That's awesome! I'd love to see Jennings other than behind my TV screen.
I met Bart Starr and Gale Sayers during week 2 of the '04 season a few years back when we lost to the Bears. They unvieled a statue of Bart Starr and I was able to shake his hand and get two autographs on two packer hats, he was a nice guy, actually started conversation with me cause I was too star struck. Defintely a moment I will never forget, at the game during pregame warmups, I yelled out to Al Harris and he snapped his fingers and pointed at me with a wink. Best Weekend Ever!
"Cheesey" wrote:
Starr is a REALLY nice guy.
I worked security at the Vince Lombardi golf tourny one year back in the 1980s, and one of my duties was to drive a golf cart around the parking lot to make sure no one messed with any of the cars there. Of course there were MANY expensive cars in the lot. Towards the end of the day, I saw a guy walking in front of me wearing a green sports jacket. I thought to myself "From the back, that looks like it could be Bart Starr." Sure enough, it WAS him! He motioned me to stop my cart. I jumped off, and said "Yes Mr. Starr?" He stuck out his hand, and said "I just want to thank you for the great job you are doing. It's people like you that make it possible for us to hold this tournament." I'm shaking his hand, and thinking "Bart Starr is thanking ME!?!?" I about died!!! All i had on me was my notebook to write in in case i needed to take down any info, but i asked him "Mr. Starr, could i please have youe autograph?" He said "Certainly!" And signed a page in my notebook, "Alan, Best wishes, Bart Starr". It's only on a piece of paper, but i still have it and it's one of my most prized autographs!
Oh....and Bart just had his 75th birthday a few days ago. I hope he's around for MANY more!!!
A couple years ago i wrote a fan letter to him, retelling the story i just wrote here, and what it meant to me. I enclosed a football card of him and asked him if he could sign it for me, and 2 weeks later i got it back in the mail personalized to me.
"JNelson87" wrote: