6 Degrees of Separation

[Blue Streak]

I accidentally rubbed asses with Jerry Falwell one time.

That's not the way he tells it.

 

[Carl Kuck]

Hmmm...

1: Does it count that I almost ran over Gary Busey with a shopping cart in the Safeway in Mammoth Lakes?

1: Was on the UCSD surf team with a guy named Russell Preisendorfer, better known to the surf community these days as "Rusty" (http://www.rustysurfboards.com/)

2: Friend of mine went to high school with Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Robert Downey Jr, and Sean Penn (who she said was a "preppy jerk)...

 

[Carl Kuck]

Ooh! Almost forgot!

1: Howard was one of my scuba instructors when I was 14... (http://www.howardhall.com/) Among other things, he helped invent the first underwater IMAX camera!
1: Also, Chuck Nicklin (http://chucknicklin.com/chucknicklin.com/Blog/Blog.html)
1: And Chuck's sons "Flip" and Terry (http://chucknicklin.com/History/)

San Diego was a great place to learn to dive, too bad the visibility usually sucked...

 

[Uncle-A]

1. I went to the same High School as basket ball star Rick Barry
2. I had the same football coach as football star Doug Flute.
3. Olympic Gold Medal winner in the 1964 downhill Egon Zimmermann was the Beconta ski rep for the ski shop I worked.
4. I was on the same flight from LA to Newark as Paul Newman and he signed my flight ticket. That was so far back it was before he stopped signing autographs.
5. I bumped into Soupy Sales at the Detroit Airport.(you have to be old enough to know who he is)

 

[Carl Kuck]

OK, OK, one more...

2: My brother-in-law built a bannister out of guitar necks for Joe Perry of Aerosmith. (How cool is that?!?!)

 

[KevinF]

Kerry Collins and I went to high school together and then lived in the same dorm building at Penn State. His very first NFL pass went for a touchdown as well (granted, it was an interception return for a touchdown, but still...). He was actually friendly to me; we would speak occasionally. I'm sure he doesn't remember me at all, but it was cool to watch his career progress.

 

[tromano]

I was in the same grade in elementary and high school with the kids from the band OAR.

 

[Lorenzzo]

I got food poisoning in a restaurant in San Diego owned by Telly Salavas.

 

[Uncle-A]

When I was teaching, one of my students was in the movie "School of Rock" he was the kid playing the keyboards in the band. He was a good student as well as an actor.

 

[Uncle-A]

Kerry Collins and I went to high school together and then lived in the same dorm building at Penn State. His very first NFL pass went for a touchdown as well (granted, it was an interception return for a touchdown, but still...). He was actually friendly to me; we would speak occasionally. I'm sure he doesn't remember me at all, but it was cool to watch his career progress.

Didn't he play for the Giants for a few years? I don't remember much about him as the Giants QB maybe he was better with other teams.

 

[Philpug]

A good friend of mine played ball with Jay Buhner (Seattle & New York), we met up with him one game when he was in Baltimore for a game.

 

[KevinF]

Didn't he play for the Giants for a few years? I don't remember much about him as the Giants QB maybe he was better with other teams.

Yep, Kerry played with the Giants. He was their starting QB when they lost to the Ravens in the Super Bowl in the early 2000's. I think he lost his Giants job when Eli Manning came along.

Kerry had a couple good seasons with various teams, but I don't know that he ever achieved "top tier" status. Still, you don't stick around in the NFL for 15 seasons unless you can still contribute. He didn't suck.

 

[Don in Morrison]

I went to the same high school as Ed Lincoln. I was probably a senior when he was a freshman, or he started the year after I graduated, but our paths never crossed in any case.

 

[Dadskier]

How about this one:
My future step son plays on the same little league team as Big Papi's son.

 

[Lorenzzo]

How about this one:
My future step son plays on the same little league team as Big Papi's son.

Ok....now that's huge.

 

[neonorchid]

Not to be a scrooge, it is a fun thread, but it keeps giving me flashbacks of -
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/penelope---therapy/n12399

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/penelope--traffic-school/n12209

 

[Dave Petersen]

The TV show THE BACHELORETTE (at the time my wife watched the show).

The Sutter Family - Friends of friend of mine's brother. Took this picture at a celebrity ski race where Ryan was participating on Chad Fleischer's team.