FRIDAY: Ok, am awake and full of energy today. First stop of the day, Radio Row to spend some time with my good friend Doug Fisher of WTRX 1330 in Flint. Let me tell you, radio row is a different experience. Imagine about 400 radio stations jammed in to a big ball room. Now throw in all kinds of players, media members, celebrities and girls everywhere, and you have a good picture of radio row. It took about 45 minutes just to get through security. Crazy ! So Doug and I spent the morning chatting about the big game, and I kept on the lookout for some old friends. Ran into Kevin Gogan from the Miami days, and we talked a little about the the old days. Unfortunately for Kevin, he got cracked in the skull with a headset, and ended up with a nice ol' cut on the melon. Played for 15 years in the NFl, and hardly ever got dinged. Shows up with Stokie and he's on the DL in the first 5 minutes. We also got a nice visit from the Doctor that did my Lasik surgery and more importantly, his knockout assistant Zarah.
After radio row, we grabbed some lunch with some friends at the Boardroom down by Cobo Center, and made a quick run through the NFL Experience with my Foundation director and his kids. Although Stokie has a lot of energy, the kids wore me out, so it was off to a NFL Players Association Networking event. It was a different type of party, but it was interesting. It gave me a chance to meet with a bunch of Fortune 500 execs and talk about the Foundation as well as life after I get done playing football. There were a lot of interesting people there, and it was fun to talk a little business.
Next on the agenda was the Jimmy Kimmel Show. That was an experience. We got to sit in the green room before the show, and got some nice seats in the second row. Kimmel is funny, and had some great guests on, especially Jessica Alba.
After Kimmel, we grabbed a little dinner at the Ponchartrain and then hit the NFL Players Party. Let me tell you....players everywhere, and an awesome concert by old school LL Cool J and Ciara. Good times!
Let me tell you...the energy is fading quick. It's 4 a.m. and I am dragging. More tommorrow as I am off to the real Taste of the NFL....No more coney's for Stokie.
Thank you for the pictures of Zarah...I will now download them into my mental hardrive for tonights session in which I mentally manipulate my miniscule monkey.
Posted by: pookie | February 07, 2006 at 02:37 PM