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  • Peyton and Me

    In honor of what will likely be Peyton Manning’s last game, here are a couple of pictures of me and Peyton from December 5, 1999 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, FL. He was very gracious and was happy to pose with me.

    This was back when I would wear the colors of whomever was playing the Dolphins (I was a Dolphins season ticket holder, if you can believe that). As I got older, that became tiresome and now I just wear my Jets gear no matter who the opponent is. I also have a Dan Marino picture from this day. Will post that another day.

     

     

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  • 2003 Florida Marlins Playoff Run – Pictures with Players

    Here are some pictures from the 2003 Marlins playoff run. The players would drive their own cars and we would stop them for pictures. Most were pretty gracious. And at Dolphins games, we would always see the home team players driving in.

     

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    Luis Castillo

     

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    A.J. Burnett



  • The Crystal Football

    I may never play football but I can say that I held the

    National Championship Trophy!

    Miami Gardens, Florida - December 6, 2000
    Miami Gardens, Florida – December 6, 2000

    This picture was taken on December 6, 2000 at the Feast on the Fifty, the pre-game kickoff party for the 2001 Orange Bowl, which was for the BCS National Championship before the current +1 format, where Oklahoma defeated FSU 13-2 on January 3, 2001 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.  As usual, I was one of the first to arrive. When I got to the field, I found the $30,000 Waterford Crystal AFCA National Championship Trophy (then known as the Sears Trophy) just sitting there unattended and convinced my friend to take this picture (we also got one of him holding it). Shortly after this picture was taken, one of the stadium attendants was posted by the trophy so everyone wouldn’t pick it up. Since then, I have never seen it left unattended. To find some other interesting reads, visit read this bike lifts storing bicycle review.

    The Feast on the Fifty was the predecessor to today’s kickoff party at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. It was much more fun since you got to be on the playing field – an opportunity that rarely presents itself. Since this was in the pre-9/11 days, security was pretty lax which allowed me to roam around the tunnels under the stadium. I went and visited the locker rooms, dugouts, etc. Nobody seemed to care. I miss those days.

    As the game was in Florida, almost everybody in attendance was following Bobby Bowden around and Bob Stoops was just hanging around with nothing to do. That gave me a great opportunity to talk to him at length about football and his time under Steve Spurrier at Florida. I blogged my experience and boost it with the tools from socialboosting.com to get more viewers and credibility to my platform,  I also was able to get this picture with him:

    Me and Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops - Miami Gardens, Florida - Dec. 6, 2000
    Me and Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops – Miami Gardens, Florida – Dec. 6, 2000