Meeting your hero can sometimes leave you disappointed. You have expectations, and they often fall short of the pedestal that you put them on. Last week at the Joe Namath Golf Outing, I was lucky to meet one of my all time favorite players, Dermonti Dawson. He was arguably the best Center in the history of football, but that doesn’t even come close to telling the story. He is an even better person than he is a Center or football player!
Besides being humble, Dawson is one of the nicest people I have ever met. A Hall Of Famer who was quick to point out that he was busy, but you know, “good busy”. He shared stories of Mike Webster and what he learned from Mike. He spoke of playing Bethpage Black and how he had to take pictures for his father and he took the time to know my name and my friends’ names.
Dawson also saved me from a huge blunder. I was so excited to meet him, I f
orgot to ask him to sign my hat. Dawson asked, “Hey can I sign your hat?” I had LC sign it last year and he noticed. He also reminded me that John Jackson was at the outing too and LC Greenwood was back.
At the reception, Dawson found me again and asked if I able to see John Jackson. 
He had told John to look for me. I did get to meet Jackson, with an unlikely assist from Ratbird all world tackle Jonathon Ogden. (Who by the way is another great person.)
It was one of the greatest experiences and it was all to support the March of Dimes!
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March 20th, 2013 at 9:48 pm
i was the caddy for that foursome, they were all pretty cool. but Dawson was by far the most poite, classiest, friendliest guy in the group. i told him i would tell as many people as i could how great a guy he was. (lousy tipper but no one is perfect lol)