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I met Marty once at Derrick Thomas' birthday party (I lived in Chicago at the time and, coincidentally, DT and Neil Smith's publicist lived up the street so she got me in) before the Denver playoff in 97. He was very generous with his time, pulling me aside to get away from the music that was blaring to walk into the common area of the old Arrowhead Club at the stadium where the party was held. Spent probably 10 minutes talking - about all kinds of things including the 95 playoff loss. Seemed to be a great guy.