Humorous brushes with fame...

[Hawkness Monster]

I got hammered all weekend with Ron White. He smoked weed (or tried to) in my car.

 

[Lone Clone]

OK, this thread is for amusing stories involving you or someone you know interacting with a celebrity.

When I was a kid growing up in Madison in the 80s, my folks took me over to Milwaukee pretty frequently in the summer to see the Brewers play at County Stadium. Back in the day, you could hang out around the player's parking lot outside the stadium to try and get autographs.

I was there with my folks behind me some distance one time, when Paul Molitor came ROARING up the ramp and out the gate at about 45 mph in his bright yellow Corvette, almost running me (and a couple other kids) over. I'll never forget the intense embarrassment I felt when my mom FLIPPED HIM THE DOUBLE BIRDS and called him a "f----ing a---hole".

To this day, my mom hates Paul Molitor for almost wiping out her precious snowflake.

I was pressed against Phoebe Cates in a shuttle bus for 15 minutes in the San Juan airport. She was about 9 months pregnant. Her husband (Kevin Kline) was several feet away with their young son. As we were walking up the steps, I was behind them, and the boy stumbled and fell back a bit. I caught him. Kline said "thank you."

I expected to get a generous check in the mail or something, but that was the end of the story.

 

[2bagger22]

For 11 years my dad, brothers, and I traveled to MLB stadiums each summer, culminating in seeing each team's stadium when we ended at Fenway. Anyway my youngest brother was on his first trip with us (about 8 years old at the time) and he's in the lobby of our Atlanta hotel. The woman at the front desk gives little brother a Braves hat and suggest he ask the gentleman across the lobby for an autograph -- he doesn't because he's too shy. He comes up to our room and we ask him where he got the hat. He then says, "Yeah, there was some Aaron guy in the lobby but I was scared to get his autograph." That "Aaron guy" was Hank Aaron.

 

[CeMar_Clone]

I was pressed against Phoebe Cates in a shuttle bus for 15 minutes in the San Juan airport. She was about 9 months pregnant. Her husband (Kevin Kline) was several feet away with their young son. As we were walking up the steps, I was behind them, and the boy stumbled and fell back a bit. I caught him. Kline said "thank you."

I expected to get a generous check in the mail or something, but that was the end of the story.

You lucky dog. One of the sexiest actresses of her time. And for a woman in her 50's, still easy on the eyes.

 

[at4iowa]

I head butted Grant Hill at the Sports Column in Iowa City. Does that count as a funny run in with a celebrity?

 

[SailorJerryHawk]

Ed O'Neil from Married With Children bought my ex wife and I a beer.

 

[Lone Clone]

You lucky dog. One of the sexiest actresses of her time. And for a woman in her 50's, still easy on the eyes.

This was probably 20 years ago. She had a great smile.

 

[hoks2415]

I have a few. I once interviewed Tony Dorsett while he was naked. That was...intimidating.

I was pretty excited to see Tommy Morrison at a mall in Biloxi,Ms during his heyday. Apparently too excited as I may have approached him too quickly (I had had a few drinks) and his "security" grabbed me. Close to getting my ass kicked. He autographed a pic for me.

Garth Brooks let me wear his hat and later sat on my head.

That's it for now.

I would let Garth Brooks sit on my face too.

 

[hansenhawk]

When I was about 10 or 11, I went to a Hawkeye basketball game. My hero at that time, Dick Vitale, was going to be doing the game.

I got there plenty early, and went up to him to get the autograph.

He swore at me, saying he doesn't have time to sign effing autographs, and was just treating everyone around him like a real jerk.

That is when i realized that the happy go lucky persona of Dick Vitale was not reality.

Hated him every since.

 

[lucas80]

This was probably 20 years ago. She had a great smile.

She also had two of the greatest boobs ever seen in a movie, but, sure, fixate on her smile.

 

[bagdropper]

He should have kicked my ass on principle. Not because the question was insulting, but because it was lame and unoriginal.

So...Macho Man...how does Miss Elizabeth really taste? Is it truly as glorious as she looks?

 

[Huey Grey]

He's a pretty low-grade celebrity, but I once saw KCRG's John Campbell in the tunnel area bathroom of Carver during a basketball game. He was at one of the urinals about to take a piss. I took the urinal to his right. He promptly zipped up and peed in one of the stalls instead.

 

[ICWestfan]

1985 my brother and I went on a bus trip to County Satdium to see the Brewers and Royals play. We basically drank the whole way up and decided to head in to see the Royals take BP. If you're familiar with County Stadium they had a 3 foot brick wall behind home plate. We were sitting there watching and this kid had a ball and was asking for autographs, which none of the Royals would acknowledge. Being hammered, we decided we'd get the kid an autograph, so we jumped the wall and walked up to Hal McRae and asked him for his autograph. Now, remember when McRae was manager and went completely basllistic? Thats what he did to us, telling us to get the f*** off the field before he beat out motherf***ing a**es until we s*** out our mouth's. Perplexed, and wearing our Iowa T-shirts (a faux pas, I know), we walked up to Jim Sundberg (former Hawkeye) and asked him for an autograph. He was laughing his ass off and told us after signing that we should "best find your seats". We almost got arrested for that stunt, but that kid was smiling when we handed him his ball.