James, Franco, Rachelle :: Sunflower Market, Lincoln Park, Chicago
James, Franco :: Sunflower Market, Lincoln Park, Chicago
So, I bumped into James in the Dairy Section and he said “Hey, Franco Harris is in Supplements!” Sounds like the start of a joke or something, right? Except it’s true!
Sunflower Market is a new organic store that is opening in Chicago tomorrow. Chicagoist got to go tonight to check it out. There were lots of free food samples and wine and beer. We were browsing around everything when James said “Hey, do you like football?” I said “yeh!” I thought he was going to talk about the upcoming season, but he said “Franco Harris is here. Do you know who he is?” I definitely recognized his name so I said, ” Yeh, did he play for the Packers?” because most of the time if I know who someone is it’s because they played for Green Bay. I remember James crinkled his face like “Are you high?” So James showed me where he was - in the supplements section.
I immediately recognized him and said “Oh! that’s that guy whose famous play is always in the top 10 plays of all time!” So we made our way over and introduced ourselves. I told Franco I liked his famous play, the Immaculate Reception. James told Franco that he was born in Pittsburgh the year that Franco played for the Steelers and went to the SuperBowl. He also told him that even though his family moved around while he was growing up, that he always remained a Steelers fan. So, of course, Franco was loving that. Me, I said, “I grew up in Wisconsin, ’nuff said” and Franco made some comment about Packer Backer or Cheesehead or something. I can’t remember now.
We took the top fanboy/girl photo and then James was shaking his hand to say “Nice to meet you” and telling Franco how excited his dad will be that they met, when the nice lady who took the first photo was like “Let me take a photo of you guys shaking hands!” But then she couldn’t figure out how to turn my camera back on and everything, so James and Franco just stood there holding hands for like 2 mintues. Of course, James is never washing that hand again!
Finally, we had to find out why Franco Harris was at the opening of an organic supermarket in Chicago, right? Apparently, now he’s into organic breads and some of the breads his company, Super Bakery, makes are sold at Sunflower Market.
See also:
» Chicagoist post on Sunflower Market
» Chicagoist’s photos of Sunflower Market
10 responses so far ↓
1 James // Aug 29, 2006 at 10:01 pm
“the year that Franco played for the Steelers and went to the SuperBowl” makes it sound like he/they only went once. The Steelers won four Super Bowls while he played for them. Four! FOUR!!!1!11!1!
The URL of this post is “post_38″. Is that the play they were running when he made the Immaculate Reception?
I’m still riding an I-met-Franco-Harris adreneline rush. Can you tell?!?!?1!11!!!?
2 rachelle // Aug 29, 2006 at 10:05 pm
more exclamation points please! also, i don’t know why it did that in the URL, but that would be super creepy if that was the play #!
3 Sean // Aug 30, 2006 at 8:54 am
Oh my GOD!! You met FRANCO!!!! He is my hero. He also went to Penn State, won four Superbowls, and by all reports, a really nice guy.
4 rachelle // Aug 30, 2006 at 9:25 am
yeh, he was nice.. and really soft-spoken
5 'Duck // Aug 30, 2006 at 9:39 am
Looks like he could still suit up and play a couple downs, too.
6 Crissy // Aug 30, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Nice shots. Lucky you! I’m passing this on to my co-worker, who’s a Raiders fan. ;o)
7 Jeff // Aug 30, 2006 at 6:06 pm
That’s too funny: “I like your famous play!” I’m not sure what I’d ever say to Franco, but it wouldn’t be as cool as that.
8 Joel // Aug 31, 2006 at 10:27 am
That dude’s got the strongest JAW I’ve ever seen. Holy crap.
9 tien // Aug 31, 2006 at 12:28 pm
i’m sure franco washed that hand right away. creepy fanboy sweat and all.
10 John Sturm // Sep 1, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Hey guys. This is John from Sunflower. Franco has got to be one of the coolest guys I’ve met.I had dinner with him after the store opening. He told me all about the ‘Immaculate Reception’ and then proceeded to apply it to lessons of life. By the time he was done, my brother and I were ready to climb a mountain!
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