CanyonAg77 said:
Wife doesn't post here so I'll tell her story
Mid 1970s, while attending Spring Woods High School, she worked in the bakery of a "Handy Andy" grocery store. Spring Woods is a very white, very affluent neighborhood at the time.
A Very Large black man and his beautiful knockout of a wife come to her counter. Both were exceptionally polite and easy to wait on.
But the odd thing was all the grocery baggers and stock boys who were trying to sneak up for a look. They were hiding in the nearby aisles and peeking around corners. It made her wonder what was so wrong that they were staring at her so intently.
The couple left, and she asked one of the stockers what the heck is going on?
"Don't you know? That was George Foreman!"
That's awesome, especially since I grew up down the road from Spring Woods. My mom is from Marshall Tx and once saw him jogging/training along 59 on the outskirts of town. He's had a big spread there for a long time with emus and all types of exotics.
One of my mom's friends from school was a brain damaged paraplegic from a football accident when he was younger, and he lived down the little farm road from George. He would come by and visit him and it meant the world to him and his family.
Me and my family met him once at a Reptile Exhibit in Houston and we bought an inguana and named him George. He couldn't have been nicer or more full of joy when we met him.
Rest in peace Legend.
