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Dick Butkus has passed away at the age of 80
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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1947616" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>About 12 years ago, my wife did a girls’ weekend in Vegas with several of her friends. I stayed home with the kids. Middle of Saturday, I get a text and it’s a picture of my wife with Dick Butkus?!?! They were sitting together and laughing. </p><p></p><p>I get the story later that my wife and her friends were walking through a mall and saw a sports memorabilia store where Butkus was taking pictures and signing autographs. My wife, a band-o fossil who bleeds orange and blue had to go meet him. </p><p></p><p>So she got in line and when he got to her, she told him she was from Champaign and went to U of I. He took extra time to chat with her about the town and the school and the upcoming football season. Then they posed for pictures and Butkus took his huge hands, pressed them together, and started making fart noises with them as the photographer tried to take pictures. The photo they got shows my wife and Butkus cracking up. </p><p></p><p>I have the signed mini-helmet my wife got for me sitting on my desk at work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1947616, member: 26283"] About 12 years ago, my wife did a girls’ weekend in Vegas with several of her friends. I stayed home with the kids. Middle of Saturday, I get a text and it’s a picture of my wife with Dick Butkus?!?! They were sitting together and laughing. I get the story later that my wife and her friends were walking through a mall and saw a sports memorabilia store where Butkus was taking pictures and signing autographs. My wife, a band-o fossil who bleeds orange and blue had to go meet him. So she got in line and when he got to her, she told him she was from Champaign and went to U of I. He took extra time to chat with her about the town and the school and the upcoming football season. Then they posed for pictures and Butkus took his huge hands, pressed them together, and started making fart noises with them as the photographer tried to take pictures. The photo they got shows my wife and Butkus cracking up. I have the signed mini-helmet my wife got for me sitting on my desk at work. [/QUOTE]
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