re: What's the best autograph you've ever gotten?

Bear Bryant. Several players from Bama's 1979 and 1980 team. The strong safety those years (Ricky Tucker) lived behind us and when he would come to town he would call me and get me to meet some of the players that came home with him. The one I remember the most was EJ Junior. He was huge.

I have several golfers. The best one is Payne Stewart (also have a golf ball he gave me). I got it several years before he won his first major. He was a class act.

The last one I got was several years ago I met Lou Holtz at an event. He was very gracious. I actually asked him for an autograph for my dad. He wrote a really nice not on it to my dad.

I find that creepy too, FWIW. I wouldn't fight a kid for one, but if you have a sports room or something in your house, they memorabilia is pretty cool.

Jeff Reboulet

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grown man fighting with a little kid for position

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I never fought for position. I got mine by being introduced or just random meeting them.

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ere you drunk? I only ask because you were at a concert

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no, i was backstage, and there were only about 10 other people back there, so i just talked to tebow and sammy hagar for a while

I got Tom Glavine.. Sent his rookie card to him when he was with the braves.. saying i was a 7 yr old kid who loved himed and he signed it and sent it back..
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have Ryan Klesko.. got it in a pack of cards..

A polaroid of me and Jerry Lawler from like 14 years ago, he autographed the bottom of it. I win!

But really, I've got an Ali autograph on a boxing glove. Dad works at a hospital and told me he was coming by the next day. Went to the store that night and bought some gloves, gave him one for Ali to sign. He came home with the autograph and a picture of him signing it.

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I got Dick Vitale to sign an LSU basketball shirt, guess that about makes it worthless these days...but anyway what y'all got?

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In person: Walter "Sweetness" Payton. He was sitting on the bench next to Jack Crowe (no idea why Jack Crowe was sitting on the UNLV bench during warmups, but he was) before UNLV played the Hogs in Barnhill Arena in 1991. I went and got his autograph.

Bill Clinton: Once at a book signing, and another time at a private function

Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw: While at a Champions Tour event pro-am in Tampa

NFL Hall of Famer Bob Lilly

Bobby MF Petrino

NOT in Person: All of the 1995 Dallas Cowboys - Too Tall, Tony Dorsett, Everson Walls, Danny White, Randy White, Mark Tuinei, etc. They sent me the ball after I broke my neck playing 9th grade football and my cousin sent them a newspaper clipping of the accident.

Chipper Jones, Domonique Wilkins, Calvin Johnson

My oldest son got Mark McGwire's, my middle son go Greg Biggio's. Both in 1998 when the Cardinals played the Astros in Houston.

I got Willie Brown's at the Hall of Fame golf scramble in Natchitoches, LA in 1985.