No autographs!

I'll put their dumb people up against our dumb people anyday ... unless of course it's a Guitar Hero competition.

 

I'm sure you would, and I think I'd agree. But a lot of Europeans, especially from Britain, are dumber than a bag of rocks.

 

you're still here? fuck dude, don't you have some legal issues to clear up?

 

I know the autograph is way off limits. I usually will just shake the person's hand. That is my idea of an autograph. Shaking Elway's or Montana's hand has always been more important to me than that an autograph.

I have seen two actors from The Wire while traveling, and what I do is just look them in the eye, say hello, tell them I love the show and get a good handhake. That is plenty for me.

I will confess what I am guilty of, though. Twice I have asked a photog to snap a pic of me interviewing a person. Once it was Havlicek because he is my uncle's favorite player, and once I asked a pic to be taken with me interviewing a top NBA player because we went to the same high school. I infact remember the 10-year-old kid coming into the gym with his famously estranged father during summer hoops back when I was a high schooler.

Am I the only one guilty of doing the pic while you are interviewing?

 

I never thought of it as being any big deal personally. You aren't alone though. A lot of scribes have and will continue to do it.

 

There are certainly some cultural differences in the way the media treats athletes in other countries. I remember at the U.S. Open (tennis) when the Japanese reporters would clap after a Japanese player finished an interview. The same thing happens with some Latin American reporters after an interview with Sabbatini... I couldn't blame them for that, she was fine.