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Originally Posted by Dayze
me just standing around at Camp
Alex - "hey how ya doing?
Me - "not bad".
Alex - ' you want an autograph or something"?
Me - "nah, I'm good. holy shit! is that Boomer Grigsby"?! (runs away)
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True story I've mentioned a couple times on here...
Back when camp was at River Falls in the 2002 offseason, fans would hang around the college's union/dining hall building so they could bombard players with autograph requests before and after lunch. Some players walked, some biked, and some rode the shuttle.
I went with my dad amidst a throng of fans. One of the shuttles arrived, and dozens of kids and adults bombarded everybody for an autograph. The fans were indiscriminate... rookies... training camp fodder... didn't matter. If you looked like an NFL player, you got an autograph request. All of a sudden one of the fans goes, "Look! Ryan Sims and Eddie Freeman rode their bikes!" The pile of fans swoops in on those two guys, who were surrounded by a bunch of old dudes... more than likely trainers and lower end coaches.
Well, as that group is trying to lock up their bikes on the racks, I see the old dudes waiting for the players to make their way over. I look over at the old guys and guess who else is there with them-- 40-something year old Morten Andersen!
My dad and I go over and have a good 5-minute chat with the guy while everybody else ****ing cluelessly swoons over the two fatty rookies. Seriously... there were dozens of people that zeroed in on that group of bikers and not one of them picked out Morten Andersen out of the crowd.
I could tell that Morten was really amused by the fact that he was unrecognized and confused for a worthless training staff guy who stretches groins on the sideline.