High Roller App Gala

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High Roller App Gala

Unread post by NewApp » Mon May 08, 2017 7:03 pm

$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
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Re: High Roller App Gala

Unread post by McLeansvilleAppFan » Mon May 08, 2017 7:46 pm

I got Bob Griese's autograph in the late 1970's when Miami was at Atlanta. I wonder if he will remember me? If was a Bob Griese labeled football that Bob Griese signed. I should start a GoFundMe to see if I could get a chance to ask him to resign the football, and catch up on old times. I think we really connected after the game for those 30 seconds.
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Unread post by NewApp » Mon May 08, 2017 7:57 pm

McLeansvilleAppFan wrote:I got Bob Griese's autograph in the late 1970's when Miami was at Atlanta. I wonder if he will remember me? If was a Bob Griese labeled football that Bob Griese signed. I should start a GoFundMe to see if I could get a chance to ask him to resign the football, and catch up on old times. I think we really connected after the game for those 30 seconds.
One of my coaching friends made it to the last cut on one of the Griese era teams. He played for little ol' Livingstone College.
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Re: High Roller App Gala

Unread post by eggers76 » Mon May 08, 2017 8:07 pm

I believe Greise has had a Summer home at the Elk River development for several years now. Don Shula had one there too, if my memory is still intact.

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Unread post by proasu89 » Mon May 08, 2017 8:09 pm

NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
Don Shula has one in the High Country as well.

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Unread post by firemoose » Mon May 08, 2017 8:14 pm

Bob Matheson is the one who brought them both up here first, along with a couple more of his old teammates. He's the reason they bought houses up here. Bob was a great friend of the family and I met a lot of them when I was a kid.

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Unread post by CVAPP » Mon May 08, 2017 8:48 pm

NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
I worked at Stonewalls in Banner Elk back the late eighties while I was finishing up at App. Don Shula was a Stonewalls' patron back then. Perhaps Don introduced Bob to the area. BTW, the food at Stonewalls was top notch. The guy that founded and owned Stonewalls was a total ahole to work for, but he did the cheffing and I respected his passion for what he did. It was perfect or it was not served to a patron.

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Unread post by AppinVA » Mon May 08, 2017 10:15 pm

Shula lived(s) in Linville Ridge. I cleaned the carpets in his house once.
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Unread post by T-Dog » Mon May 08, 2017 11:43 pm

CVAPP wrote:
NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
I worked at Stonewalls in Banner Elk back the late eighties while I was finishing up at App. Don Shula was a Stonewalls' patron back then. Perhaps Don introduced Bob to the area. BTW, the food at Stonewalls was top notch. The guy that founded and owned Stonewalls was a total ahole to work for, but he did the cheffing and I respected his passion for what he did. It was perfect or it was not served to a patron.
Stonewalls just remodeled with a full service bar and new interior. Took pics on Friday when it opened.

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Unread post by yosef13 » Tue May 09, 2017 6:48 am

NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
Great job by Gillin and Co to put this together.

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Unread post by /\PP ST/\TE GRAD 09 » Tue May 09, 2017 7:08 am

I had many interactions with Mack Brown and his wife Sally while working at Eseeola for two seasons. They were and still might be members at Eseeola. Great people, and Mack was nice enough to talk football (Specifically Vince Young) with me while I poured him a glass of wine. Wish I had the balls to convince my wife a $1,000 Gala is worth the trip to Boone. It be a nice event to attend.
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Unread post by Rekdiver » Tue May 09, 2017 7:22 am

yosef13 wrote:
NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
Great job by Gillin and Co to put this together.
Yes yes yes...this is the kind of stuff that is awesome and out of the box for us.

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Unread post by NewApp » Tue May 09, 2017 8:16 am

Rekdiver wrote:
yosef13 wrote:
NewApp wrote:$500.00 a seat minimum. Great lineup of speakers, though.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArtic ... =211575230

I couldn't figure out Bob Griese's connection to App, but finally found on Wikipedia that he has a house in Banner Elk.

Who on here knew that already?
Great job by Gillin and Co to put this together.
Yes yes yes...this is the kind of stuff that is awesome and out of the box for us.
It's a nice touch for the high rollers.
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Unread post by Rekdiver » Tue May 09, 2017 9:00 am

It's a good thing to have high rollers isn't it??

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Unread post by fjblair » Tue May 09, 2017 9:50 am

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I worked at Stonewalls in Banner Elk back the late eighties while I was finishing up at App. Don Shula was a Stonewalls' patron back then. Perhaps Don introduced Bob to the area. BTW, the food at Stonewalls was top notch. The guy that founded and owned Stonewalls was a total ahole to work for, but he did the cheffing and I respected his passion for what he did. It was perfect or it was not served to a patron.[/quote]

I grew up in Banner Elk and was going to say that Don Shula was one of the very early homeowners in Linville Ridge, he's been here a long time. Good point about Stonewalls-it was very, very good back in the day.

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Unread post by McLeansvilleAppFan » Tue May 09, 2017 10:10 am

AppinVA wrote:Shula lived(s) in Linville Ridge. I cleaned the carpets in his house once.
You were not in a carpet cleaning cult were you?

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Unread post by yosef13 » Tue May 09, 2017 10:30 am

Rekdiver wrote:It's a good thing to have high rollers isn't it??
In deed! App has some ballers and we need to cater to them asap, starting with the north end zone club level project. Also glad to see more names involved that aren't directly associated with the university, but do have ties to the area. There are a lot of wealthy people that own property in the high country, and we need to get them excited and involved with Appalachian too. Smart!

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Unread post by WVAPPeer » Tue May 09, 2017 10:57 am

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I worked at Stonewalls in Banner Elk back the late eighties while I was finishing up at App. Don Shula was a Stonewalls' patron back then. Perhaps Don introduced Bob to the area. BTW, the food at Stonewalls was top notch. The guy that founded and owned Stonewalls was a total ahole to work for, but he did the cheffing and I respected his passion for what he did. It was perfect or it was not served to a patron.[/quote]
Back in the 90s and then when our daughter was at APP '99-03, Stonewall's was always one of our dinner spots when in The High Country - it was always very good - Someone told me a couple of years ago that it was closed, haven't been up Banner Elk way for at least 10 years
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Unread post by NewApp » Tue May 09, 2017 10:59 am

Rekdiver wrote:It's a good thing to have high rollers isn't it??
Sure is, but it leaves the common middle income man out.
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Re: High Roller App Gala

Unread post by sixtoes9134 » Tue May 09, 2017 11:17 am

I worked at Elk River when I was a student at App. Griese was a king size jack ass. Shula, on the other hand, SUPER nice guy.

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