Not sure if this is of any interest but saw Peewee Smith mentioned a couple of pages ago. For those that don't know Peewee Smith now works for a temp agency in Calgary. I used to hire 6-7 guys a day at my company.
Someone let me know one day that Peewee Smith is the guy that drives them to their sites. We ended up meeting and he was so cool and down to earth. You'd have never known he was a star CFL player if you didn't know the name. Just completely happy and comfortable doing what he does. Once he found out I was a fan we'd chat often, which was a really neat experience. I had to retrain my brain from that fanboy "omg Peewee knows me and will talk to me again today" to "he's really chill and will be as into what's going on in my life as I am of his".
Just a totally humble, happy human being. A lot of former celebrities/athletes struggle with having to go to regular life and working after fame and end up bitter angry and in a bad way. While some of them just get life, and he gets life.
Running down a field in front of 35000k fans or driving a 2005 minivan full of temps to warehouses he's the same guy with the same laugh and demeanour.
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