More Fan Day Fun

Did I mention that there was reportedly 4,500 people at fan day, and they weren't even playing a game? Did I also mention that it was about 98 degrees outside with a humidity of like 125%? It literally felt like the atmosphere would burst into rain at any moment. Come to think of it, it DID BURST INTO RAIN a couple of times. All of this means that the three of us felt like wet, sweaty, heat monger creatures by the time we got to the end of the line to see Coach Chizik. Tommy was able to pull this look off because he's three, and cute. I, on the other hand, looked like I had been in a sauna with all my clothes on. Coach Chizik was located in a nice air-conditioned room and when we walked in the door, there was a photographer lady there beside him. As soon as Tommy started walking towards Coach she started snapping away. I wasn't sure what was going on, so I backed up as much as possible, while still trying to be near Tommy in case he had one of those stranger danger meltdowns. The Coach was very nice and signed everything we pushed in front of him and posed for a few photos of our own. As we were walking away the photographer lady approached us and said that she was with the Birmingham News and wanted to know if she could use the photos she took in the paper. She also wanted to know Tommy's name and age, my name and where we were from. To be honest, I was kind of smitten with the fact that Tommy's photo might appear in the largest paper in the state and happily agreed to her request and answered all her questions. Later, it hit me, if she was taking photos of Tommy, then why did she want to know MY name??

That night when we got home, I checked the Birmingham News website and found one photo of Coach and Tommy, and (yep, you guessed it) one photo that had Tommy, Coach and me in it. No problem, I thought, there is no way they will use that photo of the three of us over that super cute one of Tommy looking up at Coach as he signs a football. And I was right. Morning came, we found a Birmingham News, opened it up, and found the adorable photo of Tommy and Coach (without me, THANK GOD) for all of the state to see.

Feeling quite proud, I drove to work ready to show off to all my co-workers the newspaper with this photo in it:

Super Cute Tommy & Coach Chizik Photo taken by The Birmingham News

On the way to the office, I noticed that my blackberry was all abuzz with emails. Not being one to check emails while driving, I refused to look at them until I got to the office. As soon as I walked in, the first thing that someone said to me was "Good Morning, Have you checked your email? No? Well, you might want to."

I opened my inbox to find about 10 different emails with a reply to the same subject line of "Famous Employee". I opened up the first one that I had received that morning to find nothing but a link to this photo:

Tommy and Coach, with heat monger creature in the background taken by The Birmingham News

Sigh.... Apparently, one of my coworkers in our Birmingham office found this photo online and emailed it to EVERYONE IN THE COMPANY. Needless to say, by the time I got to work, this photo was plastered in every common area in my office building. I'm *still* finding copies of it lying around that I have to throw away.