{"id":2922,"date":"2008-11-16T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wrestling-with-coach\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T21:41:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:41:15","slug":"wrestling-with-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wrestling-with-coach","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago,I had a run of bumping into semi-famous athletes at airports. The “hightlight” was John Rocker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the gate for today’s flight to Atlanta, I suspected that the cowboy-hatted, muscular, tattooed man standing beside me was “somebody.” When he took his hat off, I realized he was WWE rassler Shawn Michaels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’ll be pleased to know that a man who has taken so much physical damage in his career gets to fly first class.<\/p>\n

Update: Plenty of guys on the flight recognized him, but we were all afraid to go up to him and ask for a pic. He was a few rows ahead of me, so we ended up on the escalator down to the airport monorail a few steps apart.<\/p>\n

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A few years ago,I had a run of bumping into semi-famous athletes at airports. The “hightlight” was John Rocker. At the gate for today’s flight to Atlanta, I suspected that the cowboy-hatted, muscular, tattooed man standing beside me was “somebody.” When he took his hat off, I realized he was WWE rassler Shawn Michaels. You’ll … <\/p>\n

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