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In reply to the discussion: Ok.....what's your claim to fame with a sports figure?? [View all]Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)17. Um, does it count that Joe Namath tried to pick me up at the airport...
while I was waiting for my big brother to meet my flight-or is that way too common an occurrence .
If so, how about André Agassi helping me pick out a tee-shirt for my then 4 year old daughter from the Sonesta Beach Resort gift shop during the 1990 Key Biscayne (then the Lipton International) tournament?
(My family crossed paths with Agassi for several years while we followed the non-Grand Slam tennis circuit and he was always a complete and total gentleman and very kind to my young son and daughter)
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