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| Author: | bigfan [ Tue May 30, 2006 8:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Johnny Crash Mengelt |
I get pulled over in front of the the Park Hyatt as a 22 year old punk driving the rag top jeep, expired plates, no city sticker and maybe no insurance. I am sitting in my car as the cops run my plates, then I see John Menglet coming down the stairs looking for a cab. I yell, "HEY CRASH"..and Mengelt comes over, asks me whats wrong, so i tell him. Mengelt says "Let me see what I can do" The cops come back over and say "Seeing you are a personal friend of Mr. Mengelts, we will let you off with a warning this time." Mengelt then signed a notebook of mine with a "Watch the Coppers" which I still have today. *FYI for all the Kids out there How we remember him: Nicknamed "Crash" for his all-out hustle and reckless abandon in diving for loose balls, 6-foot-2 guard John Mengelt was a fan favorite, electrifying the Pistons' crowd at Cobo Arena from 1972-76 with his aggressive play. The former Auburn All-America and 1971 SEC player of the year had his best season with Detroit in 1974-75, averaging 11 points per game. After the Pistons: Sent to Chicago early in the 1976-77 campaign, Mengelt played four seasons in the Windy City. After being cut by the Bulls, he played one year in Italy before closing the door on his 10-year NBA career with Golden State. Mengelt was a play-by-play basketball color commentator for 20 years on WGN in Chicago, ABC and for the Pistons in the mid-'80s. Today: Married 33 years, with a 24-year-old daughter. Mengelt, 56, is the owner of Breckenridge Partners, an executive search firm based in Northbrook, Ill., that he started in the early '80s. On his nickname: "In a final scrimmage in my rookie year with Cincinnati, Norm Van Lier, who was nicknamed 'Crash,' and I both dove for a ball and we hit heads. Norm ended up with 13 stitches, and I didn't have any. After the game he said, 'You are now Crash.' " On his most memorable "crashes": "In my very first NBA exhibition game, I have an angle on Earl Monroe and I'm going in to lay it up like I did in college. Gus Johnson came out of nowhere and hit me five rows into the bleachers, where I fall through the steel. He came over and said, 'Don't bring that stuff here anymore.' " |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Wed May 31, 2006 7:55 am ] |
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Talk about a gift from god. The story sounds fishy, but all brushes with fame stories do. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:36 pm ] |
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Come on Dolphin. got the Autograph lamiated and saved it for my wall of fame. lol. |
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