I ate dinner with Larry Page once.

In a group setting.  Not, like, on a date.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.529222092881.2044005.36000062&…

My album on Facebook of all the famous people I've met through my job.

Braylon walking alone late at night on High street.  One can only hope he was wishing he could suit up one more time to kick Ohio's ass one more time.

Met Francis Ford Coppola (sp?) once in college.  I was walking on campus (Hofstra University...he is an alumn) and he asked for directions.  My friends an I were too self absorbed and rather rudely ignored his small talk.  After several attempts to engage us in small talk, this strange older man reached out to shake my hand and said "Hi, I'm Francis.  Francis Coppola."  We ended up talking to him for about 15 minutes.   Finally he looked around the campus, reminiscing as he looked around his old stomping grounds silently, awkwardly for a minute.  Then, the silence was broken as he seemed to come back to earth;  looked at us and said "God, I was an asshole."  With that, he walked away.  Perfect.

I got chewed out by Gary Moeller in front of Bo and Llyod at football camp for losing my chin strap, later Mike Gittleson made me throw-up all over the stationary bike after finding "absolute zero".

I've run into a bunch of the Red Wings on multiple occasions at Starbucks in Plymouth, Novi, and Northville. Apparently they really like to drink coffee before games.

One of the times, Lidstrom sat down right behind me and read the WSJ (assuming he was checking on his millions). No one knew who he was. Greatest defensemen ever and able to live in relative peace. Fascinating.

I partied with Roger Clemens once.  Unfortunately, he does not remember it.  

I caddied for Fred Funk in a benifit. It was great because everyone was in carts except us, so when everyone was getting their shots it was just me and Funk.

I met a bunch of Wings in Royal Oak after we won the Cup.  It was pretty funny actually,everybody was ignoring Lilja and he had to come up to introduce himself to people.  My favorite was meeting D-Mac at a signing once. 

I used to belong to the same club as Don Adams and spoke to him occasionally, a very funny guy but a terrible bridge player. Also met Telly Savalas at a restaurant. He came by my table and talked for awhile. very nice of him.

My best friend's older brother walked on as a fullback under Bo after serving in the Army.   He told me that he went to the weight room and asked about how to walk on.  Someone took him back to Bo's office.  Bo talked to him for a bit, then got up and smacked him all over his body like he was a piece of meat.  Bo, liked what he saw/felt and he ended up playing fullback behind Leroy Hoard for, I believe, 2 years.   As a little kid I ended up meeting Bo briefly after the spring game as Bo walked around from table to table shaking hands at  a players' family meeting that I got to atttend since I was so close with his family. 

I post on the same message board as a guy whose brother was on Jerry Springer.  Not joking either.  

Petway and other members of the hoops team at parties

Mike Hart and some football players the same

I've had a few conversations with JMFJ at various bars, he's a real cool down-to-earth guy

Sat right behind Jake Long at Yost once, I was too scared to say hi. He was terrifying in person. 
 

Met Lloyd at a speaking event. He was taller than I expected, and very nice and gracious.

for a post like this, I happened to run into a celebrity last weekend and know the mgocommunity will enjoy this:

I was in NJ over the weekend visiting my girlfriend and was waiting in the lobby of my hotel for her. All of a sudden, I notice Eddie George walking towards the elevator. A few people in the lobby were giving him high-fives and calling his name. Being a Michigan fan, I wasn't going to sucumb to the the rest of the crowd and cheer him on. As he was getting into the elevator, I called his name and he looked back at me after which I proceed to give him a big “GO BLUE”. He was caught so off-guard by it that he had no reaction. Of course, now that I look back at the incident, I should've made a snarky remark re. Ohio's current situation.

...I worked for ADM Mike Mullen (current/outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) when he was a captain and worked for ADM Gary Roughead (current/soon to be outgoing Chief of Naval Operations) when he was a vice admiral. I've met a few other CNOs, a former Chief of Staff of the Army, and two NATO/EUCOM Commanders.

When I completed my two year assignment at the White House I had my picture taken in the Oval Office with the Big Dog and had other interactions with the first family.

I've seen Robert Smith (OSU/ESPN not The Cure),  James Carville, and Mia Farrow at Reagan National and Bob Novak on a flight. I've sat within two rows of John King and Dana Bash at a Nationals game and at a Wizards game.

I had a nice conversation with Rep Jon Runyan at this year's U-M Club of Washington Congressional Breakfast.

I had a short conversation with Helen Thomas at a dinner event here in DC a few years ago.

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist is a friend of mine and he introduced me to Dan Aykroyd at a dinner event.

Grand Rapids, and ran into Jerry Sienfeld one random summer afternoon.  He was in town for a show that evening, and was walking around the grounds of the Gerarld Ford museum with his bodygaurd.  I was with my wife, sister and brother-in law (who is a bit of a clown).  After we had our picture taken with him, my bother-in-law shouted "Another point for Milosh!!!" at the top of his lungs.  Jerry smiled, but was likely not amused.

I've met a few celebs, but my favorite encounter was walking in on Kimbo Slice and his entourage doing some *stuff* in the bathroom at Caesar's Palace in Vegas. The bouncer, my bro, and I were the only non-entourage people in there, so it was watching him fight one of his buddies in the bathroom.

My dad's buddy is really good friends with Craig Frost, the keyboardist for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. My whole family went to Cleveland to see them play back in May and I met Alto Sax (the saxophone player) and got my picture taken with him. 

hmmm,

Met Uncle Ted Nugent when I was 12 at his "Kamp for Kids" in Caseville, MI. They had a contest where he put a dollar on a target and groups of kids got to shoot with him to see who could hit closest to the nose on George Washington. I was standing right next to uncle Ted when I shot my bow and I won. I also sat right at his feet as he was rocking out to various songs of his on his guitar in front of us...it was awesome.

I work in car rental so I've met Mike Hart (he's tiny in person and pretty shy). Brendan Shanahan walked into my store one day to get his receipt and him being one of my boyhood idols I was just flabberghasted and couldn't say anything to him.

Met Lloyd Carr - went to Michigan Hall of fame camp in Riverview when I was like 12 or 13...he spoke to us on the last day...that was cool.

Brandon Graham was just through my store a couple days ago but alas I was not around when he came in...that would have been cool.

Sam Sword used to come through here a lot...awesome guy always happy to stop and chat with me about whatever.

Met Guy Parent - nhl minor leaguer/etc. he was involved in Maine Hockey for a second and we talked about Jimmy Howard before he had his breakout years.

Met Mike Forcier when Tate was here...he rented a car here...generally pretty nice despite what everyone says about him.

I think that's just about it...

I said in a post a while ago, I used to live right down the street from Lidstrom, and our families actually became pretty close. So through that, I've met most of the Red Wings, including Illitch, Bowman, and Babcock.

As a waiter at Olga's during my senior year of high school, Eminem actually came into our restaurant with some really hot girl. I really wanted to serve him, but my manager insisted on taking it, so I just tried to walk by as many times as i could and give him one of those cool guy nods.

Also, I was eating lunch and "studying" in the Union between classes last semester (I was playing Pacman on Addictinggames.com), and Denard came up to me and said that he plays that game and asked if he could play a level. Made my day