Nobody brought this up, which surprised me. So, I thought that I would. Mia, Julie, Alan Rothenberg, and Bobby Smith went into the hall on Sunday in front of the biggest crowd to ever attend inductions. The place was nuts, and there were almost 5,000 people there. It was a great day and there were tears galore from inductees to fans (not I). But really, there were some interesting stories and quotes from all, and I will have a nice long video highlight package up hopefully by the end of the night, which will pretty much explain everything. But, I just had to share this story as well....
I am up there at the Hall of Fame, so I figure why not wear my old 04-05 Cobi kit from the nike days - only fitting since he is a future Hall of Famer. I go through the whole day there and I just pop into the lobby before I leave and this woman grabs me from behind. She asks me if I like Cobi, so I am thinking it's a fellow fan or something - that or she is hitting on me. So I say "Of course" and she brings me over to her friend who has this camera. Turns out, she is with the show on FSC, David Beckham's Soccer USA and they are doing interviews for an end of the season compilation on Cobi's retirement. SO, I spoke on camera with her for about 5 minutes, all about Cobi - it was like a freaking dream. The last question was - "Talk to the camera. Is there anything you would say to him?" I was crappin my pants it was so awesome...my own message to Cobi. I am not sure that I said everything I wanted to even, but quite simply I said "Thank you for everything" with a little more detail.
As if that wasn't great enough, I got the laugh of my life afterward. Te end of my interview was "Please state your name in the camera and say that we have the legal right to use this video yadda yadda." So I do that, and IMMEDIATELY after this woman comes up to me with her family. She has this sticks a sharpie and one of the hall of fame paper fan giveaways in my face and I become totally baffled. I thought maybe she wanted my autograph becuase I would be on the tv show, idk. But she starts talking in this deep southern accent and then the crap hits the fan. Honestly, I don't remember everything that she said because I was thinking to myself how stupid yet funny this was. I do know she starts talking and goes "Well we were at the NY-LA game last weekend and we were rooting for Red Bull but we were rooting for you too." Then she tells her daughter to stand next to me and her dad whips out a camera. She keeps talking, and starts calling me Cobi! Just to set the scene here, I am a skinny white dude with short hair, and this woman thinks I am Cobi Jones! I didn't know what to do so I signed my real name for the autograph, but then she just kept talking and I was like - "Uhhh, I'm not Cobi." Meanwhile my friend in the background has fallen down on his ass on the sidewalk in front of the museum as this woman just goes "Oh," in a stunned voice. She tries to save her humiliation by asking me if I even play soccer, and I say yes. I figure if she thinks I am Cobi Jones I can convince her I play semi-pro or something to let her off easy and she leaves with a smile saying "Maybe this will be worth something some day," as she points to my signature. Maybe this is something that is way funnier in person, but I did not stop laughing for 24 hours. The whole ride home, in the shower at home, everything. You couldn't make that crap up.
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