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Random: Found an NFL star in the middle of the road today

Mdube16Mdube16 Posts: 744 ✭✭
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So Im driving near my office today around noon and I see a fire engine red mid 70s convertable...top down and hood up broken down in the middle of the street. Admiring the car (love the old verts) I see the license plate is ROLLE21 and sure enough there is New York Giant and former Hurricanes all american Antrel Rolle. I pulled in front of him and did the guy thing of looking under the hood while he tried to start it. Seemed like the battery to me (and if it were anything else I would have been unable to help). I got some cables and we jumped it to get started. It was 98 today in Miami so it was brutally hot. He was taking the car to get some work done as he has to leave to go to work now and he hadnt done it in the 7 months he has had to take care of it. Anyway I got my baseball signed (always carry one and a pen just in case) and have a very random odd story to tell.

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  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    I take it he wasn't driving this car: image

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    Cool story!
  • CopperJJCopperJJ Posts: 587 ✭✭✭
    Clayton Kershaw - master set
    Signed Sets:
    2011 Topps Heritage BB
    1960s & 1970s Topps decade Cincinnati Reds
    2006-2016 A&G HOFers
  • CopperJJCopperJJ Posts: 587 ✭✭✭
    Rashard Jennings of the Jacksonville Jaguars passed me tonight. He most likely had been to the stadium. Nice pic.
    Clayton Kershaw - master set
    Signed Sets:
    2011 Topps Heritage BB
    1960s & 1970s Topps decade Cincinnati Reds
    2006-2016 A&G HOFers
  • OckhamsRazorOckhamsRazor Posts: 207 ✭✭
    I saw the title of this thread and thought it was going to be about Alonzo Spellman:
    Fire up the Wayback machine:

    March 17, 1998
    Alonzo Spellman's life took a bizarre turn last week. On Monday, the day he was to take a random steroids test, the Bears defensive end (left) barricaded himself inside a house. That caused a 10-hour standoff involving a SWAT team. (Spellman wasn't armed or anything, but other authorities were out dealing with snowstorm problems.) Ex-Bear Mike Singletary came and talked Spellman out of the house.

    Spellman was taken to a hospital and agreed to stay for 72 hours and take a steroids test. But last Tuesday morning, he walked out of the hospital and was found walking barefoot along the highway. He was talked into returning to the hospital.
    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all "right-thinking" people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

    This is known as “bad luck.”
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