| Optimistic T |
02-26-2006 10:51 PM |
There's some luck involved and I'm not sure what will work at your arena. I used to go to the Bryce Jordan Center in State College, Pennsylvania (home of Penn State) for shows.
I got Jerry Lawler's autograph at the local mall a few hours before the show. My friend's sister who wasn't much of a fan spotted "a big guy who looks like a wrestler" who went into Foot Locker. I walked over and sure enough, there was 'The King' and I couldn't make this up if I was trying, but he was checking out a pair of Lugz. Luckily, I had paper and a Sharpie just in case and got his autograph. My friends did too. He walked out of the store without anyone noticing him, until one of my friends who was scrimaging for paper while the others of us got the autographs ran up to him in the middle of the mall. That's all it took and he was surrounded. He didn't seem to mind though.
Also, there was a caged off area in the private exit. We hung out there before another Raw taping we went to (first Raw on TNN, actually) and there weren't a lot of people around. Luckily I have five friends along and they chanted whatever I chanted to get wrestler's attentions. A few of them passed us by or just played up to us without coming over like the Dudleys and the trio of Road Dogg, Godfather and Mideon. However, we did manage to get Pete Gas and Lillian Garcia's autographs. Lillian, btw, is absolutely GORGEOUS in person. I mean, ten times hotter than on TV. She just has this aura around her. Pete Gas was really cool too. Huge biceps. Jerry Lawler is surprisingly not that tall. I shook his hand... same hand he slapped Andy Kaufman with ;)
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