I was on an NFL QB kick a while back.. it started on 12/30/00 right after the Colts lost to the Dolphins in OT in the playoffs. I was on a flight FLL-ATL and Peyton Manning sat right next to me. Even he commented on the lack of legroom on the 764.

Then I sat next to Trent Dilfer MSP-ATL. He is much larger than Peyton.

Dan Marino FLL-ATL.

Ryan Leaf FLL-CVG

I found myself standing next to Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas at LAX once. They were holding hands and looking a bit nervous with all of the people around, so I kept my mouth shut.
Have also seen a number of Seahawks at SEA over the years, including Cortez Kennedy (BIG guy) and Brian Blades.

I also saw the guy who sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy" at SFO once, but I can't for the life of me remember his name. Can anyone help me???

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Fishbait, thank you for jogging my memory!

I was staying at El Convento in Old San Juan in the late 80s. Imagine the grin on my face when I realized that ALL the contestants for Miss Puerto Rico were staying at that same hotel -- with their severe matrons watching them like hawks!

Latin women...

RAD

jerry glanville on the red-eye lax-mco after the game in oakland on his way to tampa for the superbowl. the guy next to him talked his ear off the entire flight.

steve garvey sfo-ont on my first summer from hell flight

marcus allen (sat next to him, didnt know who he was until the f/a pulled my aside and told me) red-eye lax-mco

eric karos (sp?) and two other baseball players, one girlfriend and a dog on the lax-mco red-eye prior to spring training. eric and his seat mate were up chatting all night with both lights on. i guess they didnt have to go to work the next day like i did.

some girl who was flying to the eco challenge somewhere, this was on a delta flight mco-lax. she was learning to scuba dive on the plane by reading a book about it.

one of the characters on the sopranos. mco-lax. i dont think he is acting on the show. he seemed very much like his character. loud, overbearing, wife-beater undershirt, etc.

those were all in first.

orlando predators cheerleaders, mco-lax. they road in coach in the back couple of rows. so much for the glamorous life of a cheerleader

Bobby Ferrin (sp?) sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy".

Let's see -- a couple of years ago I was on a WN flight with then-governor George W. Bush. He was surrounded even then by muscular young men speaking into their cufflinks.

Only other "celeb" would be singer Shawn Colvin on a DL flight.

Don't Worry Be Happy was sung by Bobby McFerrin.

He's actually a really talented classical musician, as well. Until very recently I believe he was the conductor of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

I've seen him a few times around town.

This is a nit but it was Bobby McFerrin.

Several years ago on an elevator of the King Eddy in Toronto, this stately African American woman in a beautiul garb came on. She spoke a few pleasantries and had this amazing presence.

Only later that day, while perusing a local events magazine, did I find out that Maya Angelou was in town!

I sure felt stupid!

Nobbi

What senseless drivel.

Then why are you reading it? This is the fifth page - surely it didn't take you that long to figure that out!

I met Sinbad (the comedian) outside at the American departure terminal at ORD one mid-November either two years ago or three, before Thanksgiving holiday. I was arriving and went up there to meet my folks who were picking me and my wife (then girlfriend) up.
I had to go back to the baggage terminal to get my other bags and on the way there, saw Sinbad. He was standing out of a black limo, along with a beautiful and leggy black woman, stuffing a couple of size 17 (looked like it!) shoes in a bag and dropping one liners in every other sentence, making people around him and the limo drivers laugh outloud. Since I am deaf, I couldn't understand the jokes one bit but couldn't resist smiling from the laughter in the air.

At one point when he stopped talking, I went up to him, introduced myself, and told him that I always wanted to watch his comedy specials on television but couldn't since the specials were never captioned. He told me not to worry and that he would make sure that the shows would be captioned from that point on. I thanked him and left. I was elated to meet him and really hoped that he meant what he said.

Sure enough, a month or two later, I was clicking through the channels and happened to come up in the middle of one of his specials and, guess what? It was captioned!
Boy, he really earned my respect and gratitude!

It seems that you must be deriving some sort of amusement and/or entertainment by the mere fact you have posted your indignation on the subject so late in the thread.