shooting to get ready for the game, but he was very friendly with me.
Dan Gilbert- The owner of the Cavs. I met him when all star weekend was in Houston and had no idea who he was. My buddy and I talked to him for about 15 minutes thinking he was a trainer or something until he told us he owned the team. Really nice guy, I told him he should make some crazy trades. Ended up giving my buddy and I free tickets to Jam Session. Allen Iverson- All he did was shake my hand and say whats up. Seemed like a cool dude but who knows. Daryl Johnston- Went to a Dallas Cowboys camp back in the day. He was a beast from what I can remember and a cool guy. Luis Scola- After the Rockets open practice. Seemed like he didnt want to be f3d with.
WOW! How am I barely checking into this awesome thread?? Anyway, I personally haven't met a ton of celebrities but my dad has... He's told me a few stories so here they go: My dad has always loved baseball more than anything else and he devoted a lot of time to collecting baseball memorabillia. A lot of this happened in the 80's and 90's. He would go to different conventions and autograph sessions to meet former/current players and to get their autograph. Anyway here's some people he's met and got autographs. Ted Williams- My dad said he was a grumpy old dude. Didn't say much just signed your ball and moved on. Mickey Mantle- Really friendly guy. He was my dad's hero growing up so naturally my dad was stoked when he stopped and talked for a while. Genuinely a nice guy. Joe Dimaggio-Nice guy. Really same as Mantle. J.R. Richard- My dad met him at work one time. They got coffee and talked for a good little while. My dad said he could tell Richard was still sad about how his career ended so suddenly, but he tried to stay positive. He signed a ball for my dad saying "best of luck htownrox1's dad- j.r. richard." Special ball. He met a bunch more like Bagwell, Biggio, Hank Aaron, Reggie Jackson, Nolan Ryan, etc. My dad's got a collection of over 800 signed baseballs by different players.
