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Originally Posted by BossChief
Tony Gonzalez never signed unless he was under contract to, like on family fun night or his position group was signing. Every single practice I went to over his whole career, a group of kids would gather where the players left the practice fields and that prick would jog up just close enough to give a half hearted “go Chiefs” and never once went all the way over and signed. Not once.
I get not wanting to sign autographs for grown men. I do. But if you don’t sign for the kids and jog over everytime like you’re going to…just a huge jerk.
You know who was the nicest guy every day? It’s a toss up between Dustin Colquit and Larry Johnson (of all people). LJ would stay after every practice and sign for every kid that wanted his signature. He would pose for every picture request. He would carry on conversations with the group of kids and genuinely made them feel special.
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I was a teenager at the time. My dad and I got away from the other fans who were parked by the shuttle loading zones to hound players for autographs, but Tony decided to just walk across campus around the back. He was with a trainer. When I asked him to sign and he ignored me, I heard the trainer say, "Tony, remember what Lamar said about being nice to the fans..."
I had two hats. One for me, one for me cousins. He asked me which one to sign and I kind of panicked and said, "Uh... both?" He got pretty testy. "Which one, man?!" Until the trainer said again, "Tony..." and he reluctantly signed them both.
I told him thank you and DEFINITELY heard him under his breath, "Eh, go **** yourself, kid"