Autograph Of The Week:Chris Calloway

  

Despite having well over 6,000 different NY Giants cards and plenty of autographs that takes up that number, there are still some players I don't have signatures of that were pretty easy to acquire.

Take Chris Calloway for example. Pretty affordable, talented but forgot about Giants Wide Receiver who led the team in receiving from 95-98.

Calloway began his career for the Pittsburgh Steelers and played two years there before going to the Giants via Free Agency. That's where he played his 7 best years of football before he ended his career on one year deals with the Falcons and Patriots. Will be honest I didn't know about him being with the Patriots.

I can finally knock Calloway off from my needs list after picking up this card from Burbank Sportcards Beckett Marketplace for $3. I also used 15Burbank and saved myself 10% off. I recommend you do the same.

They Shot Hoops Once

Locally, I don't see much in terms of celebrities or sports players. It's not exactly the location for those type of people to live unless they are in hiding or want to be away from media or paparazzi.

However, one year, some Giants players came to the local college to help with a fundraiser. It's been so long and I was so young-as you can see these photos are done with an old Polaroid camera- that I don't honestly remember what the fundraiser was for or what year they came. All I knew was that my father and I had a fun time at the event even though many memories from it are now a blur.

I believe the Giants players came to verse the college team while also grabbing some fans from the crowd to join in. It was mainly kids who raised their hands to get the players attention so they could do a "slam dunk". Maybe something similar you would see with Globetrotters. I wasn't going to volunteer myself however as I was very shy. That's changed a bit over the years.

The players who showed up arrived wearing basketball jerseys with their football jersey number. This is 2-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl winner Dave Meggett. One of my favorite players from my childhood with his special teams work.

The bad part I just found out is that Meggett is serving a 30 year sentence for a few things he did including robbery. It's sad to see some of your favorite childhood players not knowing what to do after they retire from pro sports.

After they played a round of basketball, the players each sat a table in the back of the gymnasium for an autograph signing. here is a pic with Giants LB Pepper Johnson, Dave Meggett again and Stacy Robinson.

 

I still have the two special pieces of paper that the three players I got to sign, signed on including Dave Meggett, Chris Calloway and Stacy Robinson hanging up in the man cave.

This was the last time the players ever came to this event. I am just glad I was able to go to it.

The Time That I...met some NY Giants!

I must have been around 8 when the NY Giants came to our local College for a basketball charity for the college. They had done it the previous year, but I had missed out on going. So this time my father this time, my father made sure we got to go. It was an awesome experience. Watching Dave Meggett attempt to dunk (for those of you who know him, he's not the tallest guy around) and a few others interact with fans in the crowd calling the little kids out to play with them. I wasn't lucky enough to be chosen, but did get seats up front.

At the end of the hoops, each Giants player sat at a table and everyone had to wait in lines to get autographs. I managed to get autographs of Dave Megget, Ed McCaffrey (still not sure about this one) and Chris Calloway. Was a great experience. I wished they still did that here. But it was only just for those 2 years. But I was glad to had been able to go once.