A man in the Salt Lake City area bought a used cell phone only to go home, power it up, and find awesome phone numbers such as Wayne Gretzky, Patrick Ewing, Alan Houston, Marv Albert, Bud Selig, David Stern, and Bob Costas, amongst many others.
What a gold mine for someone who collects numbers of professional athletes and famous people. Unfortunately, this guy plans on deleting the numbers rather than calling his favorites (Albert and Costas) to hear them at least breathing on the other end.
Let me tell you a little story. I had Tayshaun Prince’s phone number back in 2004 because he had a team trainer deliver it to a pretty looking girl in the front row at a Pistons game. That pretty little girl was a friend of my brother’s and naturally, she gave it to all her guy friends because she wanted to be popular and probably had no interest in the skinny, pale, black kid from Compton who only averaged a little over 10 points per game. Anyway, I stored the number for a rainy day. Sure enough, the Pistons went to the playoffs and would go on to win the NBA Finals that year. So my friends and I made it a point to call Tayshaun and congratulate him after every win. We knew he wouldn’t pick up immediately after the game so we left him voicemails, simply congratulating him, no shenanigans except maybe leaving some of them in Apu Nahasapeemapetilon’s voice from The Simpsons. For all Tayshaun knew, though, it could have been random high school buddies he lost touch with. Nothing bad. Well, I guess after 16 voicemails he had enough and changed his number before the next season. Over the past few years, I’ve also had numbers such as David DeJesus and Delmon Young (and that story we’ll retell here at D4L for years to come, just not today), but never found a reason to use them.
Anyway… yeah, so this guy should at least make some phone calls to some of these people before having them deleted like a good samaritan. And I know exactly what he should say to some of them:
Marv Albert: “Starks for three…Yes!!!!” /click
Patrick Ewing: “Have you ever been dunked on by Patrick Chewing?” /click
Bob Costas: “Bob, I’m getting married in July. Can you do the introductions? That Cheers finale was so touching. /click
Bud Selig: “It’s ok, your secret’s safe with me” /click
Alan Houston: “Wish you would have stayed in Detroit, man.” /click
Jerry Colangelo: “Hi. That’s all I got.” /click
Tom Brokaw: “Tom, Costas couldn’t introduce my wedding in July. You free?” /click
Wayne Gretzky: “I’m going to make your head bleed for super fan 99 over here” /click
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