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I found this post over on Saints Report from a woman who won an auction in which the prize was Dinner with Deuce McAllister:
Here are her posts:
Post 1:
I ate dinner for about 3 hours with Deuce last night at "The Dock" which is the best new restaurant and bar in Gulfport Mississippi.
He only drank water guys, so not a big deal. He said he had to lift weights this morning with the team.
Of course I asked him about his knees and he said they were doing great. He moved around very well like they actually were doing well. He was going to play some ball with my nephew, but my nephew wanted to tackle him and I said "Absolutely not" I didn't want to be the reason for a setback. Deuce is an extremely nice guy.
I told him I was glad to see that we let Shaun Alexander leave yesterday and he said thats all good but he thinks we are going to be signing another veteran runningback. Thats what he said, I have no idea what that means.
He says he will absolutely play this year. No question about it. Deuce looked very trim and in shape. He is hard as a rock. I got him to sign about 20 things for me and we took a bunch of pictures together. What a great guy.
When asked about playing with Aaron Brooks he said it was the worst playing experiences he has ever been through. Then I asked him about playing with Brees and that must be a breath of fresh air. He said you have not idea. Drew is incredible.
Don't want to ramble on here but Deuce looks great, has a great attitude and seemed serious about his health and returning to the 2006 form that ran all over Philly. I asked him about that playoff game and he said thats the form he plans on getting back too. Overall I was extremely happy to see how good he was looking and feeling and to confirming all of the info that says Deuce is an incredible person. I think the Saints and the local fans have one of the greatest sports role models in any professional sport with Deuce.
I have tried to attach a picture of my family with Deuce last night. Not sure if it'll work though.
Post 2:
There was a fundraiser for St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis Mississippi and one of the items being auctioned off was Dinner for 26 with Deuce. My dad won that auction and instead of doing a crawfish party at the Stanislaus basketball coaches house like the auction was for, Deuce came down to "The Dock" where we had about 35 people come to talk with him. I tell you what it was awesome.
He was signing everything. He took pictures with everyone. The people in the party and the workers at the Dock. He turned no one away. He said he would be back to eat there. Its an awesome place with a bunch of TV's. Most of the area is a deck. Half of the deck is covered with a large bar and the TV's and the other half is open with another large bar. Then they have a large indoor seating area too. The Dock can easily fit 1500 people the place is so large. You can pull up to it in a boat or by car. Its really a great spot and Deuce said he'd be back there again. He probably ate 10 grilled quail and 15 lbs of crawfish!
Post 3:
Buy it or don't buy it, but he said that about Brooks and rolled his eyes. It had all of us laughing. We had a lot of fun together and I look forward to seeing him run over people this year.
On another note one of the waitresses was in fourth grade with him and had her yearbook with her. He signed next to his fourth grade picture. He looked exactly the same, just a little shorter. He told her not to show anyone, it was pretty funny.
I tried again to make the picture smaller, but it was taken in a much too high resolution to attach it unfortunately.
He had on a green t shirt and I asked why the Philly colors and he said it is definitely NOT philly colors, its just a plain green t shirt!
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