To start off, I met Emmitt's parents when I was stationed in Pensacola and they used to let me come over to their house and watch the games with them, (that was back in 91-92), then I met Emmitt a few times after that. I met Bob Hayes, Preston Pearson, Michael Irvin, Fred Strickland, Broderick Thomas, Darren Woodson, and a few others up at a show in Somerset, NJ back in 97, I met Antonio Anderson and tight ends coach Robert Ford at the Philadelphia game later that year, I met Drew Pearson, Mel Renfro, and Too Tall in Richmond, VA back in 99.
On a side note, in the summer of 89 or 90 I met Dan Marino at a Foot Locker in Jacksonville, and I asked him how he felt when Jim Jeffcoat sacked him I think it was just before halftime of their game and he said that he found out after the game that Jeffcoat had cracked his rib(s)... I told him that was too bad and he told me, "That's the way of the game, bro..."
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