Who's the coolest that you met??

[rypper11]

When Jay Schroeder was third string (or maybe 4th, I was 10 or 11) he was jogging by my school one Saturday while a group of us were playing football. He asked if he could QB for us and none of us realized who it was. Until he told a friend of mine to "go deep". Deep for a 10 year old is much different than for a budding NFL QB. I don't know how far he threw it but it seemed like a mile to us. I know Schroeder got a bad rep here but it was so cool having him throw it around with a bunch of kids. I still didn't believe him when he said that he'd be playing for the Skins(most of us had Skins shirts on). But later I saw him on TV and recognized him. It's the only time I got bruises from just catching balls.
Second coolest:
I was in a bar in Centreville at 11 am one Tuesday in December right after I turned 21. My buddies and I were drinking and arguing football. In my altered state of mind I was arguing that Riggo was better than any back in the league at the time (1995). John Riggins overheard us and told my friends that he agreed with me and bought me a beer. Then he shot the breeze with us for a little bit until the guy he was waiting for got there and the two went into the restaurant area.
Funniest:
Georgetown Leather in the mid-80's. My father (not a football fan) bumped into a rather large man and dropped his bag. The man apologized even though it was my father's fault and picked up the bag for him. My father was pretty rude to him and once outside I told him, "Dad, that was Dexter Manley."
"The guy who knocked out the Cowboys QB? Damn, probably should've been nicer, huh?"

[SkinEmAll]

Ken Harvey was very cool to talk too, super nice guy. Gary Clark and Ricky Sanders were fun. Brian Mitchell was hilarous. Darrell Green was nice. As a matter of fact all of them were nice. Patrick Ramsey, Fred Smoot, Chris Cooley, Randy Thomas, Joe Gibbs, Chris Samuels, Ray Brown, Mark Mosley, Don Warren, Pat Fischer was awesome, I know Im missing a few, but Id have to say the coolest was Portis. I was leaving training camp last year and stopped to get gas at a place not far from camp. I walk in and theirs Portis in the candy isle with a pack of twinkies in one hand and a box of condoms in the other! It was a funny sight. We started talking while in line and all the way out to his truck, just a super cool guy. I ask him to autograph my hat, he says sure, as hes getting in his truck so I hand him the hat and look in the passenger side and their is Santana Moss. He was pretty quite, but nice. Met Portis their after another practice, chatted again and he took a great pic with my son. I used to see Bruce Smith out at alot of bars down in Va Bch before he was a Redskin, by most accounts a real prick. Oh yeah, Ladell Betts and Mike Sellers were awesome as well. Sellers is a big dude! His chest is as big from front to back as it is from side to side, seriously!

[Redskin Rich]

Originally Posted by rypper11

When Jay Schroeder was third string (or maybe 4th, I was 10 or 11) he was jogging by my school one Saturday while a group of us were playing football. He asked if he could QB for us and none of us realized who it was. Until he told a friend of mine to "go deep". Deep for a 10 year old is much different than for a budding NFL QB. I don't know how far he threw it but it seemed like a mile to us. I know Schroeder got a bad rep here but it was so cool having him throw it around with a bunch of kids. I still didn't believe him when he said that he'd be playing for the Skins(most of us had Skins shirts on). But later I saw him on TV and recognized him. It's the only time I got bruises from just catching balls.
Second coolest:
I was in a bar in Centreville at 11 am one Tuesday in December right after I turned 21. My buddies and I were drinking and arguing football. In my altered state of mind I was arguing that Riggo was better than any back in the league at the time (1995). John Riggins overheard us and told my friends that he agreed with me and bought me a beer. Then he shot the breeze with us for a little bit until the guy he was waiting for got there and the two went into the restaurant area.
Funniest:
Georgetown Leather in the mid-80's. My father (not a football fan) bumped into a rather large man and dropped his bag. The man apologized even though it was my father's fault and picked up the bag for him. My father was pretty rude to him and once outside I told him, "Dad, that was Dexter Manley."
"The guy who knocked out the Cowboys QB? Damn, probably should've been nicer, huh?"

See.. so far ya have to give it to the story about Jay. Tough to out cool an NFL QB (OK, let's not get into that topic any further)... who took the time to play ball with neighborhood kids.