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Post your 15mins of fame here. Seriously!

So not really fame, but I host a couple of podcasts for the Sportsmen’s Empire Podcast Network.

How to Hunt Deer
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Don't wanna hurt the mood by going into too much detail, but I was mentioned briefly (but not by name) in local media after I found a missing person that had been tossed over a guard rail while unconscious. They were alive and made a full recovery. Many people had likely driven by....but I saw just their foot sticking up and pulled over to see what was going on.
 
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Well I looked for the picture but couldn't find it. So story only.

Back in middle/high school I wrestled, I was really into it but not so awesome at it. But there was a guy in my conference that was an incredible wrestler and we happened to be the same size from 8th grade on. He was like #3 in the nation or something at our weight.

Anyway there was a picture of me getting tossed like a little B in wrestling USA, a nation publication, by that dude. If I recall correctly I was about to get tech'd anyway so I took a sloppy, desperate shot which he very effectively countered lol :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy:

Good for a laugh hopefully!
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Definitely not a "fifteen minute of fame" moment but your story reminded me of a similar story. When I was in college I worked at a bar in Houghton, MI. One night there was a disruption (not an uncommon occurrence) and a few guys were squared off with each other. Our bouncers were outnumbered so a couple of us went over the bar to lend a hand. One of the combatants was a local guy who at that time a defensive lineman for NMU's football team (he later went on to play on a Grey Cup winning team in the CFL and played nose tackle for the Miami Dolphins for a few years). I ended up behind him and thought I'd put him in a full nelson to get him under control . . . . only one problem. I was six to eight inches short of being able to connect my hands behind his neck. My first thought was "Oops this might have been a mistake." :tearsofjoy: I was right . . . he threw my 200# across the bar like I was a raggedy Andy.


I've been lucky enough to have been on the ice and played hockey with both Mr. Gordy Howe and Mr. Alex Delvecchio though (both off whose numbers have been retired by the Detroit Red Wings). The Gordie Howe occurrence happened when I was playing beer league in Traverse City. We were in the dressing room suiting up for a game and the door opens and in walks Gordie Howe. He says something to the effect of "I'm sorry to bother you but the all star weekend is approaching and I've been asked to play in the old timers game. Would you guys mind if I suited up and skated with you? I need to get in some conditioning." The funny thing is he asked like he was posing some sort of imposition and fully expecting us to say no . . . like any one would have said no to skating with Gordie Howe. Just a super human being and man, he was in his 60s then and still could get up and down the ice with us 30 somethings.

I was lucky enough to get invited to play in a Red Wings fundraising Alumni game in Gaylord once and Alex Delvecchio was playing with the alumni. During the course of the game I was covering Mr. Delvecchio in front of our net when a pass came through. I went to lift his stick and wifted on it catching him right across the bridge of the nose and actually drew blood. I stopped, turned to him and said "Oh no, I'm so sorry! Are you alright Alex?" He looked at me, pointed into the corner where the puck had gone and growled "Go get the puck!" and proceeded to chase me into the corner. I may have the dubious distinction of drawing the last blood from Alex Delvecchio due to a high stick. He too would have been in his mid 60's then and could still play at that time.
 
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boyne bowhunter said:
Definitely not a "fifteen minute of fame" moment but your story reminded me of a similar story. When I was in college I worked at a bar in Houghton, MI. One night there was a disruption (not an uncommon occurrence) and a few guys were squared off with each other. Our bouncers were outnumbered so a couple of us went over the bar to lend a hand. One of the combatants was a local guy who at that time a defensive lineman for NMU's football team (he later went on to play on a Grey Cup winning team in the CFL and played nose tackle for the Miami Dolphins for a few years). I ended up behind him and thought I'd put him in a full nelson to get him under control . . . . only one problem. I was six to eight inches short of being able to connect my hands behind his neck. My first thought was "Oops this might have been a mistake." :tearsofjoy:

I was right . . . he threw my 200# across the bar like I was a raggedy Andy.


I've been on the ice and played Hockey with both Mr. Gordy Howe and Mr. Alex Delvecchio though (both off whose numbers have been retired by the Detroit Red Wings. The Gordie Howe occurrence happened when I was playing beer league in Traverse City. We were in the dressing room suiting up for a game and the door opens and in walks Gordie Howe. He says something to the effect of "I'm sorry to bother you but the all star weekend is approaching and I've been asked to play in the old timers game. Would you guys mind if I suited up and skated with you? I need to get in some conditioning." The funny thing is he asked like he was posing some sort of imposition and fully expecting us to say no . . . like any one would have said no to skating with Gordie Howe. Just a super human being and man, he was in his 60s then and still could get up and down the ice.

I was lucky enough to get invited to play in a Red Wings fundraising Alumni game in Gaylord once and Alex Delvecchio was playing with the alumni. During the course of the game I was covering Mr. Delvecchio in front of our net when a pass came through. I went to lift his stick and wifted on it catching him right across the bridge of the nose and actually drew blood. I stopped, turned to him and said "Oh no, I'm so sorry! Are you alright Alex?" He looked at me, pointed into the corner where the puck had gone and growled "Go get the puck!" and proceeded to chase me into the corner. I may have the dubious distinction of drawing the last blood from Alex Delvecchio due to a high stick. He too would have been in his mid 60's then and could still play at that time.
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I too have played with Mr. Hockey Gordie Howe at Howe Arena in Traverse City. Beer league also. He was in full Hartford Whalers gear. Super nice guy, except for in the corners. I played Jrs. the previous yr & he found out and laid me out pretty good. We had a good laugh over it and got his autograph for my 2 younger brothers afterwards. LEGEND.
 
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I too have played with Mr. Hockey Gordie Howe at Howe Arena in Traverse City. Beer league also. He was in full Hartford Whalers gear. Super nice guy, except for in the corners. I played Jrs. the previous yr & he found out and laid me out pretty good. We had a good laugh over it and got his autograph for my 2 younger brothers afterwards. LEGEND.
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What year was that? As I recall the year I played with him at Howe arena was 1993 (or maybe 1994). We may have shared the ice some if those were the time frames.

and yes, we all walked out of that locker room with signed pieces of gear. :tearsofjoy:
 
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In my position I’ve been in the local and regional papers and on the news and met some famous and semi famous people mostly politicians. Nothing too extraordinary though. Probably the coolest experience was in college, my buddy was the student social activity representative and he booked Eddy Money and the Ramones for our campus. I helped him with the contracts and got food trays for both. Those contracts are nuts talk about prima donnas!!! All of them are the same way too. My high school football coach played for the Saints, then Giants then the 49ers. And @boyne bowhunter, you’d appreciate this, one of my high school buddies was related to Jim Lorenz and at his high school graduation party we drank beers with Jim and hung out with him for a little while.
 
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Alabama Power isn't hoping it goes away. They're not stupid. They're banking on it not causing issues until after they're no longer liable, and/or their liability not exceeding the cost of proper disposal.

It's the type of cold-blooded, short-term-profit-focused, shareholder-trumps-stakeholder thinking that causes so many issues. Not, "I didn't think this would screw you," but, "I knew better than you how much it would screw you, but I made money."

Companies do it all the time in Alabama. An EPA fine or cleanup cost is just the cost of business to folks like Alabama Power and Tyson. Pay up, host a cleanup or plant a few trees for publicity, and then lobby to reduce regulations next time in the name of "combating big government."

We're way past the point in history where we "didn't know."
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Sounds really similar to what’s happening in New Palestine, OH. and everywhere else where a large corporate entity has molested the landscape and poisoned the natural resources.

I honestly can’t see a way out of this continuing to happen. So I continue to root for the asteroids.
 
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Alabama Power isn't hoping it goes away. They're not stupid. They're banking on it not causing issues until after they're no longer liable, and/or their liability not exceeding the cost of proper disposal.

It's the type of cold-blooded, short-term-profit-focused, shareholder-trumps-stakeholder thinking that causes so many issues. Not, "I didn't think this would screw you," but, "I knew better than you how much it would screw you, but I made money."

Companies do it all the time in Alabama. An EPA fine or cleanup cost is just the cost of business to folks like Alabama Power and Tyson. Pay up, host a cleanup or plant a few trees for publicity, and then lobby to reduce regulations next time in the name of "combating big government."

We're way past the point in history where we "didn't know."
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As an Ohioan, seems like the railroads would rather put money in the pockets of investors than take the time to keep the axles greased too.

Oops @JSEXTON23 just read your comment, yep.
 
While working on my multi engine rating, Hank Williams Jr. showed up at the airport (he married a girl from my home town) wanting to fly home to Troy Alabama and my instructor asked me to come along as copilot. So yep, got to fly Hank Jr. Home. 25 years later I commanded the Navy Boot Camp, trained over 80,000 Sailors for the Navy and hosted pretty much everyone from the Secretary of Defense on down, including ADM John Kirby who is now retired and is the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House. He’s now spending all his time talking to the media about Chinese Balloons. Ha ha. Better him than me!
 
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While working on my multi engine rating, Hank Williams Jr. showed up at the airport (he married a girl from my home town) wanting to fly home to Troy Alabama and my instructor asked me to come along as copilot. So yep, got to fly Hank Jr. Home. 25 years later I commanded the Navy Boot Camp, trained over 80,000 Sailors for the Navy and hosted pretty much everyone from the Secretary of Defense on down, including ADM John Kirby who is now retired and is the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the White House. He’s now spending all his time talking to the media about Chinese Balloons. Ha ha. Better him than me!
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Long time ago Hank 3 was at this punker party at my friend's house and his dad showed up to make him leave and stop hanging out with us degenerates .....I worked a 2nd job at an auto parts store in Nashville and he'd come in weekly to fill his leaking PS pump in his obs ford and we chat it up...he had a sweet Quigley 4x4 power stroke E350 with huge speaker system and we listen to gg allin in the parking lot loud.....hahahaha

I've met a bunch of the old pga tour pros and played a round with Paul azinger

Once my degenerates and I had a whole small music festival convinced we were the mighty mighty bosstones and drank up all the booze we could before getting figured out....

My oldest was in the paper when she caught the biggest fish in a youth tournament
 
boyne bowhunter said:
Definitely not a "fifteen minute of fame" moment but your story reminded me of a similar story. When I was in college I worked at a bar in Houghton, MI. One night there was a disruption (not an uncommon occurrence) and a few guys were squared off with each other. Our bouncers were outnumbered so a couple of us went over the bar to lend a hand. One of the combatants was a local guy who at that time a defensive lineman for NMU's football team (he later went on to play on a Grey Cup winning team in the CFL and played nose tackle for the Miami Dolphins for a few years). I ended up behind him and thought I'd put him in a full nelson to get him under control . . . . only one problem. I was six to eight inches short of being able to connect my hands behind his neck. My first thought was "Oops this might have been a mistake." :tearsofjoy: I was right . . . he threw my 200# across the bar like I was a raggedy Andy.


I've been lucky enough to have been on the ice and played hockey with both Mr. Gordy Howe and Mr. Alex Delvecchio though (both off whose numbers have been retired by the Detroit Red Wings). The Gordie Howe occurrence happened when I was playing beer league in Traverse City. We were in the dressing room suiting up for a game and the door opens and in walks Gordie Howe. He says something to the effect of "I'm sorry to bother you but the all star weekend is approaching and I've been asked to play in the old timers game. Would you guys mind if I suited up and skated with you? I need to get in some conditioning." The funny thing is he asked like he was posing some sort of imposition and fully expecting us to say no . . . like any one would have said no to skating with Gordie Howe. Just a super human being and man, he was in his 60s then and still could get up and down the ice with us 30 somethings.

I was lucky enough to get invited to play in a Red Wings fundraising Alumni game in Gaylord once and Alex Delvecchio was playing with the alumni. During the course of the game I was covering Mr. Delvecchio in front of our net when a pass came through. I went to lift his stick and wifted on it catching him right across the bridge of the nose and actually drew blood. I stopped, turned to him and said "Oh no, I'm so sorry! Are you alright Alex?" He looked at me, pointed into the corner where the puck had gone and growled "Go get the puck!" and proceeded to chase me into the corner. I may have the dubious distinction of drawing the last blood from Alex Delvecchio due to a high stick. He too would have been in his mid 60's then and could still play at that time.
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My buddy played football at Michigan tech. Chuck was one of his coaches and his nephew was on the team as well, who I know. I've heard many Chuck stories, but never actually met the guy. I heard he got fired from his coaching position for "being too physical with the players". I'd say you got lucky that you only got thrown across the bar.

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What year was that? As I recall the year I played with him at Howe arena was 1993 (or maybe 1994). We may have shared the ice some if those were the time frames.

and yes, we all walked out of that locker room with signed pieces of gear. :tearsofjoy:
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It wouldve been one of those 2 yrs for sure. I believe he played on Mike Antons team. Local business owner. I played for either Papa Romanos or the drunk team Cadillac Malleable Iron. I also believe Mark Howe ran the Gaylord Grizzlies then or shortly after.
 
This is a funny story and I was so proud of myself....In the heat of the moment I always draw a blank but later I always come up with the good response/comeback/one liner but this time I was on my toes and it was classic.....

Myself and a small crew of guys drive up to Valdosta ga for a week or 2 working. The hotel had a bar and in a couple days we were well liked by the bartender and waite staff. The first Friday we were there after work we went out drinking....we ended up at this boobie bar. This little bearded guy kept coming over to us at the bar trying to talk with us...he asked me if I had weed for sale and I was like "yeah sure dude" super sarcastically and then we ignored him the rest of the time and basically told him he's cruising for a knuckle sandwich if he doesn't leave us alone.....fast forward to the bar at the hotel later that night and this big swat force of cops show up and that little beardo jerky is there getting in everybody's face. I'm cuffed standing there with beardo being very not nice with a smug smile on his face and he says I'm gonna impound my truck and trailer and find all the drugs and I confidently and with volume said "ur a daisy if u do" and some of the cops and all the bar girls watching all bust out laughing. They were so mad that they didn't find anything and had to let up go.... The veins in the little guys forehead were bulging and he was so red in the face with fury and I was cool calm doc Holliday in his home town
 
I can’t find the pics except the one citation. I’d be looking through pics for hours. Lol!
I have delivered 4 babies, received 3 Life saving awards, 1 award for bravery during a flash flood rescue, and 2 unit citations for rescue of victims during house fires. But of all those, the thing I treasure most, is my kids letter which said “ I was the best dad anyone could ever have!” That means more to me than anything!!!FC32E916-9181-4AA7-A6F7-522626E1D657.png
 
If we are just talking about causal playing against guys that went on to be professional athletes my list is very long from guys from University of Florida that went on to play in NBA NFL and MLB. Some were friends at the time. Even dunked on Fred Weary (nothing special since he was shorter but he did play in the NFL). Tried to dunk on Jevon Kearse but that one didn't turn out so well but I can say I slapped him in the face and lived to tell the story (swiping at basketball and missed and caught his face instead).
 
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