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I Accidentally Met Someone Famous This Week

by , Posted to on 08/06/2010 8:29 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 12/17/2001
Location: ND
I was delivering furniture out in a small town near Minot on Monday.  As I walked into the house an older gentleman informed us that the little boy (his grandson) was getting a new bed and he was pretty excited.  We pumped up the little guy reving him up to see the final product once it was assembled...As I walked in and out of the house bringing in bed parts, I noticed the man sitting in the recliner in the livingroom.  He looked framiliar.  Not recent framiliar, but I knew I had seen him before.

I couple more times in and out of the house, and I stopped and told him that he looked framiliar...like I had seen him on television.  He said "I'll give you a few minutes to figure it out."  His name never came to me, but his face was unmistakably in my memory from somewhere.  His daughter came in and spilled the beans.    He came upstairs and told me about his career to try to jog my memory.  This man was a quarterback for several teams in the NFL, coached the Cincinatti Bengals and he and his team made it to the Super Bowl!  I watched that game! He also coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  He told me that he understood that I was probably more of a Vikings follower and that I probably wouldn't remember much of him. He asked me if I had ever "booed" him, and I said that I am not one to boo people.  I thought, "well how do I remember your face if I didn't watch you and your team frequently?"  I apologized for not being able to come up with his name, and asked if he would give me an autograph anyway. He said he would.

We finished the bed and prepared to leave. He grandson was all smiles.  I said it was nice to meet them all, and started to back out of the door knowing that I still did not have his autograph...he stopped me and asked if I still wanted the autograph, and I said grinning, "SURE DO!"  He signed his business card and handed it to me. I gave him one of mine in return,  I thanked him and we left.  Nice guy. Small world.

His name is Sam Wyche.


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Re: I Accidentally Met Someone Famous This Week
by on 08/06/2010 9:23 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 10/01/2002
Location: ND
you were in my home town of Velva then, I've met Sam several times...very nice guy...his son in law was quite the athlete as well...if i remember correctly he played at eastern carolina and his brother played at clemson....his brother would have taken dexter manleys job for the redskins in the time of his trouble but took the money to go play in canada......he visits his daughter very often and blends with the great people of Velva!
Re: I Accidentally Met Someone Famous This Week
by on 08/06/2010 9:36 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

Joined: 03/26/2008
Location: ND
skeeter79 Said:
you were in my home town of Velva then, I've met Sam several times...very nice guy...his son in law was quite the athlete as well...if i remember correctly he played at eastern carolina and his brother played at clemson....his brother would have taken dexter manleys job for the redskins in the time of his trouble but took the money to go play in canada......he visits his daughter very often and blends with the great people of Velva!
Skeeter is the 79 the year you graduated? I agree about the great people of Velva.
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Re: I Accidentally Met Someone Famous This Week
by on 08/06/2010 11:41 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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lol...no the 79 is the year i was born!
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by on 08/07/2010 11:50 AM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Is it the Bodine family?

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by on 08/07/2010 12:41 PM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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YUP
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by on 08/07/2010 1:23 PM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |

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Jethro?

It's not that bad.

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