Whose the most impressive person you've ever met?

Joey Mullen. When I was 14 I was playing in a hockey tournament in Pittsburgh that he was attending. The Pens had won the Stanley cup the previous season so him and 2 others being there was a big deal to a lot of the kids. He sat down next to my father during our second game and they where talking throughout our whole game. When i walked over and realized who he had been talking to I couldn't believe it. As I walked over my dad is like this is Joe, he's here to help some kids in the tournament. I just laughed and went, dad you have no idea who Joey is do you, he looked at me with this super confused look on his face. I was like that's Joey Mullen dad, from the Pens. He just laughed and went oh, I had no idea.
We sat their for a little bit discussing things I could do a little better and ways to open the ice up for the team. It was pretty surreal to me. He had left to go wherever, As I was walking out of the locker room he was standing there at the ice. He said hello and would like to talk to the team before we played our next game. My coach having no idea what was going on was like sure. So we all walked back in the locker room and listened to Joey Mullen talk to the team. He watched the whole game from beside the benches and kept giving us pointers.
We ended up 2nd in that tournament, our highest ever for our travel team. I still think about that today, 26 years later. It left an amazing impression on me.

 

I got to meet this old guy on the right. I hear he was a pretty good motorcycle rider at one time.

 

Captain Haynes passed away over the weekend. RIP.

 

Nice titties on the girl in the back, just sayin...

 

He was THE MAN when I was growing up reading DirtWheels.

 

Met him at the ATV Nationals at Birch Creek in Danville, Va.

My racing friend dragged me over to his pit area. Gary Denton signed my shirt.

I never said a word. I was just in shock that I was standing in front of Gary Denton.

 

I ran into a guy from a band i like while we crossed paths in the airport.

Stopped to tell him i didn’t want to make him late, but i’m A big fan and wanted to tell him so.

He asked if i wanted a picture. I said, “you don’t think your friends will believe you met a fan?” Smiled, and told him to have a safe flight.

I’m not sure Scott is that “impressive,” but i like to think that he remembers me for declining the photo and just shaking his hand

 

John Surtees.

 

A few years ago, when La La Land was up at the Oscars, Kimmel was hosting and appeared to genuinely surprise the celebrity audience by bringing in random tourists into the theater. You could tell some of the celebrities were taken aback by this and didn't really know how to react.

Gosling was the first to stand up and greet the tourists like an adult. Dude just seems like a class act and like a pretty normal guy. Denzel was pretty chill too.


https://hellogiggles.com/celebrity/oscar-meme-of-the-night-whispering-ryan-gosling/

 

Dan Gurney. He used to ride our local mountain road very frequently. Miss him. Good dude.

 

ive never met his man, im way too young. and to be honest if i did meet him i dont think i could hold court. but i would love to sit in on a speech or some sort of engagement. Gene Kranz, I think the flight director of the Apollo 13 mission. "Failure is not an option". Take a listen at the 35 min mark, although the whole podcast is great, Neil Armstrong, etc. The following couple minute commentary about him is also funny.

https://www.startalkradio.net/show/first-man-celebrating-neil-armstrong/

this thread has inspired me to buy his book, failure is not an option. excited to read/hear it.

 

Interesting that this thread popped up. This afternoon I'm going to this man's funeral:

https://www.auburnvillager.com/obit...cle_36d3835c-ca79-11e9-a620-7ba308fdd96a.html

He ranks pretty high on the impressive list for me.

 

I don't get to meet anybody but my wife meets them all. Here she is getting a selfie with Shaq at the office, who she said is one of the nicest and funniest people she's ever met. Next up for her...Alex Ovechkin.