re: What famous people have you ran in to at an airport? Which airport?

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OJ Simpson

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Strangely enough, I saw him in J. Alexanders in Baton Rouge when I worked there. I suggested that we give him plastic utensils for safety but the manager didn't think it was funny.

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Jay Thomas, nice guy, ran in to him a few years later at Jobe's Cafe down town Baton Rouge, and then again a few years after that in the bathroom at MSY, pretty sure he thinks I'm a creeper now 

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Oscar Robertson
Bob Huggins
Nolan Richardson
Chris Carter

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I know who he is, but I wouldn't recognize him.

Do you follow rodeo alot?

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Other than his name, I didn't know who he was until I got home and googled him. He was walking around the terminal wearing a sponsor shirt and had his hand rope with him, so it was obvious he was a bull rider.

I enjoy bull riding and watch when it's on, but don't follow closely.

Alan autry Shreveport airport

Charles Barkley sat across the aisle from me from ATL to PHL.

Spoke to Bernadette Peters in Reagan National Airport.



Sat across from Michael Bolton in first class from Seoul to Manila where he performed the next night.

He had just broken up with fiancée Nicollette Sheridan and he was reading a People magazine on the plane that had them pictured on the front cover.

I thought about trying to take a picture of him reading it and then sell it to People but..nah, not worth it.

I've waited 11 pages for my friend to post his story, but he hasn't. So frick him, I will.

Oct., '97: LSU beats #1 Florida in Tiger Stadium. Like every other fan, we go nuts and drink until the wee hours. My friend, Bob, had an early flight to ATL the "next" morning. We were only about 4 hours from departure...

I go home and sure as shite, the phone rings about 6:30. Of course, it's Bob. I figured that since he had to get up, he wanted to make sure my sleep didn't go uninterrupted. Not so fast, my friend. The conversation went about like this:

Me: Hello, Bob.
Bob: How'd you know it was me?
Me: Because it's 6:30 Sunday morning and you're an a-hole.
B: Guess where I'm at?
M: The airport, I hope.
B: Yeah, but WHERE at the airport?
M: How the frick would I know? I'm hanging up.
B: No, not yet! I'm in the Crown Room!
M: So what.
B: Guess who I'm with?
M: I have no idea. Goodbye!
B: LEE CORSO!!!
Now I'm awake, and he has my attention. Bob is a very personable and funny guy, but he loves to frick with people.
M: That's great! Are you fricking with him?
B: (laughter ... then I hear him speaking to someone else) My buddy wants to know if I'm fricking with you.
New, but familiar, voice: You can tell him, yes. (More laughter)

The call went on for a while, but you get the gist. Lee Corso was a really good sport and took a bunch of ribbing because he had picked Florida. They were both in First Class on the flight to ATL. Bob told Lee he was going to try to get his seat assignment changed so they could sit together. Lee told him that wouldn't be necessary because he was planning on sleeping during the flight.

I can't believe that was almost 20 years ago. I've got to get a few beers in Bob and get him to re-live the experience. It's hysterically funny to hear him tell the story and do his bad Corso imitation.

The One Armed Man from The Fugitive in London
Stiffler's Mom in Jamaica
John Ritter on a ski lift in Vail

Junior Seau at San Diego
Too many former Bama greats to list
Jason Alden, Nashville
Jake Peavy, Cleon Jones, Amos Otis, Hank Aaron at Mobile

Dad sat behind Gallagher on fight out of Atlanta