Whose the most famous person you've witnessed playing live?
 

Like, you were actually at the arena when they played?

For me, I saw Roger Clemens pitch probably over 10 years ago on the Red Sox, that was crazy. Then I sat behind the Avalanch bench a few times when they played the Wild, so I was right up next to Sakic, Forsberg, Roy etc. and they pulled Ray Bourque early, and he looked at me. Other than that and KG, I think thats all the greats that I have seen in person.

Maybe this is worth mentioning too, remember the Vikings vs. Broncos game last year, where at the end of the first half Daunte Culpepper bombed it to moss, who caught it and lateralled it to Mo Williams for the touchtown, I was there. What is the best play you have seen live?

Ronaldinho. To steal Wengerland's sig...

Other than that, I've seen a few Leicester legends play various testemonials.

I don't get to many live events... I was there in the early 90s for opening day Twins, though. I remember Kirby and Hrby hit back to back first-pitch home runs and the crowd was nuts.

Been to like four or five Vikes games, nosebleed seats, and nothing special. Mostly vs the Lions (cheapest) once vs the Bucs and saw the Jax preseason game last year.

One Wild game this year, vs the Kings, so the most famous person I saw there was... :?:

And I had tickets to see Wolves/Lakers earlier on, but it was the day after I had surgery, so I didn't go :'( Shaq, Kobe, GP and Malone... I think one or two of them were injured but I can't recall. As long as I could see GP, I'd be :y:

I saw Drew Bledsoe play in like his 2nd season back in the day, they beat the Jets and then went on to beat the Vikings the next weekend to end the season on a 7 game winning streak. Had luxury box seats at the Boston Garden..like one of the last games ever played there...it was pretty cool. I think Antoine Walker was on the team then, but im not 100% sure. I remember Greg Minor dropped 31 points for the C's :cool:

I went to a Yankees/Red Sox game one time with Pedro on the hill...probably the best sporting event ive ever been too.

I went to the Lakers/Wizards game two seasons ago. Every time Michael and Kobe lined up to face each other in a set play, the crowd lost it. Good times.

Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Hulk Hogan

Gretzky,Messier, bobby hull, Gordie Howe, bunch of other hockey players.

Diego Maradona - Saw him playing for Tottenham in a testimonial years and years ago. I can barely remember it though.

I just asked my old man the same question and he has seen practically every legendary football player of the last 40 years. Jammy bastard.

<font color=goldenrod>Barry Bonds at a Mets home game. We had left-field seats so he was about 20 feet away from me</font>

I guess Cal Ripken JR

Like HardKore,mine would be Ronaldinho.

a.k.a The man

I say that but thats for me personally,on a global scale it would probably be David Beckham.When i saw him play it was his first game with a new haircut,which got a lot of press.

Yeah I saw Bret Hart at a House Show yeeeeeeeeeears ago. If you're counting wrestlers, there ya go.

Load of Premiership players and like most of the big name European visitors to Newcastle (Barcelona, Inter mainly I guess) but outside football it would have to be Kobe Bryant or Shaq in an NBA game years ago when Kobe was still on the bench to Eddie Jones (aka the man). Against the Vancouver Grizzlies - Lakers rolled them over.

I've seen Gretzky in a game against the Jets when he was with the Kings and Kobe and Shaq in a game against the Grizzlies

i dunno... all of man utd... i saw most of the class of 92 back when they were playing in the reserves team with my grandad. i've only seen the first team once when we beat middlesborough 1-0 and bosnich saved a penalty and we chased the referee halfway around the pitch.

I was right next to the players box too :cool:

Cal Ripken...interleague play

dun correct me on jr either

TIOE, where was that Shaq/Kobe vs. Memphis game?

For me, went to a Braves - Marlins game last year so Sheffield, Maddux, etc.

Saw Sprewell and the rest of the 92 Bama team (James Robinson, Robert Horry, etc.) back in the day.

Shaun Alexander :love:

VANCOUVER!

Got a bunch of cheap Grizzlies gear cause they were moving too

I've been to many NFL games and can't remember who I've seen, I went to the '96 Olympics in Atlanta and saw some stuff, and I saw Roy Jones Jr. once. :-\

:eek:

I wanna goto a Griz game :(

Yeah I'd love to go, I've always been a Grizzlies fan and I would just mark out seeing them be so awesome live

Hopefully they don't get raped in the expansion draft, or hopefully they do and West signs Kobe

That'd be crazy :eek:

I've been to a couple Red Sox games one where they played Seattle in Boston a few years ago so I saw Nomar, A-Rod and Ken Griffey Jr. all on the same field. The other was in Baltimore, so nothing special. I've also been to a Rockie's Padres game back when Bichette was with the Rocks and Caminiti was still with the Padres.

I've been to a couple Nascar races so I've seen some of the best they have to offer like Rusty, Dale Jr., DJ, and yes even Gordon. :n:

Ken Griffey Jr played in some of the Reds game Ive gone to. Ive seen Randy Johnson pitch and I went to a Cubs game when Ryne Sandberg was still playing.

Ive seen Warren Moon and Boomer Esiason in football live.

I saw 50 something Gordie Howe play in the IHL with Detroit

I've seen Joe Montana play for the Chiefs against the Bills in the early 90's in the AFC Championship game. I have a picture of him warming up before the game. We were on the Chiefs side. (Bills won of course). On a side note, O.J. Simpson was walking the sidelines on the Chiefs side, this of course was before he killed his wife.

I've seen numerous Yankees play. One game i was on the first base side in the front row, even with first base, and before the game the Yanks were warming up. When they were done Paul O'Neil came over and signed an autograph for a little girl right next to us. I could have grabbed him, he was that close. I always thought that was very cool of him. Another time I was seven rows behind the Yanks dugout and we were able to move down to the front row because no one was sitting their. So we got to see all the Yanks up close when they were in the on-deck circle.

Wrestling related, I met Bret Hart at a ticket sale, for the first time Nitro came to the Hartford Civic Center. At the time, Bret was the United States champ. He was their with the Nitro girls, sighning autographs when you walked through the line. He was very nice and it was cool to met my favorite wrestler of all time. I talked to him for a minute or two but we had to keep moving. He signed a WCW magazine for my son.

I live in the Northwest Corner in CT. Which is a hotspot for Celebs to have their summer homes plus their is Skip Barber Racing school, which alot of celebs go to and Lime Rock Race track, which attract alot of famous people who race their Porches, Ferrari's and what not. Anyways, I worked at a restaurant so i was able to met a few celebs. I met Brian Johnson the lead singer for AC/DC, and I've seen Michael J. Fox, Kevin Bacon, Meryl Streep, and Whoopi Goldberg. They all leave close by. I've also seen Stephan Baldwin, he is really nice and down to earth, Mark Gaustineu (sp), he played football for the Jets in the 80's and Sally Jesse Raphael.

Hard to believe, but if you look into it this is the perfect place for these people to get away from the hustle and bustle of the City and it's about 2-3 hrs away.

Probably David Beckham

Let's see; Paul Kariya, Mats Sundin, Alex Mogilny, Roger Clemens (I think I remember seeing him throw a few gems in his Jay seasons), Alan Iverson, Vince Carter and if we're counting wrestlers, Bret Hart amongst others.

I've seen Mario Lemieux live, and let me tell you, this guy is a magician with a puck. He did wonderful play through the night, and it was just great.

I also saw Gretzky, Forsberg, Sakic, and PATRICK ROY. He's a great goalie. I was there at a pre-season Montreal vs Nordiques gaem. They went 0-0 until overtime, and Gilbert Dionne scored at about 2 seconds before the end of the OT. Roy goaled a great game.

:lol:

Raped... + Kobe...! :lol:

Hilarious

lots and lots of hockey players. cant think of them all.

come 2010, imma gonna see more :cool:

Any Rugby Player you can think of.

NFL

Will Overstreet, DE for the Falcons was on my football team.. As was Todd Wade who's a OT for the Dolphins (but played when I was in seventh grade).. Eli Manning and Deuce McCallister at Ole Miss..

NBA

Mo Williams, Lisdey Hunter and others played for my highschool..

I've seen England play before, so you'd think I'd have tons of great players rolling off my tongue, except this was when we REALLY sucked. I think our best player was David Platt... I've just checked, Gascoigne was apparently playing so I guess it'll be him. I almost got the chance to see Jurgen Klinsmann in action too, but he chose that weekend to be injured, so I had to settle for Ginola.

Lol, David Platt I remember him.

Kris P, where did you go to high school?

Oooh, here's a thought - does Michael Schumacher count as someone "playing"?

NHL:
Steve Yzerman, Bret Hull, Joe Sakic, Sergei Federov, Mike Madano, Domink Hasek, etc (the Stars roster this year and 2 years ago plus the Avs roster this year and Wings of 2 years ago.)

MLB:
Nolan Ryan (several times), Cal Ripken Jr, Ken Griffey Jr

NFL:
Emmitt Smith, Aikman, etc (Cowboys from one of their Super Bowl years.)


If you gave that list to somebody around here (Texas) and asked them who was most famous, they'd tell you Nolan Ryan. However, I'm guessing it isn't as impressive to you guys eh?


Edit:
Oh and I forgot to mention Olympic gold medalists Brandon Slay and Kurt Angle (not at a WWE event, well I've seen him there too, but that's not what I meant!!).

Does he count as someone "famous"? :p

I like him, which has got to count for something. :)

Well you are about the 4th person ever who admitted to liking him ;)

I'm part German, I'm allowed to. Plus I got over him taking out Damon Hill for the title when Damon paid him back twice the next year... god bless Damon.

I've been lucky, so I've seen a lot of "great players" and some "great games".

top 3 players...

Larry Bird
Michael Jordan
Cam Neely

top 3 games
this is tough, some kinda blur...
game 3, I think it was 3. Sox over A's last year that sent it back to Oakland.
Jordans first game back (it was at the garden) it was just electric. *
Pats v. Bills MNF it was the first MNF game in Foxboro in like 15years.

* - Part of the reason this game stands out, Ahmad Reshad and Bill Murry were a few rows in front and Murry was shaking hands on the way out triped and fell onto me. Also, I was on the isle, next to me was Bledsoe. People kept sneaking through security for an autograph, during a break I took my ticket stub, signed in "to drew, best wishes" or something like that and told him he'd given enough autographs he deserved to get one, laughed and thanked me and shook my hand. eventually he threw it on the ground, the really funny part was after he left, some guy came over and grabbed the stub and put it into a book, thinking it was bledsoes or something... I can't wait till 20yrs from now I see my autograph on a Celts ticket stub in some colectable store :)

Honerable mentions: Seeing Neely, also saw Bourque. Saw the celts teams of the early/mid 80's. Same w/ Red sox, saw Clemens v. Pedro, Saw the Pats upset Indy in Foxboro (I think it will Belichecks first season). Celtic playoff games last year, Red sox playoffs last years also saw the Pats game when Bledsoe got knocked out, and everyone panicked wanting to know why Huard wasn't in, and I told everyone around Brady would be fine...

Barry Bonds, pre-roids, back when he and Andy Van Slyke and Orlando Merced were the Pirates' outfield.

During batting practice, Van Slyke was putting on a show, catching balls behind his back and stuff. Of course, he was getting booed, 'cause we were in Cincy. :)

Bonds probably.

I see a lot of guys during Spring.

I saw Roger Clemens throw his 3000th strikeout, so that was pretty cool. There are lots of others, but I can't really think right now.

I saw Bruce Bowen from the Spurs this morning. I work close to the airport and they had just arrived and were leaving in their vehicles.

There were some others but it was too dark to get too much info.

Probably either David Beckham or Eric Cantona

You should have said "GOOD GAME BRUCE!"

Then he would have dropkicked you.

It was soooo good when he tried that sh</>it on Villeneuve.

I saw everyone who competed in the track and field events at the manchester commonwealth games plus everyone who mplayed a premiership game at the Riverside Stadium over the last 4 years

nfl - bo jackson, deion sanders that's pretty good for living in a city with no football team (LA), personally know one on the panthers

nhl - gretzky

nba - magic, worthy, jordan, penny, garnett, tmac, and the college i go to has the spurs practice at, and opposing players also practice here sometimes

mlb - hershiser, piazza, dennis martinez, bo jackson, nomar, mnny, giambi, frank thomas, ordonez, pudge, albert belle, personally know a bunch of people in the minors and majors

soccer, during world cup 94 saw 3 games, usa v columbia, cameron vs sweeden, sweeden vs romania, saw valencia vs ac milan this summer, personally know a couple of people in mls

Being a Chelsea season ticket holder you would think that there are loads of great people I have seen. Beckham is the most famous out of everyone I have seen, but nowhere near the best. Rivaldo, Henry, Gullit, Vialli and Zola are the best I have seen.

Maybe Schuey was trying to do Jacques a favour and prevent him from going down in history as the most overated F1 champion of all time. :p

Lemieux, Jagr, Francis, Kovalev, Straka, Alfredsson, Hossa, Chara, etc... Sens basically and Pens when they played the Sens: Saw the Pens back in like 93 and a couple of years later and then again like two years ago.

As for Wrestlers well I met and talked with Bret Hart for like 10 minutes at a hockey game once.

Ken Griffey Jr. when he was on Seattle in a game against the Yanks.

Ronaldo

Martyn Johnson, saw him playing for the Tigers vs dragons this year (shut up WWEngland :mad: ) Captain of the England world cup winning team, i guess he's classified as famous. And Rivaldo vs Wales. :-\

oh and Ryan Giggs and alan shearer.