Here's my Iggy story: I took my then five year old son to the Flames bowling event right after the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake. My parents had been at the Olympics and brought a team Canada hat back and were lucky enough to get Wayne Gretzky to autograph the hat. My little guy brought that hat to bowling and went up to Jarome to ask him to autograph it as well. Jarome took one look at the hat and said to me "I can't autograph that hat, Wayne Gretzky has signed that hat". The humility and respect that he showed was so different than what you get from almost any other pro athlete. I told Jarome that not only was he my son's favourite player, he also scored two goals in the gold medal game. He got a big sheepish smile on his face and signed the hat...on the very back as far away from Wayne's signature as possible. All class.
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