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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Curt Warner was a stud. Had he not blown out that knee he could've been one of the all time greats. Pretty sure he's a prominent car dealership owner in the Seattle area.
Glad to hear Elway was nice to you. I've always wondered what kind of guy he was toward the fans. Haven't heard much either way.
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Nothing wrong with Warner, but like missing out on Bledsoe (Seattle beat NE during the season thus "won" the tiebreaker as they both had horrid 3-13 (I think) records)and taking Mirer, missing out of Elway, or Dickerson, would've made that team a lot better.
Was playing with our little girl in the pool and had to do a double and triple take that it was him. He was just reading the paper with the wife not more then 10 feet away, and just didn't notice him for the previous 5 minutes I was already there.
Pretty quiet at that pool, and at the resort in general, high end resort (long story how/why we were staying there) and after about 10 minutes, got out of the pool and just said "hello Mr. Elway, don't want to bother you while on vacation but congrats on a good season" type stuff, and he was engaging, saying yeah, tough to not go any further. I said, yeah, got a buddy who'd love to talk your ear off about the Broncos, but I'm a Seahawks fan and know how that feels to lose somewhat unexpectedly. He said yeah, Wilson looks to be the real deal and will be a good guy from here on in. Thanked him for his time and moved on.
Bigger guy, sounds like he smokes a fair number of cigs or got hit in the throat. Saw the odd kid go up to him after that for a picture or autograph, but he didn't get hounded at that place as he would've at a lot of places, which is why he's there at that place.
As said, the next night him, Fox and Del Rio with their wives were eating in the restaurant, right at the front, I assume because it meant that the front of the house staff and hostesses could make sure they weren't interrupted by fans (harder to control if they are in the back)...as we walked past, a group of guys walking out tried to take pictures, and the hostess told them to delete the picture. I snapped a shot while waiting to be seated, after seeing this, so pretended to snap a pic of the family in the lower corner, but got a pic of all of them eating instead.