about “the times we met a warrior.”

about 3 months ago right after the season ended, i was taking the red-eye to acapulco for a bachelor’s party. we flew from SFO and had to land in houston first. just let it be known that by the time we got into houston at 6:30AM, we were drunk of our asses. walking to our next gate we stopped at the food court to get some grub. so i was waiting there and10 ft away from me this guy holding a McDonalds bag looked exactly like monta ellis. i was like…”damn, either i am drunk or that dude looks just like monta ellis.” i kept staring at him and u can tell he was occasionally staring back thinking like…um yeah, i am monta. anyways after like 2 minutes of staring, his friends showed up and he got up and and started walking, and lo and behold, there was the “warriors” logo on his warm suit. had i not been drunk i would have caught that right away.

i am the type of guy that likes to give these guys their space, so i told my cousin. he ran over there, spoke to monta, and got a pic. i asked what u talk to him bout? his response was classic.

Cousin: Monta can I get a pic with u?

Monta: Yeah

cousin: Monta, so u headed home….back to missouri huh?

Monta: yeah, Mississipi.

Cousin: Oh…yeah Mississipi.

LOL…..what and idiot, but who cares, he got a picture!!! and Monta eats Mcdonalds!!!!

Right before we hired dickhead Dennis Erickson (after firing Mooch), my wife and I ate at Nicolino’s in Santa Clara… Low and behold, the table right next to us was John York, Terry Donahue, and the Defensive Coordinator from the Bears (Greg Blatche). Blatche was interviewing for the Head Coach position at the time. I’m a HUGE Niner fan, so I don’t think I heard a word my wife said all night. I was concentrating so hard on everything they were talking about!! LOL!!

The next day, Jeff Garcia RIPPED the management, he had a funny quote like: “What’s our plan? I mean, we’re interviewing this guy Blatche… I mean, I don’t even know who he is??”

nice man nice

I saw Chris Gatling running around Lake Merritt once. I also saw Adonal Foyle reading a book at a Colonials donut shop in the Oakland Lake shore area. Three weeks ago in Vegas, I met O.J. Mayo at the Bellagio hotel and casino. He was there for the Summer league games. My friend and I saw him and then yelled out his name. We shook his hand and wished him luck for the coming season. The next day we went to the summer league game at the Thomas Mack center to watch the Warriros play the Mavericks. We stayed around to watch O.J. and the Griz play the Lakers. Four years ago I met Tony Paker at the Venetetian hotel. I even took a picture with him. Unfortunately, Parker was not with Eva Longaria at the time. He was with this other white chick.

I have a friend who happens to be a Oakland Police officer. He pulled Andris Biedrins over for going over 100mph on the 880 freeway. He let Andris go though.
He also pulled over Oakland Raiders safety Gibril Wilson for making an illegal turn.

I ran into Felix Rodriguez back in 2002 at the Sports Authority in Foster City. I was pretty sure it was him at first, but wasn’t sure until I saw that his daughter had on a Rodriguez shirt. He was looking at the yellow tagged clearance shoes by the way. I said what’s up and shook his hand. A few days later, he left to go to Anaheim to play in Game 6 & 7 of the World Series.

I met Joe Morgan in the Pleasant Hill Best Buy.

He had 4 or 5 movies in his hand, and I was behind him in line. I said hi, shook his hand, told him I was a fan and whatever. He was just about to pay for his DVDs when some Best Buy employee walked up to him and said “Hey! I know you! You’re Chili Davis!” Joe said “No, no I’m not”. Then Joe turned around, looked at me, smiled and shook his head. We both started to laugh.

Nice guy.

Robb Nen out side of Huf…Roger Craig in middle school when we played his son in flag football(we won)...Orel Herscheser in a hotel…Jerry Rice in a hotel….Orlando Cepeda eats at my parents restaurant in Russian hill…Larry Baer’s been there a couple times…oh so has Rob Schnieder and Brian Boitano…Met Steve Young at a Toyota dealership…a family friend bought one of his old Land Cruisers which he signed the head board of…i got to drive it around a few times

My uncle, who lives in Michigan, is nextdoor neighbors with Tayshaun Prince. Got to have a pretty good talk with him last time I was out there. Definitely a down to earth guy.

i was in a hotel in anaheim. we just got in and i wanted to go walk around but none of my friends wanted to go with me ( we just drove 6 hours to get down there and they wanted to rest in the room) on my way back up i hold the elevator for this big dude i see walking up. he looks at me, says thanks then i just yell out, “holy crap your steve mcnair” i hella wanted to take a picture with him but i didnt have a camera. i wished him a good season but he ended up losing his job later that year. and when i got back in the room i was jumping around hella excited telling everyone who i just saw, half of them didnt know who he was and the other half didnt believe me.
i was also walking around oakland and i saw J-Rich getting a haircut, i waved to him then waved back.

I saw Nellie in Tiburon, driving a Jaguar. He was fat.

Surprisingly, he was wearing a collar shirt.

Adoynal Foyle in the restoration hardware bathroom in Stanford Mall…walked in and huge mofo standing there, kinda akward..but nice guy…Played basketball with T.O. at EA building in redwood shores…these guys are pretty kool as long as you don’t act all crazy

I saw JRich at Valley Fair mall and Lebron at Niketown SF.

I met Adonle Foyle a couple years back in Golden Gate Park. Also, Steve Young at a gas station in the middle of nowhere while me and my friends were headed to Vegas. Saw the Rock in a hotel in Hawaii. Saw Harold from Harold and Kumar walking around the Haight, and that gay guy from Mythbusters at Costco in San Francisco

I met Latrell Sprewell when I worked for a high end car dealership in San Mateo back in 1998 I believe. He had brought in his Lamborghini for service and while he was waiting for his ride I went up to him and said hello and shook his hand. Pretty cool dude, down to earth. This was after he was suspended for choking PJ Carlesimo, so I guess he had plenty of time to do things, like get his car serviced and custom-painted and get new rims. Also met Brian Grant, Terrell Owens, Merton Hanks, Derrick Deese, Kevin Grogan, and maybe some other local sports athletes while working there. I also met Antawn Jamison once at a club called 330 Ritch in SF. Also another cool down to earth dude.