Obscure celebrity stories

[GAME05]

I once worked at the Subway right near Camp Randall. Aaron Gibson came in a lot to get his double-meat BMT (why do I remember that?). His Escalade was the nicest ride parked in the dorm lot. Dude was obviously big, but he was a couple inches shorter than he was listed with the Badgers. I may have met other football players, but I wouldn't have recognized them.

 

Most kids in my middle school would shoot rockets at Senator Feingold's house during science class. His house was right next door, and I was in school there during his first campaign when he wrote all his campaign promises on his garage door.

[panthernick]

And I just read on his wikipedia that he is homosexual. My face is red for my previous post.

[TooLiveBrew]

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I saw Bill Schroeder at Target

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and that's why you run this site. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/glasses.gif

[Brian the Automator]

[ and that's why you run this site. ]

 

That's right, all of us elite celebrities shop at Target.

[Mr QL]

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Met Jenna Jameson on Spring Break in 2001 in Panama City. Have the treasured pictures to prove it. Same trip was sitting in our ajoining room watching baseball tonight when I heard my buddies getting all excited. (I was with 8 guys.) Walk out there and WCW wrestler Chris Canyon is doing a beerbong. Awesome guy, stayed all night with us drinking (not a girl in the room) and came back the next night. It was actually pretty cool that he wanted to hang out with us, not the girls with us.

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Yea, he came out.

 

edit: seems you already found that out haha

[funkyplaidcoat]

In order of decreasing obscurity:

 

I moved into an apartment that was occupied by the guy who played Rudy's older brother (Scott Benjaminson) in Rudy , among other roles. He had a Rudy poster in his second bedroom. He tends bar in my neighborhood and we still chat whenever i drop by. We always talk about my upstairs neighbors' sex habits. My respect for him dropped after I saw his one line in Mr. 3000.

 

I saw Greg Foster at the KMart in Brookfield during the '01-'02 season. He was buried so deep down the bench at that point (i.e. that season's JR Reid), he probably didn't want anybody to notice him. I did. All I could do was nod.

 

At UW, I sat next to "touchdown" Tony Simmons during the first Calculus (second semester calc.) lecture of the year. After the lecture, he immediately turned to me and said he was going to drop the class because it was too much for his brain. I nodded and went about my business. He didn't really need the class (or the degree).

 

I met Sammy Hagar at a meet-and-greet during his solo tour (right after he quit Van Halen the first time). He was wearing the same shirt he wore on the Daily Show a few weeks prior to that. Nice guy, seemed genuinely happy to see people under 30 backstage.

 

Finally....

 

I was working the snack shed at a Brookfield country club when Al McGuire (RIP) lectured me on how to pour a beer from a tap. I was a little salty about it since I just finished my freshman year in college (obviously I knew the mechanics of beer and tappers) and the tap was spewing out foam all day.

[Principessa21]

In high school, I used to work at a diner. I've waited on/ seen Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, and Steve Van Zandt more than once. Jon and Steve are great, but Bruce was cheap. Anyway, it was close to the Arts Center, so I used to wait on musicians sometimes. One night Creed came in, and something happened at the show that they were all upset, and the lead singer (my obscure celeb) asked me to tell other patrons to not bother him. I laughed in his face and asked 'who the @#%$ are you?'

 

I also once drove by Paul Shaffer's (the guy from Letterman) house and he was in his robe picking up his paper at the end of the driveway. I beeped at him.

[gypcasino]

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One night Creed came in, and something happened at the show that they were all upset, and the lead singer (my obscure celeb) asked me to tell other patrons to not bother him.

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Which naturally brings us to this oldie but goodie-

Scott Stapp Story

[splitterpfj]

Ted Nugent called my house.

 

It was work related, at first I thought it was a prank, but it was Uncle Ted. We talked for 20-30 minutes, then his call waiting beeped, he came back on to tell me it was Sammy Hagar, and he had to go.

[cweber39]

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And I just read on his wikipedia that he is homosexual. My face is red for my previous post.

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panthernick, too nieve to pick up the hint he wanted to take you out for a drink??

[RockCoCougars]

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Walk out there and WCW wrestler Chris Canyon is doing a beerbong. Awesome guy, stayed all night with us drinking (not a girl in the room) and came back the next night. It was actually pretty cool that he wanted to hang out with us, not the girls with us.

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This may be the funniest post that I've ever seen on here. I was just going to post a response to the effect that "you don't listen to the Stern show, do you?

[panthernick]

Yeah. I couldn't have worded that any worse. Glad i went to his wikipedia immediately after I found out my error. For the humor of the board I have decided not to edit my previous post. I have a picture of him and I at home. I think its time to burn it.

[Point Beer Is Best]

I once saw Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation) who was in town for a Sci-Fi convention. I thought the camera was supposed to add 15 pounds - that man must have worn a girdle on the set.

 

Ahman Green was a frequent visitor to the Walgreen's in Shawano when I worked there. He had a house on the lake.

 

Dave Krieg was born in my hometown (Iola) and his father was a local artificial inseminator.

 

Most obscure - the actor who played one of the "Daryl's" on the Newhart Show was from Scandinavia (the next town over) and was a frequent dinner guest at a friend's house.

[dadofandrew]

I actually forgot then AG Doyle spoke to my poli sci class at UWEC.

[Houlie24x]

I met Dustin Diamond about 6 years ago at a High School football game and he was a complete jerk. He got really mad that I called him Screech. I wasn't rude about it either, and I was real surprised to see him there. I don't know what he expected going to a football game surrounded by a bunch of High Schoolers.

[Crazyk1294]

It was Chris Farley.

 

Holy hell, how did I forget this! I was at a Marquette game in 1992ish and Chris Farley was in the front row (a few rows ahead of me). He was dressed up a Matt Foley watching the game. Surreal...