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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Kris60 on June 16, 2024, 06:54:25 PM
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We are taking my daughter to a softball camp tomorrow in Tennessee. We decided to come down today and stay at a waterpark in Pigeon Forge (camp is at UT in Knoxville).
Anyway, the wife is inside checking us in and we are in a line of cars out front. This gray haired guy steps out of a Mercedes and my first thought is “I think that’s Roy Williams.” As I’m looking at him trying to decipher if it is he walks up to my window and motions for me to roll it down. I roll my window down and he asks if he’s in the right line or if he’s going to get stuck here.
It was definitely Roy Williams. Lol. I told him he was in the right place. I didn’t let on like I recognized him but I’ve been geeking out to everyone else about it.
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Roy Williams ….
UT Wide receiver
OU DB ?
Basketball coach ?
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Roy Williams ….
UT Wide receiver
OU DB ?
Basketball coach ?
I thought my description of a gray haired man gave it away. It was the basketball coach.
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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.
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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.
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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 :57:
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I too met Ditka. He was hammered.
So was Harry Caray.
Walter Payton was a pleasure.
Jim McMahon is a riot. Drunk as a skunk.
Lou Boudreaux was pretty cool.
Carlton Fisk was very stoic.
Pete Rose was an asshole.
I'll have to think about more. Definitely more Chicago Bears.
It was mostly when I was younger, so memory fades.
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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.
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I met Utee one time, that was pretty neat, and of course Gatorama a couple of times, and even badgerfan.
Nobody can top those three.
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Heh.
GR tops all 3 of us. The dood is like 7' tall.
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Probably the most famous person Ive ever met is Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist and
Doris Roberts all at the same time
Back in the mid 80s I was staying at the Desert Inn in Vegas and during that stay to my surprise they were shooting an episode of Remington Steel which stared these three actors
The neat thing was they shot sceens while regular gambling was going on
anyway during a rest break they were standing by themselves in a corner and I went over and introduced myself to Pierce. He reached out and shook my hand and introduced the other two stars to me. He was very upbeat and nice. He asked me where I was from and we talked for about 5 minutes and I was in awe at how down to earth they were
To this day I have that episode saved found it on utube
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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.
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I met Billy Bob Thornton outside the F4 in Atlanta and you know how he pretty much always plays a drunk? I'm not sure that is acting.
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What is the F4 in Atlanta?
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I hear ya Mdot. Some people want to be rich and famous. I say screw the fame; I just wanna be rich and unknown.
Although if I end up doing this YouTube channel maybe I'll be low-level internet famous, aka infamous.
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What is the F4 in Atlanta?
Final Four
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I hear ya Mdot. Some people want to be rich and famous. I say screw the fame; I just wanna be rich and unknown.
Although if I end up doing this YouTube channel maybe I'll be low-level internet famous, aka infamous.
It's like the Tears For Fears song "Everybody Wants To Rule The World."
Not me, I don't want to rule it.
I just want to own it.
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I'm not sure being truly wealthy is as much fun as it seems it should be.
My wife's friend is pretty wealthy and still has "issues" she can't buy her way out of. And wealth can attract issues at times.
I'm content to be just plain wealthy, according to some here.
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Anyway, celebrities I've met (of varying levels of fame):
Johnny Cash
Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Jerry Jeff Walker
Larry Gatlin
Darrel Royal
Earl Campbell
Mack Brown
Ricky Williams
Vince Young
And I once saw Jason Priestly walking around the airport terminal in Colorado Springs.
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I hear ya Mdot. Some people want to be rich and famous. I say screw the fame; I just wanna be rich and unknown.
Although if I end up doing this YouTube channel maybe I'll be low-level internet famous, aka infamous.
like 2pac said, "all I want is money, f*ck the fame, I'm a simple man".
being a little famous might not be so bad, but being the biggest thing in the world has got to really suck though. kinda why I always felt bad for Michael Jackson even though he was most definitely extremely weird af at best and possibly even a criminal deviant at worst, but how was someone like that ever going to be any bit normal? guy was performing in clubs and venues since the age of 5 years old, became very famous when he was like 10 years old when he came out with his brothers and they had a bunch of #1 singles and records with ABC, I'll Be There, etc., etc., and then when he becomes an adult in his mid 20's he comes out with Thriller and it becomes the biggest phenomenon in music ever and he becomes literally the most famous person in the entire world and can't do sh*t without crowds following him and pandemonium ensuing and he's on the cover of tabloids, newspapers, magazines every single day for decades with people saying all kinds of wild sh*t about you 24/7. everyone always kissing your ass and you can't really trust anyone because they want something out of you. that kind of life has got to royally suck balls.
I don't really consider YouTube people famous. I don't really know who any of them are, feel like it's mostly little kids that watch YouTube "influencers".
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Went to a presentation in College, circa 1998, where GW Bush was the speaker (Gov of Tx at the time). Pretty good speech, I can see how he was elected president. Then afterwards him and RC Slocum were kind standing off to the side, about 10-15 feet away from me having a casual conversation. I really wanted to go up and meet them, but I decided it would be rude and didn't want to bother them. Other than that, never even been close to any celebrities except maybe part of a crowd at a concert. But like I said, I had the chance to shake their hand and let it slip by. No camera back in the last century on my person, but man that would have made a neat picture.
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I don't really consider YouTube people famous. I don't really know who any of them are, feel like it's mostly little kids that watch YouTube "influencers".
lol
11 year old girls have run the music industry for multiple generations, so...
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I don't really consider YouTube people famous. I don't really know who any of them are, feel like it's mostly little kids that watch YouTube "influencers".
I do agree that they're not widely famous.
However, it's not just little kids.
We had my FIL over last night for dinner and he was talking about a couple of the channels he really loves, one that I recall was "Professor of Rock", who basically has a show about rock music, interviewing rock stars, etc. And when I mentioned a guy that a coworker showed me, who is the same genre, named Rick Beato, he said "oh yeah I know him; we watch his stuff too."
I've personally seen a bunch of golf-related content, which is obviously not aiming for little kids as an audience. Yeah, each of the guys are only really "known" to golfers as opposed to widely famous, but if you talk to golfers you'll find a LOT of them who know these folks by name.
If I do something, it'll be cooking-related. Granted that is a very crowded genre on YouTube, but the more that I think about it, I think I can offer a unique voice that I don't see anyone else doing right now.
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Played against Antawn Jamison. They were staying at the same hotel as us. Talked a bit later around the pool after the game. Solid dude.
Shawn Marion used to come play with us when I was at Austin Peay. He went to high school in Clarksville. He was a cocky little shit. Ran into him a few times later and he had grown up quite a bit.
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I do agree that they're not widely famous.
However, it's not just little kids.
We had my FIL over last night for dinner and he was talking about a couple of the channels he really loves, one that I recall was "Professor of Rock", who basically has a show about rock music, interviewing rock stars, etc. And when I mentioned a guy that a coworker showed me, who is the same genre, named Rick Beato, he said "oh yeah I know him; we watch his stuff too."
I've personally seen a bunch of golf-related content, which is obviously not aiming for little kids as an audience. Yeah, each of the guys are only really "known" to golfers as opposed to widely famous, but if you talk to golfers you'll find a LOT of them who know these folks by name.
If I do something, it'll be cooking-related. Granted that is a very crowded genre on YouTube, but the more that I think about it, I think I can offer a unique voice that I don't see anyone else doing right now.
The thing about YouTube is that it's so huge now, that if the content is good, it'll find an audience that appreciates it.
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As a HS football official, I did a game featuring both Charles Woodson (Fremont Ross) and Orlando Pace (Sandusky HS). Both of them were heads and shoulders better than everyone else of the field.
I officiated other teams with some players that were well known in college like Tim Anderson (Clyde HS, Ohio State DT) and Damon Moore (Fostoria HS, Ohio State Safety). There are a few others, but I don't remember a lot them.
Growing up in Columbus, I would frequently run into a few Ohio State players and coaches. Art Schlichter and one of the O-Linemen (his name escapes me) lived in an apartment complex one block north of were we lived. There was an outdoor pool that we (neighborhood kids) would sneak into where Art and roommate would hang out.
My sophmore (Whetstone HS) season, Earle Bruce showed up in our lockerroom pregame. He was recruiting a couple of guys on the team.
I college, I was hired to do security at a concert that featured Micky Gilley. I got to talk with him a little. Nice guy. We also did security for a band called Alabama. I hear they made it big, but not being a fan of country music, I have no idea what they sang. But they were all pretty cool back stage. They definately liked to drink and I shared a couple of beers with them.
I met Charlie Danials backstage at a show during Ohio Bike Week a few years back. Again, nice guy.
On a flight to Nashville, I sat next to a drummer for some country band that made it big. I don't know who it is, but my wife and the other 2 women with us knew who they were and were getting autographs from the other members of the band that were in the rows ahead of us. Didn't mean much to me, but the drummer was pretty cool to talk with.
I met Red Buttons when I was about 5 or 6. My mom worked for his best friend at a shop in downtown Columbus. Buttons would come into the shop when he was in town. One time my mom had me with her when she stopped into the shop to pick up something and he happened to be there. I vaugly remember it, but from what I do remember, he seemed like a very kind person.
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As a HS football official, I did a game featuring both Charles Woodson (Fremont Ross) and Orlando Pace (Sandusky HS). Both of them were heads and shoulders better than everyone else of the field.
that's pretty god damn cool. two of the all-time great players in the history of football.
Both were very high NFL draft picks and NFL HoF'ers, but they weren't the best ever at their positions in the league. I think it's fair to say Deion Sanders is widely considered the NFL CB GOAT and Anthony Munoz the NFL OT GOAT. Having said that, I think if you are talking strictly college football careers/legacy- Woodson is the greatest college CB ever and Pace the greatest college OT ever.
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that's pretty god damn cool. two of the all-time great players in the history of football.
Both were very high NFL draft picks and NFL HoF'ers, but they weren't the best ever at their positions in the league. I think it's fair to say Deion Sanders is widely considered the NFL CB GOAT and Anthony Munoz the NFL OT GOAT. Having said that, I think if you are talking strictly college football careers/legacy- Woodson is the greatest college CB ever and Pace the greatest college OT ever.
Yeah, they were great players and it was an awesome opportunity to see them.
However, of all of the HS performances I ever saw, it was Tim Anderson at Clyde HS. They were playing Sandusky St. Marys and Anderson was playing DT. St Marys ran a sweep his way with a pulling lineman, the TE, a fullback and a tailback carrying the ball. Anderson tackled all of them to get the ball carrier. He was a beast.
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Does Celebrity Jeopardy count?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iOoWZnBRXmw?feature=share
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We had my FIL over last night for dinner and he was talking about a couple of the channels he really loves, one that I recall was "Professor of Rock", who basically has a show about rock music, interviewing rock stars, etc. And when I mentioned a guy that a coworker showed me, who is the same genre, named Rick Beato, he said "oh yeah I know him; we watch his stuff too."
Good Shows,the PoR fits perfectly in an imperfect kind of way. The type who would seam to land here
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If I do something, it'll be cooking-related. Granted that is a very crowded genre on YouTube, but the more that I think about it, I think I can offer a unique voice that I don't see anyone else doing right now.
If you'd stop gargling on IPAs perhaps
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I don't know if MaximumSam is old enough to remember, but there used to be a chain of record stores around Columbus called "Buzzards Nest Records" or something like that. The guy that started the store lived down the street from us. My sister would babysit for them once in a while. If it were later in the evening, I would go over with her and watch TV or something as she would be scared to be there by herself.
In the basement, he built or had someone build, a room that was lined wall to wall with albums and photos of famous artists that he had been either at his stores or at his home. (Once his stores started doing well, he bagan to sponsor/promote rock concerts in Columbus. And now and then, he would have the artist(s) come to his home either prior to or just after the show.)
Every now that then, we would see a limo parked in the Cul-de-sac where his home was and knew it was most likely a rock star or band. I do remember seeing Bob Seager on one occasion and Paul McCartney on another. I didn't get a chance to meet them, but we would ride our bikes in the road when the limo's would arrive so we could see who it was. It was exciting as a kid I guess.
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I too met Ditka. He was hammered.
So was Harry Caray.
Walter Payton was a pleasure.
Jim McMahon is a riot. Drunk as a skunk.
Lou Boudreaux was pretty cool.
Carlton Fisk was very stoic.
Pete Rose was an asshole.
I'll have to think about more. Definitely more Chicago Bears.
It was mostly when I was younger, so memory fades.
pete seems to always act like an asshole. he just can't help himself. i wonder if he'd be in the hof rn if he weren't a jerk.
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I'd think the same. Man, what a jag bag he is.
It was the year of his hitting streak and was in Chicago to play the Cubs, who did not have lights for night games in 1978. My dad worked at the tracks (this one was at Maywood Park just outside of Chicago) and I went with him to work that night.
Rose was there and I went up to him and asked him for an autograph.
He said, "Get the hell away from me kid!" I was 11 years old!
My Dad said, "I hope you go 0-4 tomorrow." He went 0-6. Asshole.
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most think Pete the cheat would be in the hall today if he had owned up to his sins and shown some remorse
I hope he never gets in