Thank you Mac

[Speedy Thomas]

Doubtful that players ever go on here, but my grandson attended Evan McPherson's one-day camp in Alabama and I'd like to publicly thank Mac for the personal attention he paid to him. My grandson is a soccer player who has never kicked a football in a game. Evan cleaned up his technique, provided pointers on kicking from the hash, and gave him plenty of encouragement. Mac shared that he too was a soccer player who didn't kick until his senior year. Maybe it's part of the job for players to be gracious to the public, but it doesn't always happen. It's good to know that guys we pull for as Bengals are nice humans.

[*psychdoctor*]

(Yesterday, 10:50 AM)Speedy Thomas Wrote: Doubtful that players ever go on here, but my grandson attended Evan McPherson's one-day camp in Alabama and I'd like to publicly thank Mac for the personal attention he paid to him.  My grandson is a soccer player who has never kicked a football in a game.  Evan cleaned up his technique, provided pointers on kicking from the hash, and gave him plenty of encouragement.  Mac shared that he too was a soccer player who didn't kick until his senior year.  Maybe it's part of the job for players to be gracious to the public, but it doesn't always happen.  It's good to know that guys we pull for as Bengals are nice humans.

Cool to hear Speedy.  Thanks for sharing.   Evan seems like a good dude.  

[*bfine32*]

And thanks for not going to massage parlors

[jj22]

Didn't he have a sister on this board at one time? A cousin or someone?

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(Yesterday, 10:50 AM)Speedy Thomas Wrote: Doubtful that players ever go on here, but my grandson attended Evan McPherson's one-day camp in Alabama and I'd like to publicly thank Mac for the personal attention he paid to him.  My grandson is a soccer player who has never kicked a football in a game.  Evan cleaned up his technique, provided pointers on kicking from the hash, and gave him plenty of encouragement.  Mac shared that he too was a soccer player who didn't kick until his senior year.  Maybe it's part of the job for players to be gracious to the public, but it doesn't always happen.  It's good to know that guys we pull for as Bengals are nice humans.

Cool stuff Speedy. Yeah, Evan always seemed like a really good dude, just hope he gets back to kicking like he did as a rookie.

Rare when a player shows his best stuff as a rookie and then falls off.

(Yesterday, 05:30 PM)jj22 Wrote: Didn't he have a sister on this board at one time? A cousin or someone?

That was Shayne Graham's sister. Been a while.

[jj22]

(Yesterday, 05:41 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Cool stuff Speedy. Yeah, Evan always seemed like a really good dude, just hope he gets back to kicking like he did as a rookie.

Rare when a player shows his best stuff as a rookie and then falls off.


That was Shayne Graham's sister. Been a while.

Oh yea, that was Graham's sister...

Well at least I remember it was a kicker...

[Luvnit2]

(Yesterday, 10:50 AM)Speedy Thomas Wrote: Doubtful that players ever go on here, but my grandson attended Evan McPherson's one-day camp in Alabama and I'd like to publicly thank Mac for the personal attention he paid to him.  My grandson is a soccer player who has never kicked a football in a game.  Evan cleaned up his technique, provided pointers on kicking from the hash, and gave him plenty of encouragement.  Mac shared that he too was a soccer player who didn't kick until his senior year.  Maybe it's part of the job for players to be gracious to the public, but it doesn't always happen.  It's good to know that guys we pull for as Bengals are nice humans.

Sadky, I have a different situation to report on and one of my favorite players. I have a grandson that is a sophmore in college and starting last summer, he was hired to go around the country and put on camps. He informed at the Chase camp, Chase was paid $200K for the camp (Iam sure Mac was paid a lot less) whixh I always they did it for the community and not for money.

My issue though is not that he was paid, my issue is he did nothing to meet or thank any of the staff members, he did not show up daily and when he did it was for short periods of time. I love Chase the player, but very disappointing to me he treated those doing the work at his camp so rudely.

So for Mac who likely made a lot less money, that is awesome he worked with your grandson and I would venture to guess Mac thanked his staff. On a side note, he said the company he works for turned down Josh Allen, he wanted $400K to show up for 3 hours of camp.

[Luvnit2]

(Yesterday, 10:50 AM)Speedy Thomas Wrote: Doubtful that players ever go on here, but my grandson attended Evan McPherson's one-day camp in Alabama and I'd like to publicly thank Mac for the personal attention he paid to him.  My grandson is a soccer player who has never kicked a football in a game.  Evan cleaned up his technique, provided pointers on kicking from the hash, and gave him plenty of encouragement.  Mac shared that he too was a soccer player who didn't kick until his senior year.  Maybe it's part of the job for players to be gracious to the public, but it doesn't always happen.  It's good to know that guys we pull for as Bengals are nice humans.

I hope your grandson at a minimum gets a chance to kick in college of a full ride.

[Luvnit2]

(Yesterday, 05:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: And thanks for not going to massage parlors

Mac or his grandson? 

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(Yesterday, 05:44 PM)jj22 Wrote: Oh yea, that was Graham's sister...

Well at least I remember it was a kicker...

Michael Johnson's Dad came on here back in the day as well, cool guy and a veteran.

[*bfine32*]

(Yesterday, 05:51 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Mac or his grandson? 

I didn't know Mac had a grandson.....

[Speedy Thomas]

(Yesterday, 05:50 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Sadky, I have a different situation to report on and one of my favorite players. I have a grandson that is a sophmore in college and starting last summer, he was hired to go around the country and put on camps. He informed at the Chase camp, Chase was paid $200K for the camp (Iam sure Mac was paid a lot less) whixh I always they did it for the community and not for money.

My issue though is not that he was paid, my issue is he did nothing to meet or thank any of the staff members, he did not show up daily and when he did it was for short periods of time. I love Chase the player, but very disappointing to me he treated those doing the work at his camp so rudely.

So for Mac who likely made a lot less money, that is awesome he worked with your grandson and I would venture to guess Mac thanked his staff. On a side note, he said the company he works for turned down Josh Allen, he wanted $400K to show up for 3 hours of camp.

That's a shame.  Totally different experience for my grandson.  Evan's camp was at his old high school in Alabama.  Only about 50 campers, $49 for a full day including lunch, and they got all kinds of swag.  I doubt Mac made very much and he was there all day.  My grandson spent the morning as a counselor before getting instruction in the afternoon.  At lunch he sat at a table with McPherson and his parents.

[Soonerpeace]

(Yesterday, 05:50 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Sadky, I have a different situation to report on and one of my favorite players. I have a grandson that is a sophmore in college and starting last summer, he was hired to go around the country and put on camps. He informed at the Chase camp, Chase was paid $200K for the camp (Iam sure Mac was paid a lot less) whixh I always they did it for the community and not for money.

My issue though is not that he was paid, my issue is he did nothing to meet or thank any of the staff members, he did not show up daily and when he did it was for short periods of time. I love Chase the player, but very disappointing to me he treated those doing the work at his camp so rudely.

So for Mac who likely made a lot less money, that is awesome he worked with your grandson and I would venture to guess Mac thanked his staff. On a side note, he said the company he works for turned down Josh Allen, he wanted $400K to show up for 3 hours of camp.

I don’t think it’s a huge surprise that Chase is like that. But the unknown is what was expected of him and whether the promoters were the driving force behind the camp. I’d suspect Chase wasn’t doing this camp for anything but a quick dollar. And doubt the camp was his idea. Several unknowns here. I’m not sure this is completely on Chase.