Next time you get a chance, think back to your 21st Birthday, if it was a tame night in with your best girlfriends maybe you should ask a friend...either way I'm sure it went something like this.."Well first we pre-gamed at my friend ____'s place, then we headed to the BAR (the one I've always wanted to go to but could never get in), then my friends proceeded to try to get me drunk by taking mass amounts of SHOTS...I tried to get to 21..but made it to 7 and was really tipsy (but I had a lot of beer too!!) I had the best time ever and made it home around 1:30." Okay, let me give you a little different take on it...10 meats and (2 girlfriends to of course include Tina) headed to
Atlantic City, New Jersey for the weekend. Any excuse to put this group in a Casino they will jump at the opportunity, this opportunity came with Mikey 'Parlay' Conte and my 21st Birthday (that happens to be 1 day apart - the 21st and 22nd of June). We packed into two rooms at the new
Borgata Hotel in AC and went right to work. By work I mean we grabbed a solid dinner and then established a 'low-post' at the most centralized hotel bar. The next couple hours went as suspected (an overall phenomenal time) until a very recognizable face walked past our 5-wide table...it was none other then the Washington Redskins All Pro Running Back
Clinton Portis. As a current
University of Miami student, Mikey Parlay yelled to the 'U' graduate "Hey Portis!!! The U Babbbyy the U!", while course displaying the Miami University
hand signal. Portis, of course, turns and displays the 'U' sign back and goes and sits at his table on the far side of the hotel bar. About 10 minutes later our huge party receives a round of shots at our table..could it be from the Portis table, after a solid thumbs up we realized it was. After another 5 minutes another round had shown up at our table and then another. Finally, Mikey 'Parlay' and I walk over to Portis' table to thank him for his generosity and tell him basically it is our 21st Birthday, we don't like the Redskins but we like him (no homo) and we are ready to party. The response went exactly like this "Listen, I don't get drunk...I get other people drunk and I will not stop buying drinks until someone in your group has to 'fall-out' back to their room" Boom...Let's Go!! Before we know it
Clinton is at our table (with his random crew) buying the most expensive bottles of Patron the bar had and having a 'too-good-to be true' time (The pictures show it all). To not get into too much detail the night ended with a select few accompanying the Pro-Bowler to the high roller
Blackjack Tables and hoping he "threw me a 1k chip." Also confirmed was the Eddy 'the Lebanese Mamba' Simone getting Portis' cell phone # and a promise they we would all do it again the next night after Clinton returned from
Kimbo Slices'
first professional MMA fight. (who by the way was also staying in the Borgata and I can personally say was the most intimidating person I've ever seen). I'm not going to say that the exact same situation happen the next night..but Portis DID call E. Simone after the Kimbo fight and this time he brought his college buddy
Lito Sheppard of the
Philadelphia Eagles. Amazing...simply...Amazing. There was also a little Blackjack played throughout the epic weekend. All in all, I would go on a limb and say it was the best-damn 21st Birthday a guy could ask for...period.
