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met Rip Hamilton who used to play for the Detroit Pistons and Terrell Owens on the streets in Miami Beach once. That’s about it for “celebrity” encounters but I don’t really view either as a celebrity. To me they are well known athletes to people that follow sports, but very few athletes transcend sports and reach celebrity status imo. You’re talking maybe a handful of star NBA players (Magic, Bird, Jordan, LeBron), handful of superstar NFL QB’s (Brady, Manning, Mahomes), Tiger Woods, and handful of soccer players (Messi, Ronaldo).

When I think of the word celebrity I tend to think a celebrity is someone that is massively famous around the globe and usually in music or film, someone like Taylor Swift, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Drake, Leo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Eminem, Kanye West, Mike Tyson, Denzel Washington, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Dave Chappelle, Tiger Woods, Jay-Z, Will Smith, Justin Bieber, The Rock. People like that.

I think the most famous I ever met was Chuck Norris. Early-mid 90s so he was still very much at the height of his fame, but this was before the internet so Chuck Norris internet memes didn't yet exist. 

Possibly also Mike Ditka. The year I caddied at Chicago Golf Club he was a guest of a member one day. I neither carried his bag nor was I with anyone else in his group, but a thunderstorm rolled in and several groups of golfers and caddies got stuck at the halfway house to wait it out. I was able to have him sign my yardage book. He was a big broad-chested dude, but he was also wearing shorts, and it looked like he'd spent a couple decades skipping leg day 

I wouldn't say he's a celebrity, but I had the opportunity to chat with Steve Stricker about a year or so ago. We talked mostly about the Ryder Cup he captained and won. Very nice man.

Heh.

GR tops all 3 of us. The dood is like 7' tall.

I'm trying to think of the most famous person I ever met, it's probably William Shatner.  Nimoy was off to the side, I waved at him.

Mike Dewine wrote a recommendation for my kid to law school, that was pretty cool.  I didn't know about it at the time.

I suspect being a famous person is difficult at times.

like everything, there are levels to fame. I'm sure having just enough fame to have people recognize you and maybe give you free sh*t at bars or restaurants and be polite and maybe ask for a picture might be kinda cool.

To have the level of fame that someone like Elvis Presley achieved when he broke through and became really the first mega-celebrity in US pop culture thanks to new-ish mediums like radio & tv, or Michael Jackson after Thriller hit and it became the biggest selling album in the world of all-time, or Leo DiCaprio when Titanic hit and became the biggest movie ever and he became the biggest movie star in the world, or Eminem after he released The Marshall Mathers LP and it was selling 2+ million copies a week and wound up selling almost 30 million copies in the US alone and then came out with the movie 8 Mile and had the #1 movie, #1 album, and #1 single in the world simultaneously - that kinda fame would be scary as f*ck and absolutely suck. When you get that big and you can't even go out in public and leave the house without crowds forming and pandemonium ensuing and people losing their god damn minds when they see you has to really be tiring and a massive burden and could see how people fall into the trap of drug addiction and isolation quickly to cope.

What is the F4 in Atlanta?