From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   Nice story; thanks for sharing. Sounds like fun. And that's a LOT of   
   sigs!   
      
   On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:47:52 -0600, "KC"   
    wrote:   
      
   >The 2007 Grey Cup Champs; Saskatchewan Roughriders had their annual   
   >Saskatoon day of training camp today. They had a scheduled 45 autograph   
   >signing along with their practice. My wife and I were there 15 mins early   
   >and waited. Ken Miller the new coach, who replaced Kent Austin who left to   
   >be an Offensive coach at U Mass. Anyway, Coach Miller was very nice and   
   >signed for a few people before the guys came out. The PR people said the   
   >guys will spread out so we should do the same. So out they came. My wife   
   >said we should stay close but within 5 mins, we were off getting our own   
   >stuff singed. I had a CFL official football and she had a Sask Roughriders   
   >ball (silver) On the way up she said this was my thing not hers. By the   
   >time the guys came out she was having as much fun as I did and actually got   
   >2 of the guys I missed. Then she shows me here photos she got, now she   
   >loves the Riders, or I mean Andy Fantuz. She got some neat pics with some   
   >of the guys, including a guy a went to highschool with, Gene Makosky. When   
   >I finally got to Fantuz for my ball, he looked at it and looked at me and   
   >said, that is a nice signed ball. I used a silver paint marker to give to   
   >the guys, I guess it looked good if the player who was the longest wait   
   >liked it! Then to boot, my wife ended up with 33 sigs, me 31...A fun day   
   >ended with watching them practice.   
   >   
      
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