when i was growing up my mother was engaged to the brother of bill harris former assistant coach at michigan. then his neice married corwin brown of the pats, jets and lions i got to go to some of the family functions with the players and had thanksgiving and christmas dinner at home a couple of times with corwin and desmond howard.

my mom's boss also works for the redwings and went to a couple bbqs at his house and a couple times a few wings players and coaches were there yzerman, bowman, and mccarty are the ones i really remember the most.

i ran into ice t when i was 10 or 11 at a hotel he was cool enough to sign a few autographs take a few pics and just take to us for about an hour or so.

and when i used to work at a machine shop our tool supplier was reggie mckenzie former guard of the bills and seahawks he used to take us to lunch once about once a month (it was a very small shop)