Dick Butkus was the toughest I worked for and didn't get. I was 9 or 10 and a bunch of NFL players were at a golf charity event. The players I wanted to make sure I got were Lem Barney, Deacon Jones, Dick Butkus and Don Meredith. Lem Barney was easy and Don Meredith didn't show. Deacon Jones was very difficult to locate - he seemed to be kind of Marshawn Lynch-ish and when I found him he was by himself in a small bar nowhere near the main clubhouse. He never said a word, but signed. Butkus simply was nowhere to be seen. Turns out he spent all of his free time in the clubhouse, certainly because kids weren't allowed inside. I went inside anyway and walked up to the table where he was sitting with some other men. He grimaced and yelled at me "Kids aren't allowed in here." He was the only sports figure asshole on my childhood list until I met Pete Rose.
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