NYCGOBEARS;842501625 said:
Montana was buying a suit a few months back first thing in the morning and the associate that was helping him came and got me and introduced me as a big fan. He asked me "do you know what it's like to buy a suit with a hangover?" I replied, "no, but I know what it feels like to sell one." He nodded and wryly smiled.
That's pretty good.
A decade ago (oh wow) I interned the year after Cal at KNBR. One day, Montana was in the studio and as he was leaving, I was also leaving, and we were both waiting at the elevator door. It was 5pm, and KNBR was atop a medium sized office building in SOMA. Joe and his entourage (some sort of publicist type and a security guy) and I enter the elevator. Joe and the publicist stand in back, and the security guy and I stand in front. The elevator stops at the next floor down and quite a few people are waiting there. I take it upon myself to help protect Joe, standing broadly with the security guard and give a look like, "Not happenin'." I saw their faces looking puzzled as two guys are clearly not moving to let them in the elevator. As the doors closed they'd look past me and I'd see their faces change to, "Wait...is that...?!"
This scene plays out 3 or 4 more times. As I said, it was 5pm so lots of people were leaving work. On the third or fourth stop, Joe punched me playfully in the shoulder and says, "Why'd you have to go and hit all the buttons?"
It was hilarious.
Another more tangential Joe story. When I was 14 my parents were looking at a new Suburban. The dealer showed them a used Suburban that had just been traded in by Joe. My parents test drove it, but wanted a new one. When they told us when they got home with a new Suburban, we were furious that they hadn't gotten Joe Montana's old car when given the chance. Ugh.
